Constantly unwell!!

[Clark94]

Hello, has anyone else’s LO been constantly unwell since returning to nursery after Christmas. My LO is experiencing his first winter in nursery and wow we’ve been unwell 4 times now since January! I seems like almost every second week it’s something else!! He is awaiting a tonsillectomy as he gets constant reoccurring tonsillitis but he has just been unwell with snottery nose/coughs and fevers pretty much since the start of January! I’m exhausted! I’m worried there is something I’m missing or is this just normal nursery bugs !

I work in a school and this term the bugs have been nasty. Lasting weeks and vomiting, headaches, diarrhoea, sinus infections, tonsillitis and my goodness the coughs....the never ending coughs.....some kids have had a few weeks off school from bugs. It has to improve next half term.

Your child is not only being exposed to all of this, but they don't have immunity which comes over time. It will get better.

Make sure they know about hand washing (before eating especially). Also wash hands as soon as you get home, get her lots of sleep, down time at weekends. Multivit and great natural pro-biotics to build her up. (Yes, kids should get everything they need through a good diet....but even I'm on the multivit at the moment to try to counter some of the germs.)

Sadly this is completely normal. That first year in nursery is real special! 😂

Sounds all very normal. I work in a nursery and a lot of the children have been off for various things this last few months. We've had the usual colds, high temps, croup, d&v, hand foot and mouth, chicken pox and a few have had tonsilitis. It usually does get better when it starts to warm up and its good that they are building up immunity. Its difficult as unfortunately a lot of the children are sent in unwell