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Family Research Abstract of the Week: Babies
with Bugs
The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society,
World Congress of Families, worldcongress.org, 21-Nov-01 |
Pharmacists have few more regular customers than
parents who choose to put their young children in day care. For these are
people who make very frequent purchases of antibiotics.
...researchers at the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the University
of Aarhus recently scrutinized data...and obtained very precise risk
estimates...
...In these risk estimates, readers may see a sobering warning as to the
dangers of substituting day care for parental care.
Category =
Disease |
Family Research Abstract of the Week: Babies
with Bugs
The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society,
World Congress of Families, worldcongress.org, 21-Nov-01 |
Comparing children cared for in their
own homes with children cared for in day care, the Danish scholars
discovered that "enrollment in a day-care setting doubled a child's risk of
receiving a prescription" for antibiotics...
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Disease |
Family Research Abstract of the Week: Babies
with Bugs
The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society,
World Congress of Families, worldcongress.org, 21-Nov-01 |
In a country as reliant upon day care as
Denmark, the finding of sharply elevated antibiotic use among day-care
children alarms the researchers for several compelling reasons. First, the
use of antibiotics is "a morbidity parameter," indicative of the
"increased risk of infectious disease in day-care centers." Second, the
infections for which antibiotics are necessary "may give rise to
long-term complications, such as mastoiditis and hearing loss after otitis
media." Third, "increased transmission of infectious agents [among
day-care children] may also result in excess illness among parents, day-care
workers, and other children." Finally, since "use of antibiotics is
associated with antimicrobial resistance," day-care
centers may be helping to incubate deadly new strains of super-bugs.
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