She gets one every 2 weeks, we started one yesterday and that is another weekend ruined. She is streaming and coughing up snot throughout the night. We get little sleep in these alternate weeks. She had an ear infection 10 days ago and now says it hurts again. I'm at the end of my tether. She started school in September and has had one or two days off on these weeks. When I take her to the Dr I get a sympathetic face accompanied by a standard sentence about the immune system not being developed at this age. I have had to give up a college course as I went over the minimum attendance requirement in the first term! Her 3 year old sister gets about 3 colds a year despite being showered with sneezes and having soggy tissues thrown at her. Is there such a thing as a sicky kid who will always get ill? She was BF for a couple of weeks and her sister was FF.
She also spends the summer on piriton as she has hayfever which started when we moved to this house (lots of trees around) is then affected by the leaf mould in the autumn. Poor little bugger. I keep her home on the day after she has lost the night's sleep and if she feels well enough the next day I send her in. The last three colds the school have sent her home on the next day. She should be running around having fun with her mates but she looks knackered and run down. Would a pro-biotic help? I can't give her echinacea because of the hayfever. I'll try anything!