Although my 2 year old son has never been to daycare, my understanding is that it is a breeding ground for various exotic germs, as half-sick infectious kids are routinely comingled with yet uninfected kids, and the practice disinfecting surfaces and washing hands is often abbreviated. My wife, who has considerable training in biochemistry and immunology, is of opinion that constant exposure to pathogens is counterproductive, as the immune system becomes depleted and the body becomes unable to effectively fight off new infections.
The natural solution is to keep the child out of day care for a while, and give the immune system a break. But for many people this is not feasible.
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Originally Posted by sillygirl
mine was sick a while back with some stomach something. AWFUL diarrhea for two weeks. Doc wouldn't do anything about it til "about fifteen days". WORST two weeks of my life. No sleep, nothing I could do for him, and he POOPED IN THE TUB!!!! *shudder* Thankfully, my SO felt bad for me being home with him all day and cleaned it out. Then I got it, my mom got it, and my brother got it. Cool, huh? 
I feel awful for you. I hate even having to get medicine in Aric's mouth, let alone thinking of holding him down! My cousin's kid had to be held down for some kind of xray a while back. They had to wrap him in a sheet at the hospital and hold him for a nurse to place an IV, and the doc graciously offered to knock him out for whatever scan they were doing. |
We had something similar. Although each of got sick for about 4 days each, not 2 weeks. My 2 year son had this, and I got it after, and our nanny got it also. My wife learned that many of her friends' families were afflicted by same illness. Then I read about a large norovirus outbreak in our area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/id_norovirusFS.html
http://cbs2.com/health/health_story_091212309.html