NANA SAYS KEEP SICK CHILDREN AWAY FROM OTHERS

Sick people especially children can be contagious. Besides a day at home in bed sleeping with plenty of fluids is still a good remedy to help a cold or  flu bug with lots of good hand washing. Now with a fringe group of parents not vaccinating their children, healthy children could be vulnerable to diseases like measles. Why someone would risk their child getting measles with the complications it can bring, beats me! Tetanus is not contagious but can be fatal without a vaccination. The dirt in the Ontario soil is rampant with germs. Only takes  a little cut  for germs to enter the body!! Little children and big people need to take care when feeling unwell. New babies should not be around  others who are ill. The first year makes them more vulnerable so common courtesy says keep sick children and adults away. Give those babies time to be vaccinated! With the eradication of certain diseases due to vaccination in our part of the world, travel has made Canadians more vulnerable as could be seen in the Ebola virus. Thankfully there are researchers in our country working on a vaccination and hopefully a cure. The first line of defense does remain. If the germs do not travel from person to person then with a closed door so to speak, less people become infected. Teaching children to wash hands and cough and sneeze into their sleeve continues to be good advice. Too bad more adults do not heed this practice.