to not have realised that so much of childhood would be taken up by illness?

[toomuchillness]

Before I had DC, I knew that obviously DC would be ill at times but I genuinely didn't realise how much of their time they would spend in illness. I have one at school and one at nursery. Their noses seem to run for 6-7 months at a time virtually constantly from September to when the weather starts to get warmer. Colds, chest infections, conjunctivitis, diarrhoea, vomiting, molluscum contagiousm, chicken pox, coughs which last for a month a time - it just doesn't seem to end

Everyone says it will get better when they get older. The annoying thing is I end up catching quite a few of the illnesses too

With you on that one Martarama, what is this mollusc condition I hear of? Please don't tell me it's the proper name for constant green nose!

I've never met anyone with a fever of 40 who wasn't obviously ill.

Molluscum is a horrible but very common skin condition

It is down to luck. DS has much better sickness record than DD and they were both breast fed /kept away from Londoninium/ swaddled in angel hair/ baby led weaned on Abel & Cole/ insert whatever else...

I've never met anyone with a fever of 40 who wasn't obviously ill.

You have never met DS then!

Temp of 41 not shifting with calpol (can't have brufen) happily playing in A and E - spent 4 days in hospital with pneumonia!

God! I love these threads :)
"I have 34 dc and none of them have ever had a day off school ill!"
:)
I have 2 dc and since sept last year they have had (between them)
Tonsilitis x 2
Chest infection
Impetigo x 2
Conjunctivitis
D and v x 2
Tracheitis
Ds1 is 10 and at secondary and ds2 started reception in sept.
They eat well, exercise regularly and apart from both having asthma are I would say pretty fit.
Ds2 is currently on month 2 of a wet chesty cough but the dr days it viral so no treatment.
Luckily he sees his asthma dr next month so we might get somewhere...

www.nhs.uk/conditions/molluscum-contagiosum/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Never heard of the mollusc condition but now I am enlightened! Thanks.

Yes, ds1 had that a few years ago! :)
It does clear up as fast as it arrives.
Very odd.

It does clear up as fast as it arrives. very odd

My GP advised 18 months - 2 years for it to clear up

Martorana, I remember very clearly keeping well out of my mother's way so she wouldn't realise I had German measles. Fortunately she spotted it (pun unintentional) or I hate to think what that could have done to somebody if I had just gone into school as I intended. I also soldiered on with a badly infected throat until it turned into pneumonia: I was off school for a month.

Children are all different: some will tell you exactly what you need to know, others will exaggerate their sufferings, others again will be embarrassed to let you know that they've just passed out on the bathroom floor (yes, that was me again ).

Yes, it was 18 months for my ds, I meant it goes overnight when it goes.

I have a 9yo who has never been ill. The only time he has ever seen a doctor was for his 6 week check as a baby. He was bf for a year but his diet now is terrible. He eats about 8 things and won't try anything else. I think it is just luck. The only days he had had off school " ill" are when I've lied an we've gone away for the week .

My mum sent me to school no matter what was wrong...hence I will never do that to my dc.
Worst one was spending all day in the school sick bay babbling about wizards (apparently) as I was delerious with fever.
Another one was being sent in when I had concussion.
There is such a thing as benign neglect.
Then there's just neglect :(

Pepper...yes I agree.
It's dumb luck.

Yeah some kiddies do seem to be ill lots. My dd has had a cough and throat infection in a year. Oh and thrush on her tongue. The cough lasted a few days and the thrush ... Would that even be counted ? My friends babies in te other hand seem to always be suffering :(
I realise I am majorly lucky (thus far) and hope this luck lasts. I always feed dd lots of healthy stuff and lots of fluids (loads!) plus always socks on feet and well wrapped outside. Basics really ! A runny nose i would not count as an illness by the way.
My dd is very big for her age and probably has our good genes, plus she made me very aneamic in the womb by sucking the iron out of me haha!!

I remember being sent to school, walking through the entrance and vomiting on a pile of other childrens coats.

I bet their parents absolutely LOVED my 'oh, she'll be fine!' parents...

We've got 3dc, not that often ill, but this winter has been really rough. D&v twice in two weeks plus a cold going round the house was a little point.

As was DS and DD2 getting bronchiolitis from a cold DD1 bought home from school and 6wo dd2 getting seriously ill, nil by mouth and on a ventilator in hospital.

Sometimes luck sucks.

I'm just grateful we're coming out of it with just dd2s lungs weakened.

As I said, a child needs to tell me/show me they are ill- I don't tell them. If they don't, we carry on as normal.

As cory said - all children are different. Dd1 could be shivering with a fever and the colour of Kermit and still insist she is fine and ok to go to school. Dd2 revels in the drama and makes a nest to be ill in. Neither of them get ill very often now (6 and 7).

Ds (3.8) really suffers even with minor illnesses, he can't speak to tell us how he is feeling, but it is obvious.

It must be incredibly difficult with a child who has sn.
How can they verbalise how they feel?
What if they have sensory issues that mean they can't process feeling ill?

With ds it is certainly a struggle. He fell yesterday, his ankle obviously hurt but he kept trying to stand and walk because he didn't understand that it was going to hurt.

He has wonky pain receptors, so doesn't react to pain like one of my other children would. He couldn't put any weight on it at all so we went to a+e, despite the fact his leg is too painful to put any weight on it, the only time he screamed was when the nurse tried to put a bandage on, because he hates people he doesn't know touching his feet!

It really does seem to be the luck of the draw, rather than some magical parenting techniques. I was hardly ever ill as a child - I had 9 cicken pox but no other symptoms, never caught colds, was one of 3 kids in my class who didn't get flu one year, not even German measles. My brother however..... Chicken pox at 6 weeks incredibly badly (still has scars at 30), German measles at 3m, mumps badly enough that we were all very relieved that he managed to father a child recently (there was a lot of doubt about it), and every single other bug going. All of them.

Same parents.

I would notice if my child had German measles, concussion, dilirium or was the colour of Kermit! Thwt's what I mean by "show" me.

Mine were constantly ill too, it's normal and ignore all this nonsense about it's how you define it, people are just having a dig. It went on for years, sickness, colds, infections etc etc, endless calpol and weeks on end where one would get it and the whole family go down. Excellent diet and lifestyle here too. It will come to an end one day.

I guess I have been lucky, mine are 8, 6 and 1 month. DC1 and 2 have rarely been ill. DC2 had tonsillitis several times in his first year of school and they had chickenpox when they were at preschool but other than that they haven't been ill enough to miss any school. Fingers crossed DC3 will be the same.

my son cant really have sugar as it used to make him pass out so he lives on fruit veg and curry (his fav food) he was always sick in nursery but it was so hot in there its no wonder thankfully the reception rooms are not so bad but he is still mega sick all the time just not ill enough to stay at home fortunatly

" but he is still mega sick all the time just not ill enough to stay at home fortunatly"

What on earth does that mean?