Originally Posted by Unregistered:
Sorry to break this to you, but it's a KNOWN, SCIENTIFIC FACT that kids in daycare get sick much more often and with more virulent strains than children that are not in daycare. Even at doctors appointments, they will tell you that a child in daycare has an extra risk factor of more sickness.
You're right, it is a known scientific fact that daycare kids do get sicker. That doesn't mean it's the providers fault though. The states set up requirements for parents and providers to follow as far as when a sick child can be in daycare and when they cannot. It is both the parents and providers' duties to make sure that a child too sick doesn't end up in daycare whether it's the parent calling in sick, the provider turning the child away at the door, or the provider calling the parent when the child's symptoms worsen to that point. Though likely the other children in care have already been exposed to the illness.
Mac60 has a great point about the parents bringing things home from work too; especially those parents who work at schools, clinics, stores and other places where there are constant interaction with all types of healthy and unhealthy people.
So, I guess the best way to combat this is for mom (or dad or both) to stay home with their children so they don't get sick. They better home school the children too.