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For example, if you’re changing a diaper or helping your child use the toilet or wiping your child’s nose, you may come into contact with germs. The best way to protect your child is with vaccines against these infections.Īn adult can also spread germs from one child to another by indirect contact without realizing it. Chickenpox and measles viruses spread this way. These germs can infect people who are not close to the infected person and may even be in a different room. This happens when germs stay in the air and are carried around on air currents. These germs don’t stay in the air and don’t travel over long distances.

Droplets travel through the air and can reach another person who is close by (less than a metre away). Germs in the nose and throat can spread through droplets when the infected person coughs or sneezes without a tissue to cover the mouth and nose. Some germs can stay on countertops or toys for many hours. The germs can cause infection when that person-who now has germs on their hands-touches their eyes, nose or mouth.

Indirect contact with an infected person, who may spread germs by touching or mouthing an object such as a toy, a doorknob, or a used tissue that is later touched by another person.

Direct contact can include kissing, touching or holding hands with a person who has an illness.

Direct contact with a person who has germs in the nose, mouth, eyes, stool or on the skin.

Germs usually spread in one of the following ways: As children get older, they get sick less often.

The good news is that most of these infections are mild and won’t last very long. Most young children will have 8 to 10 colds a year. That’s because young children are exposed to many new germs (viruses or bacteria) and haven’t yet built up enough defenses against them. It may seem like your child is always sick.