To ask how often your primary age dc get stomach bugs?

[bobstersmum]

As the title really, just wondering if it's possible for them to survive a winter without one?
Mine go to a large school (600+) and last year even the parents and teachers caught it.
It's already doing the rounds, I've a feeling it's going to be a long stretch till spring!

And forgot to mention, would eat food that was left out over night etc. For example my mom would make chicken soup on night and leave it out on the stove. I would eat it the next night. Never a problem! Now I am appalled at this! But growing up, we did this all the time leaving meats out over night or even two nights and eating it!!! I was always fine. 😳 I’m horrified now at the thought and would never do this. But growing up I didn’t know better and wasn’t aware of being careful w meat etc.

Apart from my toddler's horrendous time with his tonsils until they were removed. My kids are of the rarely ill but when they are they are really ill sort. Also more prone to the poopers rather than sick.

They lick public bins, eat food off the floor and are generally feral. One breast fed, one not. About the same for illnesses.

Almost never. I have 12, 9 and 7 year olds and they rarely get ill at all. I'm talking maybe once every two or three years. And it's more like a 24 minute bug than a 24 hour one. All their attendances are usually 100%.
On the very rare occasion they are ill, it has little effect on them.
My youngest had bronchiolitis as a newborn and other than a temperature (which was quickly dealt with by stripping him down and a breastfeed) and sounding a bit wheezy, it never bothered him.
As a two and a half year old he had loose stools for over a week. A sample was sent off and found he'd managed to get Campylobacter and a Cryptosporidium infection somehow. They couldn't believe he had no other symptoms than a bit of the runs, especially as he had such high readings. Little dude couldn't care less. Environmental health were a bit different and cared a LOT trying to discover where he could have picked them up.

DD10 was off school mon and tues vomiting. She seems to often have an
Upset stomach. I think it's anxiety rather than a bug

We usually get vomiting bugs in Feb/March/April. Just when you think you’ve escaped. Bam. Vomit central all over the place. 🙄

Only one bout of v&d. All four of us were affected at the same time , about 15 or so years ago. My children are 24 and 21. We do not use a microwave. Just saying.

@1Morewineplease

What is the link with the microwave?

DS is 11 now and has had a few bugs over the course of eight primary years. Once in YR. Then norovirus which DH and I then got but DS bounced back from that quite quickly - was vomiting in the morning, stopped by lunchtime and then announced by 2pm he was starving and could he have lunch (by which point I felt ill and just wanted to go to bed, but had to wait til DH came in to relieve me). He was five then, so Y1. Then in Y3 he had a bug that knocked he and I flat, no vomiting luckily but just couldn't move for about three/four days. About half the school was off with that one.

I think that's it. He had a LOT of colds in the mums & tots groups era, and in F1 and YR, but that tapered off thankfully.

I do think hand washing is important to slow down spread of contamination or reduce infection spread, and also prefer proper ventilation so windows open most of the time and definitely when someone's ill.

What has a microwave got to do with anything? We don’t have one either

That was meant to be

Apparently there is a blood type element.
If a child is prone to say reflux or maybe car sickness i suspect that would also make a difference.
Definitely you can see the virus affecting people differently. 1 d&v others tired, grumpy, headache or just D.
You can get d&v with cold type viruses and they give lots of different symptoms incl croup, chest infections and utis. I think to do with if you inhale or swallow the virus. If you have sinus issues you may be more likely to swallow the virus.

DS (Year 2) has only had a stomach bug once and he caught it off me!

Neither of us tend to be susceptible to sickness bugs thankfully. We both usually get a cough and cold around this time but nothing major. DS has only ever had 2 days off school sick.

Never ! , I have 2 dc , 8 and 16 and we have never had a sickness bug .. I haven't been sick from a big since I was a small child .. weird as I wonder why my insides and that of my family are seemingly so immune to them ..

Mine is only 5 and in Y1. She was FF. I think she has 2 sick bugs - one when she was 1 and once when she was in preschool.

We’re down with one at the moment, I’m hoping that’s it until next school year but average 2 a year.

My DS is year 1 and hasn’t had one since starting school. He started in school nursery 2 years ago. He’s in a large primary of over 600 children too. He’s 5.5 and only ever had a bug once.

Two boys, one (8) never gets anything the other one (5) is a really sickly kid even the smell of the chip shop makes him sick. Usually it’s not a bug, one throw up and he’s done. Last year he was sick once for days though

My DD7 has never caught it from school. She had really bad at the age of 11 months, after a friend's birthday party.

I bet she will catch it now I've said it though

I'm a primary teacher. Used to have a really good immune system but as I am getting older it seems to be getting worse. I tend to have at least one bad cold and stomach virus each winter. I suppose cleaning up vomit doesn't help!

Ours rarely get ill, when they were toddlers they definitely got more bugs. Annoyingly when they are poorly it's during a school holiday when I've got fun stuff planned.

Once in 5 years of primary school so far. DS was bottle-fed - as was I. Fairly relaxed approach to hand washing and hygiene at home. In our family we are hardly ever ill. I’ve had only 3 days off sick in the past 5 years too.

In primary DS had one stomach bug and DD had a couple (but not as bad as DS’s).
She had one in early secondary too but was in the summer holidays!
Usually just a cold although DS rarely gets a bad one and otherwise gets on with life with a sniffle, DD is the malingerer of the house when even slightly under the weather.

Oh and DD was the bf one and she’s def more ‘sickly’

Are genetics involved? I've never had a stomach bug and neither have my kids. My DH says he has a faint memory of being sick as a kid.

But we are prone to other viruses. I sent to get throaty/sinusy illnesses. My youngest gets coughs (and has severe asthma).

Some children seem more susceptible to certain illnesses. My ds always gets tonsillitis...only one stomach bug though in his whole life and he caught that from me rather than school.