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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p
73-74 |
Exposure to Infection is Not Beneficial
Since it is common knowledge that the immune system can produce resistance
to a specific agent after exposure, parents often wonder if some exposure
is good for their children. This misunderstanding is a holdover from the
days prior to the advent of vaccinations, when certain childhood diseases
like chicken pox and measles were virtually inevitable. Looking for a
silver lining in the cloud of illness, parents comforted themselves with the
knowledge that one disease had been checked off the list; at least their
child would not get that one again. Today we have vaccines to prevent or
lessen the risk of (serious) diseases such as polio, diphtheria, whooping
cough, tetanus, measles, mumps, and rubella. Children can enjoy protection
without actually getting sick with the (dangerous) disease.
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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p
77-78 |
Faced with such an outbreak (of a contagious disease) and the responsibility
of protecting the community, health officials (may) consider closing the day
care center. But the economic and social impact on parents and day care
(business would be) substantial. (The day care director will protest that)
"All the parents will think the center is responsible. We will lose all our
enrollment!" Parents operating on tight schedules (would not be) exactly
overjoyed at the prospect either.
(To make matters worse) This becomes part of a widening circle of problems
in controlling the initial outbreak, according to a 1981 CDC (Centers of
Disease Control) report. Infected children who are asymptomatic* are put in other centers due to a closing or because of
parents' concern that their child might become infected in a center that
obviously has a problem. This, of course, spreads the disease to children in
the new center, day care workers, and families, and so it goes, on and on.
*asymptomatic - showing no symptoms of disease
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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 79 |
Exposure (to disease) works both ways between day care workers and children,
with the possibility of (spreading) to the children's families and to the
day care worker's family as well. Day care workers typically receive very
low pay, have inadequate sick leave, and have no health coverage provided.
The result is that sick (contagious) staff members will frequently show up
for work at the center.
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