Last winter DD was 6-11 months (dec- April) and had what felt like a non stop stream of colds with teething the rest of the time. Along came spring and it all cleared up no bother.
Then since last October shes has a nasty cold (16 months) bronchiolitis (in November, 17 months), colds before Christmas and after new year (around 18 months) then at end of January another cold that didn't seem to bad but with a nasty cough that still has not completely gone 6 weeks later (her nose runs constantly too, sometimes clear, sometimes green / yellow, sometimes more sometimes less).
And now she has another one, with a bit of a temperature, cough ramping up again, unhappy, won't eat, out of sorts.
She's basically had some sort of cough/ cold/ runny nose almost all the time since the start of this year, an with only a few short breaks since October.
Is this normal? Is it ok?
I do take her to the Drs if she seems particularly bad but I am wary of antibiotics. She's only ever had one course, as a baby last winter and they really upset her digestive system - she didn't poo for over a week and had constipation intermittently for months after. I had loads of antibiotics as a child and really suffered the effects as an adult so I try to keep them to a minimum. So the Drs offered us some for the cold 6 weeks ago but she didn't have them as it didn't seem too serious (temp never went over 39, stayed engaged and wanting to play.)
So please tell me about your experience of endless colds in young children. Will it get better on its own as spring comes? Or has she got some underlying chest infection which won't clear up without treatment?
All advice gratefully received!