Please tell me that the illness after illness at nursery and preschool means better immunity later

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Third winter of dealing with this. The fear, the cleaning up vomit, or catarrh, who’ll take leave this time, the being up all night with a sad sick child. Please tell me there’s a silver lining and school will be less shitty

Not necessarily I'm afraid. If you are someone who is susceptible to catching things like tummy bugs and colds then that tends to continue. They all grow out if it but that won't happen quicker if you've been ill more when younger. It happens at its own pace.

yes it does get better.

keep an eye on hygiene (handwashing!), sleep, exercise (at least one hour a day, peferably outside), nutrition (consider a supplement if your dc is fussy)

Er- just wait til reception!!!

My son was constantly ill in nursery, now year 2 and only been off one day for being poorly so I think it does help

DD was in one week off the next at nursery. So many illnesses. She had tonsils out at 4 and at 7 she rarely gets sick, so far had 1 day off school since September. Hasn’t had a vomiting bug for a couple of years. So for us it seems like better immunity was the case!

It does get better! My kids are now 8 and 10 and I can't remember the last time either of them were ill.

Thank you

We used to put a supplement into a cup of milk but he started complaining about the taste. Would love to get one in him though. He’s three and very resistant to medicine. Just watching the one where Peppa is ill to make him take his medicine

For my son it did. He was so unwell with chest infections, ear infections, throat infections etc he ended up in hospital several times between the ages of 18m and 4. I was convinced he had an immune deficiency and even asked our GP about it.

He's now 23. Barely had a day off school sick the whole time. He's been working for 4 years now and apart from covid and when he got an eye injury through work, has had no time off either.

Fingers crossed your little one is growing an amazing immunity and will be the same.

Thank you. We were up at Sick Kids earlier but discharged after four hours monitoring. GP told us to go straight there. I find it both terrifying and annoying

I mean it is anecdotal but my two were constantly (tag teaming) snotty and coughing from October to March until they hit school and then barely had a day off since (maybe 2 weeks off each in total and they're now years 9&10). However, they have both had literally one vomiting bug each (and I pretty sure DD faked hers) ever so we have escaped that.

I think it just gets better as they get older, regardless of previous illness.

In my experience yes it got much better into the later years of primary. Other than a couple bouts of Covid for them both and some additional influenza for the younger who is nearly 12, they’ve been pretty solid since 2022!

Have you tried the peppa pig multivitamin gummies? They’re basically sweets and seem to have boosted my 4 year olds immune system

In my experience yes. We were plagued by illness in nursery and they were healthy as oxen all through school.

In fact we changed GP when my middle DD was 5 and she attended the new doctor aged 16 for the first time.

Both of mine very healthy from around 4 years old after what seemed like years of constant illness.

Yes it does - I think a combination of immune systems getting more used to different illnesses and just not so much touching each other. Also less touching from staff. Like in nursery all the coats need zipping and someone is bound to have wiped their nose on their hand, before touching their coat. (Same for shoes and gloves) By reception, only a small number of coats need zipping, so there's less staff touching the kids stuff!