Sick Children already 😪

[MigGril]

One week, we have been back to school one full week and I have two (teenagers) who are already coming down with colds. One is full on snotty already, would I be unreasonable to lock them in their bedrooms and not let them out until they are better? (Only joking really)

But really it's taken me virtually all summer to get over a bad bought of covid they gave me in July and I had a chest infection with that as well. I really don't want to be ill again 😪, also I've been off work with a chronic illness and was just about feeling better.

are they generally pretty sickly kids?

Not normally we get a couple of colds a year on average.

oh you gave the impression that this was the start of a normal winter of endless colds

I guess I'm just feeling depressed about it as it took me so long to get over covid and this horrible chest infection. For the first time since April I thought I might be well enough to go back to work in a week or two and now they have brought something home from school 😪.

I just don't want to feel ill again.

Back in school 3 days and my youngest was off sick. Now I'm now well. The bugs are starting early this year 😆

You need some of that First Defence stuff. Squirt up the nose (yours, not theirs) a couple of times a day. Makes it a very inhospitable environment for the virus to breed and works for me. Snotty child, but no spreading virus.

what is your diet like?

and rather than think inevitable going to get it…. be optimistic that you’re feeling better and stronger

and a cold shouldn’t derail you going back to work surely?

My 2 year old was at childminders for 2 days and is down with a cold😅 did not expect it to happen that fast😂

Take Vitamin D and vit c with zinc to help with the getting over the covid

I'm taking a lot of vitamins already due to some deficiencies, probably caused by being ill already.

It may if it makes my long-term condition worse again which it could do.

I'm going to see if we have some of that nasal defence spray in the cupboard. Problem is I'm on so many drugs already, it's me that's the issue. The kids will most likely just bounce back from it.

OP get yourself on the Metatone and some First Defence up the hooter.

Same 😭 and the rules are stricter now so we got told to bring ds in yesterday after I’d emailed to explain he would be off as had a horrible cold (he had been awake 2-445am) and awful cough. When I said no they said it won’t be authorised unless he also has a fever over 38??!

Same here. No colds over July and August. As soon as September hit my little one is snotty again.
I work with teenagers and there's already loads of colds going around between peers after one week of school.