page_title: Infection in childcare
hierarchical_section_title: Infection in childcare
caption_attribution_description: Youngsters at the Higher Horizons Day Care Center in Bailey Crossroads, VA., receive healthy food and snacks on October 25, 2006 under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Nutrition Service’s (FNS) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and Head Start program. CACFP plays a vital role in improving the quality of day care for children and elderly adults by making care more affordable for many low-income families. Each day, 3.2 million children receive nutritious meals and snacks through CACFP. USDA photo by Ken Hammond.
context_page_description: Infection in childcare is the spread of infection during childcare, typically because of contact among children in daycare or school. This happens when groups of children meet in a childcare environment, and there any individual with an infectious disease may spread it to the entire group. Commonly spread diseases include influenza-like illness and enteric illnesses, such as diarrhea among babies using diapers. It is uncertain how these diseases spread, but hand washing reduces some risk of transmission and increasing hygiene in other ways also reduces risk of infection.
  Due to social pressure, parents of sick children in childcare may be willing to give unnecessary medical care to their children when advised to do so by childcare workers and even if it is against the advice of health care providers. In particular, children in childcare are more likely to be given antibiotics than children outside of childcare.
context_section_description: Infection in childcare is the spread of infection during childcare, typically because of contact among children in daycare or school. This happens when groups of children meet in a childcare environment, and there any individual with an infectious disease may spread it to the entire group. Commonly spread diseases include influenza-like illness and enteric illnesses, such as diarrhea among babies using diapers. It is uncertain how these diseases spread, but hand washing reduces some risk of transmission and increasing hygiene in other ways also reduces risk of infection.
  Due to social pressure, parents of sick children in childcare may be willing to give unnecessary medical care to their children when advised to do so by childcare workers and even if it is against the advice of health care providers. In particular, children in childcare are more likely to be given antibiotics than children outside of childcare.
caption: Infections are less likely to spread when children and adults wash hands often, especially before eating
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