Daycares can be germ factories. Can we do more?

Getting sick more often in the first few years of life can have flow-on effects throughout childhood, according to a new study.

Children who caught more infections before the age of three went on to get sick more often, and use more antibiotics.

It raises the question – should we be doing more to protect toddlers, rather than treating recurrent colds as a part of growing up?

Guest/s

• Dr Linny Kimly Phuong, a paediatric infectious diseases physician based in Melbourne

References

• Burden of Infections in Early Life and Risk of Infections and Systemic Antibiotics Use in Childhood