Over the years,
there has been a theory that children who attend daycare tend to develop more
health problems; things like colds, ear infections, and throat
infections. In the first few years of life, they can have more problems
than the children who stay home, and it makes sense because there is an earlier
exposure to problems. The theory also suggests that as the children get older,
they have fewer infections and problems than the kids who stayed home and are
more likely to be exposed to the various problems. A new study of 4,000
Dutch children from birth to eight years showed children who started daycare
early were twice as likely to experience wheezing in the first year of life
than those who didn't go to daycare. By age five, daycare kids were
slightly less likely to wheeze than non-daycare kids. By eight, the
effects evened out and daycare attendants had no association with the wheezing.
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