Childcare Specialists Requires Medical Degree

You may have read my previous post that talked about some of the severe allergies that are becoming more prevalent among children. A few days ago I was reading a CNN article My son's food allergies: danger every day and what struck me was not what the parents had to go through, but what daycare providers would have to cope with to deal with a child with severe allergies. Where young folks with little training would have at one time been fully prepared to care for a 3 year old with just a little babysitting background, now they have to be able to deliver a shot of epinephrine. How do child care providers cope with the rule rather than the exception that they will one day have to rush a child in their care to the hospital.

Will day care providers of the future have some sort of medical training? Will there be computer programs that help coach these specialists to diagnose when to take their young charges into the hospital.