Hi all.
My just turned 2 year old has had non stop coughs and colds since September. She goes to a creche 2 mornings a week. She hasn't had a proper night's sleep due to being bunged up or coughing in months. She has been checked multiple times by doctors who say viral, until last week a high temp, and more coughing was diagnosed as ear infection, which she had 5 days of antibiotics for. The infection has cleared but again, she now has a cold, with really runny nose and full of mucus.
I feel really bad for her as she has literally not had a break and is usually a happy, easy going toddler but is spending the majority of her time miserable. She's only actually is in creche 50% of the time since she's usually sick .
It's really affecting me mentally as I hate seeing her sick, I'm constantly worrying about her, I'm now afraid to take her anywhere at all in case she picks something up, I'm not getting much sleep with all the coughing etc, and my husband and I are having to take lots of time of work.
She hasn't been to creche in over a week now as I wanted her to recover from the ear infection. However, I feel like pulling her out of creche, can't decide whether to send her tomorrow.
I know toddlers do get sick a lot at this time of year but this seems to be more than the average child when even her creche are commenting on how often she is sick and friends with kids never experienced this level of illnesses. She has also been going for a year and a half now so not like she's just being newly exposed to all the viruses.
What would you do? I'm mentally exhausted trying to decide.
Thank you