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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
Even some of the more innocuous day care spread
diseases pose the risk of dangerous complications. Ear infections
contracted in a day care center often require the placement of drainage
tubes (tympanostomy tubes) in the inner ear. Ear infection results can
also result in mild hearing loss with consequent difficulties in
psychological and social development. The Hemophilus influenza type B
virus often spread in the day care center usually causes relatively little
harm, but in some cases it leads to epiglottitis or
childhood meningitis.
And although the cytomegalovirus (CMV) poses no risk to the day care
children who pick it up at significantly higher rates than do home-reared
children, pregnant mothers with day care children are exposing their unborn
children to an elevated risk of CMV-related birth defects affecting vision,
brain development, hearing and neuromuscular functioning.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
Researchers offer a good
overall measure of the overall severity of day care-transmitted disease when
they report that the hospitalization rate for day care children stands at
four-and-one-half times that seen among home-reared children.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
To be sure, day care is not the first social
institution in which physicians have seen frequent outbreaks of disease,
but the social institution to which physicians now find themselves turning
for epidemiological parallels to what they see in the day care center is
deeply troubling. In a 2000 study of Streptococcus pneumoniae,
French scholars perceive a fundamental similarity between the way disease
spreads in a day care center and the way it spreads in an orphanage.
This medically derived parallel receives unexpected confirmation from the
distinguished cultural historian Jacques Barzun when he puzzles over the
curious social developments that have given the modern world "two
novelties: the day care center and the
semi-orphan."
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
The trouble is that neither day care providers
nor medical authorities can do very much that will help. One medical
authority resignedly concludes that the spread of disease is inevitable in
any context that brings together large numbers of diapered, toy-sucking,
drooling, messy-eating children. This authority sees no way to prevent
germs from being transmitted in an environment in which the typical day care
child puts "a hand or object in the mouth every three minutes."
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