Sick of being sick thanks to fucking creche.

[DublinMammy]

In the midst of what feels like my millionth cold of this winter. I never used to get sick at all until my DS started going to a creche 2 days a week - thank God he doesn't go 5 days or I would be on a stretcher. AIBU to blame the creche and want to wear a bio-hazard suit from now on?

Lol well on the plus side, you're building your immune system along with them.

If it didn't happen now, it'd happen as soon as they start school.

wait till he starts school!

Oh crap - do they just keep bringing more and more diseases home?

It's a nightmare isn't it?!

The way it always happens in our house is as follows:

one DC gets ill; I take time off work to look after him/her

as soon as first DC goes back to school, other DC goes down with it and I have to take more time off work

as soon as second DC goes back to school, DH goes down with it and is completely useless for days on end because DH has the lurgy FAR worse than the DCs had it

as soon as DH goes back to work, I go down with it ....

Welcome to parenthood and sickness bugs, viruses etc

yes! we had a sickness bug for six weeks - passed form one to the other to the other - ended up with the middle on in hospital with dysentry - worked LOVED me for that - ended up with a 'review' of my 'levels of absences'

They start to get a lot less bugs from the age of about 7yrs onwards.

It's crap
We've been in the loop for 2 weeks now...

Hang in there! You are building a super-resistance I'm certain. DD1 started creche v early and now at age 3 has weathered a tough winter with only one illness (during half-term, so was prepared to be home anyway)

My worst moment though was when DD1 brought home a cold last winter which ended up becoming RSV in 5 week old DD2 who was hospitalised (standard procedure) and spent two days in an oxygen 'bubble'.

When my DD started nursery at 9 mo I wondered if I'd ever manage to do a full week of work again. She started school in September and has only had one day off through sickness so far.

AAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! We are going to be in a perpetual snot-cough-fever cycle until he is 7?!?!? No!!!! And MrsMac I feel your pain on the man-flu front. Why is it that when DS is sick, I look after him; When DH is sick, I look after them both; When I am sick, I still look after everyone. I want someone to look after me!!!!

Ahem! Sorry for plaintive whinefest.

There is no upside at all: the "building immunity" argument is rubbish. Children's immunity to colds etc is weak until they are 6/7. The more colds they have when their ENT systems are not fully developed (ie until they are three), the weaker their ENT systems will be and therefore the worse their colds will be when they go to school.

I know it's not good news. But just wanted to correct a few erroneous points on this thread.

Not good news indeed, Bonsoir. Am off to bed now to build up my own immunity....

DS and I get a new disease pretty much every week from the local playgroup, which has now become known in our house as plaguegroup. Glad to hear it gets better in another 6 and a half years....

@ plaguegroup

No, seriously , I know it's no laughing matter when DCs are ill, but plaguegroup

Agree with Bonsoir.

The manager at my DD's pre school has been looking after DC at this nursery for almost 20 years.
Almost every time I see her (3 times a week) she has a bright red runny nose or watery eyes, or has a hacking cough. Quite often, it is all 3.

Now if she hasn't built up enough immunity to avoid most of the coughs/colds in 20 years of daily contact with children, what hope have the rest of us got?

FWIW, I am another who is sick of the constant round of bugs, coughs and colds going round. DD is 3.6, has been at pre school since she was 2, and it is worse this year than I can ever remember it being.
If I wake up one more night to cough so violently that I am heaving, and cannot catch my breath, I will scream and scream. I am heartily sick of being ill, and am silently cursing the bugs and recoil now when I see a child with a face flowing in snot, coughing and spluttering near myself or DD.

I know it is unreasonable to feel this way, and it can't be helped, but I have gone from catching a cough/cold maybe once or twice a year to only being cough/cold free one week in 4!!!! This has been going on for months now.

I wonder if the mild winter has got something to do with it being particularly bad this year??

Immunity doesn't build up imo...the bugs and germs are just too clever for that.

Its not colds im worried about getting when dd starts school its nits i can deal with a cold but nits in my very long hair would be a nightmare

A paediatrician once told me that the under 5's are the most efficient bug transmitters know to medical science!

WatermelonSugar - I hope you don't mind but this sums up our winter so perfectly I couldn't resist.

We've not just had colds, but also chickenpox, rubella (unconfirmed) and the possibility of scarlet fever looming. I have no idea how the DC have picked up so many things when they've spent so much of the winter in isolation.

YANBU to be pissed, no one likes being sick. I alway find that vit C, echinachea and zinc help me when i start to get ill. That and sweaty exercise and spicy food (obv not if you have flu or norovirus).

Biohazard suit won't help much, take it from a scientist that even if your lil one doesn't get ill he can carry the bugs happily to you and not neccessarily be affected by them. I've been in contact with all my relatives mid puking and cleaning puke and crap while having the norovirus and never been ill but my poor partner and best friend caught it and no one around them even had a whiff of it. Weird...

My family have been I'll since begining of January, I can't remember what it is like not to be ill or have Looking after dc during illness

DD gets sick, DH gets sick and I take time off an look after them.

I get sick with throat infection, DH gets drunk leaving me to mind the baby. He needs to relax. Or he takes two days off work and stays in bed while DD and I go back to nursery and work then he moans no one is there to look after him.

Bloody bugs and colds and sickness and I am fed up of being unwell and feeling like crap. YANBU. I've been more unwell in 19mo since DD was horn than in the last 30+ years.

Horn? *born.

Still laughing at plaguegroup :o So true, DH has referred (lovingly ) to Dd as Typhoid Mary since she's started nursery! 6 weeks of cold/ cough/ vomittimg rota.