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Anonymous wrote:Your daycare really won't take a kid that just has a runny nose? We get a COVID test and send them back the next day. Our daycare and preschool don't seem to mind at all.

Clear runny nose is okay, any hint of green or yellow snot and Covid test it is.

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Anonymous wrote:I know some people will roll their eyes at this, but check on the foods she’s eating and see if you can tweak it so she has a more robust immune system. I know daycare comes with a lot of illness, but I do strongly believe that you can help prevent constant illness. A lot of kids eat a ton of dairy and parents force milk—-dairy is known to thicken mucus in some people and so cutting it out may help her be less snotty at least. Sugar can weaken the immune system. So limiting candy and processed sugary foods can really help with the little ones who seem to catch everything that’s going around.

Little to no exposure to all germs for over 18 months through isolation and masking in such young children is why there is such a surge in viruses now. Diet will not change that.

That is why I felt OK sending my kid to daycare. We all built up our immune system so if we caught COVID we may not have been as sick.

I think both of you are completely incorrect on how immunity works.

Infectious disease experts say there are a number of factors fueling this hot, sneezy summer. While pandemic lockdowns protected many people from Covid-19, our immune systems missed the daily workout of being exposed to a multitude of microbes back when we commuted on subways, spent time at the office, gathered with friends and sent children to day care and school.

Although your immune system is likely as strong as it always was, if it hasn’t been alerted to a microbial intruder in a while, it may take a bit longer to get revved up when challenged by a pathogen again, experts say. And while some viral exposures in our past have conferred lasting immunity, other illnesses may have given us only transient immunity that waned as we were isolating at home.

“Frequent exposure to various pathogens primes or jazzes up the immune system to be ready to respond to that pathogen,” said Dr. Paul Skolnik, an immunovirologist and chair of internal medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. “If you’ve not had those exposures, your immune system may be a little slower to respond or doesn’t respond as fully, leading to greater susceptibility to some respiratory infections and sometimes longer or more protracted symptoms.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/well/live/colds-summer-immunity.html