Germs Against Infections

Make sure you teach your children correctly how to wash their hands using hot water and soap. After that, they can do it individually. Hands need always washing after using the restroom, before eating, and after going out in public. Children should also be educated not to let their hands or other objects in or close to their

As a childminder you have to make sure that if you have a child with an infectious disease that you don’t let the child get in contact with other children. This sometimes means asking the parents to keep their child at home.

Preventing the spread of the infection within the preschool should be their top priority, and they should be monitoring children who look as if they have any contagious rashes or sores. Any washcloths used to wash a child who has any type of lesion on their skin should not be used on any other children, and a new washcloth should be used each time skin is cleaned (PubMed Health 2010). Preschool staff should be mindful of doing routine surface cleaning/decontamination of tables and toys with disinfectant should be done on a daily basis due to risk of

Take care to keep water and soap out of her eyes and ears and clean her face and the insides of her ears with a sponge or washcloth.

Children rely on the decisions that are made by responsible individuals in their lives including parents, caretakers, and other authorities such as teachers. Because children depend on others so heavily, health issues that affect children such as contracting the influenza virus or the flu should be discussed with the adults in their lives. Every year a new strain of the influenza virus affects the health of school-aged children causing a potential health risk to themselves and others around them. The spread of the influenza virus in

For a child to start public school, he/she needed a dental check-up, a physical and, most importantly, vaccinations. Although the decision of having a child inoculated is easy for some, it may be more difficult for others. Having children receive vaccinations can erase disease, save lives, and protect.

Children are a vulnerable group within a population with respect to diseases, which then increases their susceptibility to various illnesses, as adults generally have a stronger immune system as compared to children. Steens, Beasley, Tsui, and Lee (1975) argued that children are more prone to be a carrier of diseases than adults (as cited in Anderson and May, 1985). With that being said, the focus remains on vaccinating children as the majority are in school for a great amount of time where they are in proximity of one another, the continuous sharing of items, and are usually inconsistent with hand hygiene. Under those circumstances, Anderson and May (1985) found that in children aged 5-15 infection rates would increase as a result of close contact within schools. Children who do not receive scheduled vaccinations put themselves, as well as others at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases, as infants who are too young of age to receive vaccines, children, elderly, and community members who have compromised immune systems most vulnerable to acquiring vaccine-preventable diseases. Omer, Salmon, Orenstein, DeHart, Halsey (2009) argued that outbreaks of diseases regularly begins with individuals who refuse vaccinations, as it spreads within communities and other populations. Combining these factors, there is a high possibility of outbreaks in schools of life threatening illnesses such as measles, mumps, and polio that unfortunately has taken many lives retrospectively. For

Objectives: • Every child will understand that hand washing is important to their health. • Every child will know the importance of taking care of their own bodies. Materials: • The book Germs Are Not for Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick, • Spray bottle with water • glitter • Water paint • Paint brushes • White paper

Children are one of the most at risk groups. With constantly being around other kids, the virus can easily spread from child to child. Their immune systems aren’t the strongest, which is why it is so easy to spread. No parent can completely keep

Employees should report contagious illnesses to their managers. Since we regularly work with children, it is imperative that we take their health as well as the health of our employees into great consideration.

Along with protecting people around your child, you also want to be protected too because you could contract the disease as well and in turn, miss days at work. If your

Immunization for school age children is an integral aspect of early healthcare and is a reliable method of developing resistance to specific, potentially life threatening diseases. Immunization, which is also known as vaccination, is crucial as it not only protects the immunized individual but also the surrounding community members (Grace, 2006). When a child is not vaccinated, there is an increased risk to develop symptoms of a particular disease, which can result in an unfortunate and preventable death. Additionally, while infected, the child can expose others to risk, be they friends, strangers, or family members. When successfully vaccinated, children are more capable of resisting a disease, preventing the initial infection. Additionally, even when an infection does occur, the immunized child’s experience is less serious, the infection lasting for less time as the body mounts a prepared and successful defense, reducing the infection’s ability to effectively reproduce and spread to others.

It is very important when children sick and identify the sing and symptoms of ill, must take an appropriate decision to the welfare of a child, if a child tell a teacher about that he/she unwell it is up to school to take a decision whether they sent to home or not. Sometime just sit down sit down for a while before feeling well and returning to class. School must take right action in a right way and maintain a clean and healthy environment for the pupil. Therefore, a child should be sent to home if they are ill and show the signs of illness. Cold and flu is common illness in winter and not every child has with cough should be sent home. However, a child has persistent cough can be disruptive in the classroom and it may advised that they are sent home.

Recently an increase in the Shigella, a bacteria, outbreak has been recorded in New Mexico in Lea, Chaves, and Eddy Counties, increasing from 140 to 196 confirmed and probable cases. Mostly affecting younger children, pre-schoolers through elementary, due to the fact that they are not as cleanly as well as being exposed to other sick kids at school. Exposure and Symptoms can last from 1-7 days and an infected person can be a carrier for the bacteria for up to a month after symptoms have ceased. The NMDOH is encouraging parents that “if your child is sick please do not send them to school and get them tested as soon as possible.” Ways to decrease the chance of contracting shigella include washing your hands often, make sure you are using

My personal experience with this topic is based on my job as a childcare provider, mother of two active boys and now also grandmother of 3 active children. We do not have a sterile environment. We allow and encourage messy play regularly both indoor and out. Our children are regularly exposed to all kinds of germs from each other. As infants, they may seem to have a perpetual cold but by the time they reach about 18 months they are rarely ever sick and we have no children who have developed allergies or asthma in the 14 years we have been in business. None of my children or grandchildren suffer from asthma or dermatitis either. On the other side of the topic, my assistant is a bit of a compulsive hand washer and does not like to?get dirty. She says she has always been like that. She has asthma, is very stressed when it comes to dealing with snotty noses and kids playing in the dirt and sand. She suffers from a high level of anxiety daily due to her germ-a-phobic tendencies?and she tends to get sick nearly once a month.