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I just came across an article in The New York Times that said children in day care are less likely to suffer from asthma than those kept at home. Click here to read it.

Does your child have asthma? Does he/she go to day care or stay at home?

None of my three children have asthma and all three were home with me until they were 4 years old and started pre-k, (well my youngest is 3 but she will be home with me until pre-k ). On the other hand, I do have asthma. I have severe asthma but I am not sure if it is because I stayed home or not when I was little. I think it is more because my mom smoked around my sister and I when we were growing up. I didn't get diagnosed until I was 17 years old. I have to use a steriod inhaler twice a day and I also carry a 'rescue inhaler' around with me at all times.

I wonder who the sponsor of that research was....

My kids do not have asthma and have been in a small home babysitter (6 or less kids) or home with me since they were 8 weeks old. They have never even stepped foot into a daycare facility. And our first babysitter had a bunch of cats which you would think trigger asthma. Now, my oldest and I are both so allergic to cats (she wasn't when she was there...go figure) that I'm starting to think about sneezing just writing about them, but not to the point of an asthma attack.

HA! That's strange, my daughter does have asthma and she WAS in daycare! I worked in a daycare for 2 years and over half of the children there HAD asthma!! A lot of the children started in daycare as soon as they were old enough, which at our center was 6 weeks, the director made a few exceptions on some occasions and went with 4 weeks!

It's so crazy to hear all your stories compared to the reserach in the article. We don't seem to be fitting the statistics...I was kept at home as a child and don't have asthma, but my mom also watched other children so maybe I don't count.

I believe, like too many studies, this one will be debunked soon.

There is thefact that genetics play a huge role in whether kids get it or not. The environmental factors are secondary, according to every article on asthma I've ever read.

Additionally, what would explain the HUGE rise in asthma cases when day care enrollment goes up every year in this country? With so many kids in daycare, why are more and more kids developing asthma?????

I just hope parents aren't quick to use this study to justify placing children with strangers when they have the fiscal means to raise their own children.

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