How much illness is too much?

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DD is 9 nearly 10. She's generally well, had the usual run of childhood illnesses last two school years only had one day off each year.

Since she went back to school in September she has had at least 6 colds and has woken up today again full of cold and a chesty cough, she's also had a nasty sinus infection before half term. It feels like she has only been well a week or two before she gets another. GP thinks it's fairly normal so do I just chalk it up to a bad year or something else?

Her diet is fairly good, she has good hand hygiene, she takes an elderberry supplement but she's starting to look really worn down. Called GP again today but they can't see her until the second week in January.

Has she finished school now?

I’d get her a daily multi-vitamin, and make sure she eats plenty of fruit & veg and gets plenty of rest and sleep throughout the holiday. The autumn term can be exhausting.

I think it's a bad year for it, I myself have been ill constantly for what feels like months with short reprieves in between. DD1 who is never ill ever has had 3 or 4 instances since summer.

She finishes tomorrow, I know this term is a rough one, half term was a week early in our borough so it's been an 8 week term, this has been going on since the second week back in September though?

Yes Happy it must be a bad year, DH and my older DD have also been poorly recently and they just never get ill. Fingers crossed a good rest over Xmas will sort her out.

We’ve had a rough term of it too whereas normally we’d have a cold (for each child) and perhaps one other illness. This term we’ve had colds, croup, coughs, and all sorts of other random things thrown in such as urine infections and oral thrush. I reckon they’re just very run down hence catching everything going

Sounds like several unusually good years are being balanced out by a bad one.