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Article: Day care and illness.
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- July 1, 1990
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Day Care and Illness It's well known that a child's chances of getting sick increase once he begins to attend day care. A recent study at Johns Hopkins University looked at which kids get more gastrointestinal illnesses (stomach pain, diarrhea, etc.) once they start day care.
Children under three-years-old, from low-income families, living in crowded households, and nonwhite had the greatest chance of catching a GI illness. Five percent of the ...