To bring this up with nursery?

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I have 2 DC under 3 so may be irrational here.

Since November both DC have consistently been ill. It’s been a shit storm of every virus imaginable, christmas spent in bed. Finally we were on the up to be hit last week with a lovely week of norovirus. For some reason whatever the DC get I get a few days later only worse so I then have to parent and go to work feeling like death (or ring in sick which I have done but it means no pay)

As far as I can tell nursery is clean, it always looks normal and tidy but it’s got to be the source. Am I going to look mad if I bring this up? Maybe ask them to check the children aren’t being brought in sick or if the other children are also as poorly as mine?

Those of you that work in nursery…is this normal? How much longer can it go on 😫

It’s completely normal and it’ll all happen again once they start primary.

Calms down after that though.

I don't work in a nursery but I can say that it was the same when my DS was young and was in nursery. He picked up every bug going and I also caught them, despite before this hardly ever being ill.
If it helps, it does get better. School is also a hotbed of germs, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as bad as the nursery years.

I am not entirely sure how you would bring it up with nursery and what exactly you would be accusing them of. You could ask to see their cleaning records but you would be making yourself look overprotective. They also can't really do much about other children, if they attend and seem well but then get sick they can only then send them home.

This is normal and kids starting nursery get everything. Same in reception and yr 1 when they start school a lot of bugs go round. It does settle down eventually.

Good idea. But will this reduce germs in a nursery...?

I imagine it’s the other children, not the actual nursery! Parents send sick kids in, don’t follow the guidance about time post infection and then gift it to everyone else. Nursery staff can’t wash toys after every child touches them and kids touch each other so it spreads like wildfire. It’s why I hate soft play! Would a childminder for your kids be feasible?

Unfortunately parents will send their little darlings to nursery whilst they are sick and then they infect everyone else, those places are super spreaders for germs with children putting things into their mouths and not washing hands properly etc It happens in all nurseries/schools.

Yup! That’s what happens when children mix.i was always ill by Harvest festival, then Christmas. It gets better, i promise you. I’ve had 24 hours of all three of us 🤮 at the same time. My DH came home to three very green peeps. It was grim.

Totally normal, and if it doesn't happen now it will when they start school. They'll build up immunity

Lots of viruses have incubation periods of a couple of weeks or so where kids are infectious but asymptomatic. It's not the nursery's fault.

Speak to the parents and tell them to stop sending their ill children in. Why is it always the nursery’s fault?

We’ve had all 5 of us vomiting this week! Complete nightmare!

I don’t know what I would say to be honest, maybe ask parents to be more careful? Clean more? Like I say I’ve had a horrible week, maybe I’m not realistic 😄

How would I speak to the parents? I’ve no idea who they are!

I work in a nursery and we have one child who catches everything. I feel so bad for her and her parents but there’s nothing we can do. The place gets cleaned every evening, everything that can go in the washing machine / dishwasher does so regularly and anything that goes in a mouth that shouldn’t gets thrown in Milton immediately. None of the other children are as ill as often as she is, it’s just her immunity.

You just have to go with the flow. Wherever we go we meet people, that’s how Covid spread so easily. Don’t worry, think how strong your immunity is getting.

Is it though? The next cold/flu/ vomiting bug won’t be the same, they are mutating all the time.

Do they eat a healthy diet, take vitamins abd get lots of fresh air and physical activity?

So many children get ill as they live indoors on junk do their immune system's are rubbish.

No different, my little one goes to a childminder and since he started he's had constant colds and coughs, hand foot and mouth, ear infection and conjunctivitis so it's really no different to a nursery. I'm waiting for it to end myself 😭

Nurseries have different policies - another one might suit you better if you are worried about other kids being ill? Our old one had 2 days' exclusion for a fever, and wouldn't give Calpol. Our new one doesn't have an exclusion period for fever, will give up to three doses of Calpol, and won't send them home if they're happy and playing/eating normally.

Obviously it depends on your child, but the second one suits us because our kids don't get ill often and are usually cheerful and happy even with a bit of a cold.

All are 48 hours for D&V though obviously.

You may be irrational here? 👀

Okay I’ll accept it and say nothing 😄 I’ll just cry into my huge pile of vomit washing instead and hope I get a break. Thanks all

I wish I had a better news for you but my DC are 14 (twins) and it’s still happening! Lots of parents are working full time and if their child is unwell they give them paracetamol in the morning and send them to school. And don’t get me started on bloody nits! We keep having emails since September about cases of nits in our class and lots of parents just ignore it so it keeps going in circles.