to say nurseries are the invention of the devil!!!

[AnneofGreenFables]

Aha!!! Bet you thought this would be yet another SAHM vs WOHM bun-fight, didn't you? Didn't you?!!

Before we commence throwing buns, my post is purely in relation to them being a haven of colds unlike any other known to man!!! People told me children pick up lots of colds when they start nursery and/ or school but damn it I didn't believe them!!!

I'm on day 5 of yet another cold which has now subsided to become a delightful phlegm-ridden cough (sorry if TMI), and I've had enough!!

I don't know what the answer is (sheep-dipping all small children in disinfectant maybe? - Joke!), but I hate being ill!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Right, rant over. Please continue bun throwing as long as they're of the Belgian or cream-filled variety (although even then I wouldn't be able to taste them!)

I work in nurseries!

I was about to tell you to do one, but YANBU OP. I have had one cold after another since the end of bloody November. Caught every single one of them off DS, who picked them up at nursery.

My work colleagues love me, as I then go and pass them round work.

Ah queen now I get it

You nursery folk must have the immune systems of... ...Gods!! How you survive the germs is one of the many things for which you are admired!

Marjori me too

When people first start in nurseries we warn them that they will be ill quite a lot at first. They say things like "Me?! I'm never ill!" Then we don't see them for the first 2 weeks.

Got covered in toad wee today.

After the first few months of DD being in nursery I was expecting an armageddon of D&V, colds, chicken pox, chest infections, conjunctivitis etc when DS started, but so far in the 6 months or so he's been there just a couple of colds... He did spend the first 6 months of his life with permanent cold though so maybe he got it all out of the way early. No nits so far either for both in a combined 4 years of nursery

What I don't understand is how the nursery germ soup is so hard on adults....I get the DCs are building an immune system, but I thought mine was finished ages ago.....hard-wood floors and the lot.

apols for TMI

YANBU. It's gruesome. DS has had colds and coughs non-stop ever since he started in nursery, plus conjunctivitis and hand, foot and mouth, and now we're waiting to see if he's caught chicken pox. I haven't caught all of them, but poor DH has (the last one had him up half the night coughing for weeks). I keep telling myself that if he wasn't in nursery, we'd just have had this phase when he started school instead.

I have been ill since January. There must be less germs on a plague ship.

I've had 2 lots of conjunctivitis this year as well, and the irony is he gets it there and they wont take him again until its gone, so I have to have days off work to tend to the green slime.

I'm hoping lots of people will come on here and say it doesn't last!

Me too, WhosePickle: I'm losing hope! We've had nearly nine months of this.

YANBU at all. DS (16 months) is ill yet again! Chest and ear infection this time. He's constantly snotty. Though DD who is nearly 4 and in a different building in nursery doesn't get ill quite as often as she used to. The conjunctivitis is one of the most fun ones, eye drops into a screaming, kicking, struggling toddler - hours of fun!
Hopefully they'll be bullet proof by the time DD starts school in Sept

I had the mother of all colds, it started in my nose, moved to my throat then sinuses then I didn't have it for a day and WHAM the next day started up again.

I always have it in some shape or form!

He hasn't had foot and mouth yet, so I am lucky!

I was told this phase lasts 6 moths but we're at 14 months and counting... At least I only get half of her colds...

Your child will eventually become immune to the germs at nursery. Just in time to start school where he or she will encounter a whole new range of germs which will last until they get to year 7 and yet another ranges of germs :)

I felt awful with those eye drops, last time he saw the bottle he just put his head in his hands and started sobbing wretchedly he hates it so much!

We had lots of colds and chicken pox but only one gastro bug each over almost 5 years of nursery, and the colds tapered off by the time they were 2.

When they started school the DDs were the ones who were never ill and they still aren't, it pays off in the end.

lardy that's what the women in my postnatal group said...as if colds, nits, conjunctivitis, ear infections etc are illnesses you can only catch once!

Oh. Dear. God.

I'm doomed.

This is clearly a plot by the major pharmaceutical (sp?) companies to shift more product. Bet they supply baby seats to nurseries or something, complete with a healthy dose of all colds known to man and smallpox thrown in for good measure!!

If you didn't send them to nursery you'd be going to parent and toddler groups with them. I am named in honour of the amount of germs we've picked up at the bloody things this year.
DS1 managed to bring something nasty home from preschool last week, even though we've been avoiding most of the plaguegroups the last few weeks and enjoying the sunshine.

If I go on a train on a long journey, I think they are very germ ridden.

Don't worry, it will eventually be replaced by impetigo

and nits

and threadworms

and sickness bugs

Then one glorious day, you will find you have non-bug-catching teens on your hands. It's then as simple as keeping out of their bedrooms to stay free of disease...

I've still not had this and DS is 5, going into primary 2 after the summer, he's just has the usual odd cold, maybe he's a carrier :o passing all the virus's known to man onto your poor dc!

DMSpy

A second for DMspy!

Completely agree! Me and my DC have had colds for about hmmm 4 months! In fact, they only cleared up last week (DS still has one) just in time for DD to catch bloody chicken pox!
And of course DS is showing no signs of catching it at the moment so will probably have it in two weeks time. little bugger!

How olds you're? Ds was ill for around a year after starting nursery but it does pass.

I'm convinced he must be immune to everything by now.