Can’t take the illnesses anymore

[Vergus]

I have had enough of my two kids being ill with one thing after another this December. It’s making me anxious. My eldest caught what I think would have been full blown flu earlier in the month but as he’s had the flu nasal spray he wasn’t as rough as he could have been. His brother (6yrs old) had it before him so it obviously just went from one to the other. Then the eldest caught the worst norovirus ever. It was awful. Wiped him out for a week. Day 5 and he only just started eating again. Then he caught RSV this Monday just gone so bouts of dry coughing all the time. Yesterday the little one came down with a fever and……..you guessed it, today is cough cough cough.

I’m really stressed and tired. Can’t take much more of this. I suffer from health anxiety so it probably is causing me more worry than it should but boy I’m done. I just want to start being able to prep for Christmas and I can’t. I work full time too and it’s been an absolute nightmare as I’ve had to have them home all the time.

Feel like I can’t even relax and enjoy festivities this year. Hopefully the cough and fever in the little one will pass within 3 days or so. It’s shit

I feel like I peddle this out constantly but it works. You all need PROBIOTICS. Available in powder form for babies from 12 months or for bigger kids from age 3 as chewable tablets. Thank me later.

@RegulatorsMountUp

I’ll try it. And I’ll thank you now x

The boots one are the best, for kids and adults. You have to all take them every single day without fail though.

Regulatorsmountup do probiotics help to avoid tummy bugs?

Yessss a million times over. One child of mine has had 2 tummy bugs only (only sick once or twice each time and hasn't spread to anyone else over 3 years in nursery) and the other child who is mid primary age has never had a sick bug.

It was the same when we lived in the UK. Winter was an absolute nightmare for illness.

@ProfTeeCee

Where do you live. I’m relocating there

Australia 🤣
I can literally count on one hand the number of times I've been ill in the last 10 years! Every winter in the UK was bad - flu, noro, post viral infections etc. I can feel you pain.

Urgh we’re the exact same here- I’ve got 2 at primary school and one at nursery and all they’ve done is pass one virus to another the whole of December. I’ve gone through about 10 bottles of calpol, it’s like the bloody coughing chorus in our house. Every “activity” planned in December has been a write off and I feel like its inevitable that at least one of them will be ill on Xmas day. It’s rubbish and it’s really getting me down to be honest.

Regulatorsmountup which brand do you recommend?

Two of my grandchildren have been on Optibac since babyhood. They have very seldom been ill, even when multiple lurgies have been felling their classmates. My other grandchildren always seem to have some ailment or other. Their parents either don't believe in probiotics or don't like to take advice. The children are all roughly the same age.

Boots own brand probiotics for kids over age 3 and adults. And Bio360 powder for babies over 12 months.

@RegulatorsMountUp could you please add a picture of the ones you use x

These helped my cat when he came back from being lost for 7 weeks like a skeleton with dihoreah

These ones

My sister lives in Australia and her two are sicker more often than mine who live in the U.K. RSV and covid have been rampant where she is.