Preventing Infections in Children

To parents, it often seems as if children have one infection after another. Especially for children in day care or preschool, it is a constant battle to deal with Infections and related symptoms. No matter how careful parents and staff members are about keeping surfaces clean, children seem to suffer many bouts of illness each year. In fact, most young children have six to eight upper respiratory illnesses and two to three gastrointestinal illnesses each year. If the child is in day care, he or she may have even more episodes of an infection resulting in illness. As children get past early childhood, their immune system strengthens and the number of illnesses is reduced.