All Germs Are Not Bad Germs

06/01/2004

"It is love that fashions us into the fullness of our being-not our look, not our work, not our wants, not our achievements, not our parents, not our status, not our dreams. These are all the fodder and the filler, the navigating fuels of our lives; but it is love: who we love, how we love, why we love and that we love which ultimately shapes us." - Daphne Rose Kingma

All Germs Are Not Bad Germs

In her January, 2001 article in Child Care Information Exchange, "Maintaining a Sanitary Child Care Environment: Six Tips for Germ Control," Susan Aronson, MD, offers this advice...

"Normally, we share the environment with a balanced population of bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi. Let's just call them all germs. Our bodies maintain control over the growth of the germs that co-inhabit the world with us. Healthy people usually resist invasion by germs pretty well, fight those that get past the body's barriers, and repair any damage they do. Some germs are better able to get around our defenses than others. Fortunately, less harmful germs fight for territory and help control those that are more harmful.

"Very young children have not yet developed immunity to many of the germs that they encounter. It takes more time for the body to mount a response and kill off a type of infection that is being met for the first time. Control of infectious disease risks is especially important for them."

This article has been developed into an Exchange Out of the Box Training Kit that you can utilize to run a training session on germ control for your staff. To view this Training Kit and others, go to http://mail.ccie.com/go/eed/0202

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