To worry this isn't normal

[mommybearof2]

I've NC for this but I've posted quite a lot recently about DC and myself being ill constantly.

I'm just starting to worry that it's not a normal level of illnesses to be getting. DC are both in KS1 at school so I understand that they are going to pick a lot up, but it has still felt relentless.

I haven't gone more than 6 days in the last 4 months without catching a bug, it's mainly cold/sinus related bugs but I've also had sickness bugs. I only started to feel better on Wednesday after a bad cold and now tonight I feel shivery and my sinuses are really bothering me so I know I'm coming down with it again.

I'm worried that something is wrong. I have actually got a DRs appt on Thursday as I've also lost a stone over the past month without trying at all (although I desperately needed to lose the weight, I've just been too lazy to try) so now I'm worrying it's all related! Obviously I'll ask the DR but has anybody else been getting this many bugs this winter?

Not a bad idea to get it checked out, but to be honest an endless series of colds and tummy bugs is par for the course in our house too. Our GP calls it “benign toddleritis” hahaha

@UpToMyElbowsInDiapers I'm just hoping for some nicer weather soon to hopefully get rid of it all!

It's worth getting checked out absolutely but from mybown experience it's not unusual with small children. Ds2 in particular was a plague carrier every winter and lived to share. They are all teenagers now and we are all hardly ever ill now they don't sneeze directly into my eye balls.

I have had a terrible winter for illness too. I have had 2 very bad chest infections and rarely used to catch anything. . I lost around half a stone so was also worried like you and went for blood tests. All came back fine. I think the weight loss was caused by the illness and the stress of it.

I would get checked out if I were you just for peace of mind. There have been a few threads about how bad the bugs have been this year.

I hope you feel better soon!

I used to get everything going until I started taking vitamin b supplements. I am much better now .

Yes, unfortunately. This winter has been brutal, with us catching various stomach bugs and viruses pretty much every other week. Lowlight of this winter was when me and my three kids all started vomiting the same night and my husband was out of the country for a week.

I also caught a terrible flu from our youngest that kept me in bed feeling like hell for 1.5 week (while on holiday in austria :( ) It has been really rough this year!

Youngest is currently recovering from a tonsillectomy and ear tubes surgery, and I hope we will all catch a break soon.. it’s exhausting isn’t it?

Same issue here op I'm afraid. I have three kids 5, 3 and 6 months and we have had one of us feeling ill on a cycle since dd was born. Utterly relentless. COVID in September, flu (3yo hospitalised) at Christmas and then cold after cold since. Just a really rotten winter i think and little ones handing it to one another almost literally on a plate I suppose.

Hope you feel better soon.

It's been horrific in our house too!

Toddler DS (3) has had (yes I actually counted ) 14 cold / cough / fever etc bugs. Two of them particularly nasty. RSV which knocked him for about 10 days and hospitalised the newborn and another unidentified that he had breathing difficulties with, hospital confirmed it was viral etc.
he's also had 3 x stomach bugs.

This is all since September time when he started nursery. Double whammy of him being a covid baby / first 'normal' winter & starting nursery. It has been absolute hell!

Poor baby ( 7 months) has also had it bad. RSV put him in hospital for over a week. He's had 5 ear infections, 4 rounds of antibiotics and more snotty noses than I can count.

Spoken to various GPS along the way and all are saying it's normal & they're seeing generally higher levels of everything this year particularly in children.

Sorry to hear everyone else is suffering too but it does put my mind at rest that it's not just my household!
All 4 of us have been hospitalised once since December with something and it's just feels absolutely relentless at the moment! Let's hope next winter is better!

The joys of kids in primary schools, they r rubbish with hygiene and now it’s worse due to not socialising during covid.