Toddler sick nearly every two weeks!!!! Its driving me mad!!

[Sangey]

I'm not sure if its the time of the year or I just have a very sickly child. My little girl is 2.5 yrs old and has yet another cold PLUS fever and general grottiness, only a few weeks ago she had a nasty bout of sickness/diorreah. I'm getting fed up with it, am I doing something wrong? She eats a healthy diet - one of her favourite foods is carrotts!!!
Last night I was up all night with her and I now feel like poo, also 37 weeks pregnant which doesn't help - I'll be too knackered to go into labour!! Any advice from mums who have sickly kids?
Thanks
x

[sunnysideup]

how knackering for you....when I saw my Dr recently with ds, he kind of looked over his glasses at me and said "you can expect your child to have one virus a month you know" eg don't bother me with him woman!!

I was surprised at this, it sounds so much but apparently that's normal.

Have you got a 'tonic' for your dd? When ds has been ill we give him Minadex which is a vitamin tonic basically, I don't know if it makes a huge difference but I guess the idea is to replace some of the vitamins they've been losing through sickness/not eating.

Lots of vitamin C, orange juice for instance....

Hope you get lots of other advice, and good luck with the new baby, how exciting!

[fennel]

sending you sympathy, we've been there. But they do grow out of it. When we had 2 under 3 they seemed to be constantly ill for 2 winters (and us too) but in the last 2 winters neither of them seems to have had anything at all really, nor their little sister. You can hope she's working her way through all the bugs and will end up quite resistant

[twoisenoughmum]

Total sympathies, but its really not unusual. Since September 1st this year my DS who was 3 in September has had 3 colds, my DD has had 1 but the cough that went with it lasted for about a fortnight (waking us all up in the night). DD has also had two separate days of diahorrea. DS has had chicken pox. DD currently has chicken pox and is off school. DS is also at home with a filthy cough and fever, he is coughing non-stop, literally non-stop, and so hard I think he's going to be sick. Or maybe it will become a sickness bug (that's happened to us before - we think one of them's just getting over a cold and then they'll have a tummy bug). DH and I have so far got away with just one cold each. But if I compare this to previous winters, its really just the same. Last year it was February, one or other of them was ill for the WHOLE of the month. If its any comfort to you, I did read somewhere that children who get lots of the common illnesses and viruses early on are less likely to get childhood leukaemia (sp?).

[Sangey]

Thanks for your comments - at least I know I'm not the only one! I think I am feeling sorry for myself and all I want to do at the moment is sleep in preparation for the birth, but then maybe this is getting me used to the idea of sleepless nights again!
The tonic sounds like a good idea, I'll have to look in the chemists, and I'm sure this is good for her in the long run - she starts nursery in the new year so hopefully she will be immune to all illnesses!!!! (I wish!)

[Notmeagain23]

I post this just in case any of you are still active on mumsnet! I was searching for this exact topic and this thread came up from 16 years ago - crazy that your kids must all be that old now at least! Did it get better? My 4 yo and 6mo are like a snotty/feverish tag team at the minute and I’m finding it so stressful