SUNDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Alcohol-based hand sanitizers, found in drug and grocery stores everywhere, do a good job of preventing gastrointestinal infections from spreading within the home, according to a new study.
As reported in the current issue of Pediatrics, the five-month study involved 292 Boston-area families, each of whom had at least one child in day care and were therefore at high risk for common respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.
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