Charlottetown daycares are following the increasing trend of using hand sanitizers to help prevent the spreading of germs.
The Eastern School district began installing hand sanitizers in their schools early this year and daycare centres appear to be doing the same.
Staff and students of Parkdale Sherwood Head Start Kindergarten and Childcare are using sanitizers as well as a lot of hand washing, said education co-ordinator Carrie Marshall.
“However, we send them home if they do get sick.”
Little Wonders Child Care Centre also uses hand sanitizers, to an extent, said owner-operator Elizabeth Jeffery.
Parents can use the ones at the front door and the teachers use them rather than keep running to the bathroom to wash their hands.
The children use anti-bacterial soap, because the sanitizer dries out their skin, said Jeffery.
Little Wonders also uses a sanitizer used in resturaunt kitchens called D 10 on the toys, chairs, tables and doorknobs. They also put some toys in the dishwasher to disinfect and wash them.
Both daycares say they have very few students out with the flu.
Little Wonders has three out of 50 students sick and it is still taking preventitive measures, such as making the children sleep head to foot, so fewer germs are spread.
“We are taking all the protocalls for H1N1,” said Jeffery.
