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Posted: Thu 9:48 PM, Sep 22, 2016 |
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Updated: Thu 10:53 PM, Sep 22, 2016
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Dr. Nadia Cabrilo remembers her aboriginal canicule as a pediatrician and the aboriginal times she saw accouchement with astringent rashes and infections, acquired by actuality larboard in a decrepit childhood too long.
It wasn't that their parents were apathy them, she said, but that they bare to amplitude their accumulation of diapers as far as they could, because they artlessly could not allow any more.
"I acquainted so bad I would accompany in my added diapers from home and aloof accord them to patients if they bare them," she said.
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As abounding as one in three families civic struggles to allow abundant diapers for their babies. The boilerplate amount for a one-month accumulation is about $100. The affair will booty the civic spotlight Sept. 26 through Oct. 2 during Childhood Need Awareness Week.
In Shawnee County, Dr. Cabrilo, who practices at Cotton-O'Neil Pediatrics, uses her affection for the affair by volunteering with Junior League Topeka's Childhood Depot. Since abounding accessible abetment programs don't awning amount of diapers, JLT launched the Childhood Depot in 2012. Last year, it broadcast added than 100,000 diapers through Let's Advice and Community Action.
"This is a huge account in Shawnee County," Dr. Cabrilo said.
Dr. Cabrilo says a apple-pie childhood is about added than aloof acceptable hygiene. A little one larboard in a decrepit childhood for too continued can advance a childhood adventurous - and worse.
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"They can get accessible sores, which can account added infection, which can additionally advance to urinary amplitude infections," she said. "If there's a lot of stooling - which babies account a lot - you can get infections with that as well."
Plus, it's no fun to sit in a bedraggled diaper, so kids get fussy, which can add to a fatigued situation.
"(An annoyed baby) leads to added accent on the parent. You accord with added issues with neglect, abuse," Dr. Cabrilo said. "So, although it seems like such a baby affair to alpha with, this can snowball into added issues."
While abounding bodies catechism why families don't use bolt diapers as a reusable alternative, Dr. Cabrilo said it's not that simple. She said there is a ample up-front investment, which abounding families cannot afford. Plus, bolt diapers crave common laundering. Abounding lower-income families do not own a washer and dryer, and may not be able to allow the added amount of a laundromat, while Dr. Cabrilo says a simple duke abrasion and line-drying at home may not be able to appropriately acquit decrepit diapers.
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Right now, JLT's Childhood Depot can alone advice 100 families a month, with 50 diapers per child. But it's a start.
"Even a little bit helps. It takes the added accountability up," Dr. Cabrilo said.
Collecting added diapers may accessible the aperture to advice added families. To mark Childhood Need Awareness Week, seven Topeka locations are ambience up appropriate accumulating sites Sept. 26-30. Bodies may bead off new or partially acclimated bales of disposable diapers, sizes bairn to six at:
Pleasant Hill UMC, 4525 NW Button Rd.Countryside UMC, 3221 SW Burlingame Rd.Manchester Adolescent Care, 5221 SW 15th Ct.Security Benefit Academy, 1 Security Benefit PlaceChrist the King, SW 25th/Wanamaker Rd.Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4775 SW 21st St.Fellowship Bible Church, SW 10th/Urish Rd.
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In addition, JLT's Childhood Depot has three abiding accumulating sites:USD 501 Parents as Teachers, 2331 SW Topeka Blvd.Kirk & Cobb Realtors, SW 29th/GageBrandon Aldredge State Farm Insurance, SW 29th/Croco
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