How do you avoid bugs now kids are back at school?

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My kids have the annoying habit of carrying bugs without showing symptoms. I usually end up getting it. I have one at the moment where I can’t really leave the toilet. It’s like I took a laxative.

Cling film and a full face respirator…

Don’t tempt me

Good lifestyle choices: no alcohol, get to bed early and as much fresh air as I/we all can get.

Then the second anyone in the house so much as starts with a sniffle, I start taking mega doses of vitamin C and zinc. It’s worked since the dc were nursery age (eldest in secondary now).

They’ve both had the vomiting bug this past week and while I had a day or two when I felt not totally 100%, I didn’t get it.

If I was worried about getting it without noticing, I’d just take the vitamin C and zinc all winter (I used to when they were little).

I’ll take the advice about the vitamins. I have the kids on immune booster vitamins which seems to be working so I’ll do the same and see if it helps

Thanks

Also vitamin D, to boost the immune system; many people in the UK are deficient for obvious reasons.

We purchased HEPA filters for every room in the house , we also have started the dc on a regime of probiotics as well as the usual multivitamin and mineral supplements. We’ve added manuka honey to their diets, we wash the uniforms daily with antibacterial laundry liquid (they change the minute they get in ). We are now a strict no shoes in the house household since beginning of the year and have been much more consistently well

This is a joke surely?
You do know that our immune systems need exposure to bugs?

I used to use Dettol spray, the one in a can on surfaces. Especially door handles, edges of table or wherever they sit to eat. And I’ve always been a hand washer.

I think that’s a bit excessive but you do what works for you I guess

I’m definitely going to start of a vitamin booster and see if it helps. I’ll do c and d and see if that helps at all. Luckily they are pretty cheap

This is not normal.

Vitamins, lots of green veg and hand washing usually does the trick.

We’ve also introduced a nasal saline spray before bath/shower on a night as I read an article saying it can cut the length of colds in half so I’m prepared to give it a go! Literally one spray up each nose.

My dc were CONSTANTLY ill the 3 years prior to us doing it. They weren’t building up their immunity they were sick all the time. The gp even did bloods just to check there wasn’t something underlying. 2 developed post viral fatigue after Covid . They got a lot of d and v bugs too one year it was awful. School
attendance was such a concern it was causing a lot of tension with school.

They missed SO much school. Missed clubs and parties. It’s been horrible. So at the start of this year we started these measures and they’ve been so much better . It’s worth it for us as they have normal lives again

We also eat more of things like dark green leafy veg (previously already very healthy diets but the dc werent keen so we add to smoothies), we also batch cook bone broths and have more garlic in our diet than previously.