Sanitation Tips for Parents on the Go

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Hi! This is Patti Billings. I am a certified pediatric nurse practitioner on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this clip, we are going to talk little bit about how to keep sanitation on the go and I think the wonderful new hand held hand sanitizers are the best thing. You can send one with your child, there should probably be one on the bus or the vehicle that they are using for transportation. Children who are sick should not be going on field trips because being away from their usual place of childcare, if they get sick, it’s very difficult for them to be taken care of and for parents to pick them up or get medical care if needed. There should be a first aid kit that goes with each child or each group that takes children on field trips and that should have basic supplies like you know, Band-Aids, something to clean a wound with. In home daycares, often children are taken on excursions with the provider on errands that they need to run such as going to the grocery store. Shopping carts are hazards in two ways, #1, the handle that the child puts their hand on is full of germs and she should take some kind of a wipe, a disinfectant wipe and wipe that off before the child is placed there, also shopping carts are dangerous because, they tip over and children fall out of them, so the children shouldn’t be left unsupervised in the shopping cart. I think the number of children that the day care provider is providing for should directly influence how many errands that she runs with them because as the number of children goes up, the number of accidents go up and these are primarily falling accidents, children who are left unsupervised and get into something that they shouldn’t such as at the grocery store where they might get into medicine bottles or other containers that might not be healthy for them. I think the number of children that you would want to take depends directly on their age. A child under one who is not as mobile probably needs more supervision. Although a 1-3 year old needs quite a bit of supervision, if they are in the grocery store or at the mall because they wander of; they get interested in things and they wander of. So, I think the number of children that should be taken on an errand is about as many as you can fit in the shopping cart, so that you know where they are.

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