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Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 10 |
"Children in day care...are responsible for
many community disease outbreaks," writes a group of family physicians.
For example, 40 percent of community outbreaks of
the serious infection hepatitis A can be traced to day care centers.
Among child care centers who admit children under the age of two, 50 percent
experience outbreaks of hepatitis A. This infection has a 28-day
incubation period and is often asymptomatic* in young children.
asymptomatic - shows no evidence or symptoms
of disease
Category = Disease |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 10 |
The health concern that is most prevalent in day
care centers is otitis media, or ear infections. This is one common
problem that the medical literature clearly and convincingly associates with
increased day care attendance. One study of 244 children found
that 21 percent of the children in day care had to be hospitalized for
myringotomy and tube placement as a result of ear infections compared to
only 3 percent of the children cared for at home. Another study
analyzed the tympanograms of three-year-olds and found that only 52 percent
of children attending day care had normal tympanograms compared to 74
percent of those cared for at home.
Although some dismiss ear infections as garden-variety childhood illnesses
that are to be expected, the increase in their occurrence associated with
child care should not be viewed too sanguinely*.
In keeping with a risk factor conception of day care, it appears that
repeated ear infections may be another factor that is detrimental to a
child's healthy emotional development.
*sanguinely - cheerfully
Category = Disease |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 10 |
Epidemiologists say (the rise of
antibiotic-resistant organisms) is a large and growing problem:
[E]scalated use of child-care facilities has
had a marked effect on the epidemiology of infectious diseases in young
children. Children attending child care are at high risk for
respiratory and gastronintestinal tract illnesses. The high
prevalence of infectious diseases in the child care setting is accompanied
by high usage of antibiotics, which in turn has resulted in spread of
antibiotic-resistant organisms.
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