To those with little kids - how often do you get sick?

[bookworm1982]

I know this should be posted in General Health but trying to get a few more responses.

Basically, I have two kids - 3 and 5 - who have colds etc a lot, which I know is normal, but how normal is it for them to be passed to me every time? I'm literally coming down with a cold/sore throat every few weeks at the moment. I feel as though at my age, my immune system should be a lot tougher, not constantly going down with every runny nose my kid wipes on me. I hardly ever got sick a few years ago.

So just wondered - anyone else constantly sick, or should I check this out with doc?

Thanks! Enjoy the sunshine!
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Very rarely, in fact I would say I get sick more than my kids and I get sick usually once a year (usually around the transition to spring I get a bad cold- or this year covid). Touch wood my 1yr old and 4yr old are rarely sick.

Not yet. Ds is nearly 2. He had hand/foot/mouth about 6 months ago , I think he caught at airport. But otherwise he and us haven’t had even a sniffle since he was born ( actually I think since covid started, masks have helped)

Not every time they do by any means. Thankfully norovirus doesn’t happen often in our household touch wood, last time was 3 years ago and I did catch it but didn’t the time before. With colds I’d say I get 3-4 a year whereas my 1 and 3 year old’s seem to constantly have one during winter.

My 3 year old had hand, foot and mouth last summer and none of us caught it.

Colds- every single time one of the little monsters brings one home
Stomach bugs- literally never, the kids catch them, and despite the cleaning up and the cuddles I just don't catch them. Dh does though, every time.

Vary rarely do I catch what my kids have, I get a cold / cold sore a few times a year

It depends. I pick up most colds and one out of two stomach bugs (did the whole house bar one 🙈)

Child rarely is sick. I have friends whose children are unwell from 1week to the next. Guess it's immune system.

I actually never pick up their stomach bugs, I should have said, even if I'm covered in their sick (which I usually am). It's just the colds.

When mine started nursery at 2 it felt like he gave me something new most months with a break over the summer. I probably had 6 or more illnesses a year during that time. It’s better now he’s at school although this past winter I was basically ill for 3 months with various things including covid.

You can get this Vicks First Defence stuff which you spray up your nose as soon as you're exposed to a cold. I don't know if it works but worth a shot? Take a high dose Vitamin C?

I'm the same, feel like I've got a cold / sore throat all the time but don't pick anything else up. It's so annoying!! I never used to be I'll before having her!

I've got a 2 year old and a baby and I've only been really badly poorly once and it was a 12 hour thing.

I don't know if it's that we just carry on now where we'd have taken to bed before kids though?

Pretty much all the time. It's awful. Work hate me.

Not all the time. I reckon 10-25% of sickness bugs. Had an awful one a few months ago just as I was supposed to have an interview. Had both children with full on projectile vomiting, I was bad and husband had a slightly off tummy so he didn’t do as badly.

Colds maybe 10% for me and 25% for my husband who normally goes down with more than me. We’ve all had a horrific one recently but I’ve been worse.

My two have been permanently snotty since October. The little one really struggles to sleep when stuffy so we’ve had broken nights for 6 months. Hoping for a few months reprieve in the summer (although my hay fever will then kick in by May so if I’m lucky there might be 2 months of no sneezing in the house. Gah.

Rarely maybe 2x a year

A lot, but most of the time it’s low level sick and I can get on with things. Sniffles and sore throats are my main thing. Although not helped by having a bit of a shit diet and being inactive. A couple of bouts of vomiting and getting the flu in ten years, which meant I was properly stuck in bed sick.