Give me immune boosting ideas please! 🙏🏼

[Daqqe]

I am seriously loosing the plot with the level of illness my children have had in the last 6 months. My 5 year old has had 6 stomach bugs since September, 4 of which the rest of the household obviously caught 🤦🏼‍♀️ Plus between both DDs, we’ve had chicken pox, Scarlett fever, covid twice, several episodes of tonsillitis, an ear infection & your usual coughs & colds.

It’s INSANE. I’m pretty sure my manager at work thinks I’m making half of it up 🥴

What can I do to at least feel like I’m boosting their immune systems? In particular in defence of stomach bugs? I can’t cope with any more washing 😫 They both take a multivitamin.. is there anything else I can do? They both eat quite well, always get their 5 a day etc..

Please send help 🙈🙈

Yeo Valley live organic yoghurt to put good gut bacteria back after the stomach bugs. They do a children's version. That is a lot of stomach bugs, do they know to wash there hands after being in the toilet at school before eating or putting their fingers in their mouth if they suck their fingers/thumb? Stomach bugs/norovirus are caught by ingesting the virus....... Sorry yuck I know!
There's a tonic suitable for children made from elderberries that's suppose to support the immune system but I can't remember the name of it at the moment perhaps somebody else will🤔 to be honest I think it's two years of not socialising/mixing so much, everybody I know seems to be getting ill, especially younger ones.💐

Biocare elderberry complex for children - you can buy it on Amazon (just under a tenner) but I can’t work out how to link . Not that it stopped my kids getting covid twice in 6 months!

Lots of sleep (tricky - but can you get them to bed earlier?)

I thought kids built up immunity by grubbing around on floors, eating snails and mixing a lot with other humans.

So start with floor play, gardens, parks etc and build up to lots of mixing.

Yes to kefir, live yogurt etc.

I say no more

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I’m currently experiencing the same with my 4 children..one thing after the other cannot catch a break..trying to get the good stuff (homemade elderberry syrup ..seamoss..supplements etc) into them is the challenging bit especially when nothing works if there is no consistency!

Sounds ridiculous but are they eating lots of fruit and veg? The immune response starts in the gut and you need a wide variety of good bacteria in your micro biome to do that. Good bacteria need lots of fruit, veg and whole foods (eg. Brown bread, pasta rice) to feed on. Refined, ultra processed, sugary foods do not feed the good bacteria, in fact the opposite.

To introduce good bacteria give them kefir every day (you can get fruit flavoured ones). At the first sign of a sniffle elderberry syrup by the spoonful, i also swear by raw honey from a beekeeper (not a supermarket).

Dont use any hand sanitisers on them they need to be exposed to bacteria good and bad.

Give them raw carrots with the skin on and dont take the skin off apples etc.

My children also drink an effervescent vitamin drink daily.

Outside play and dirt is definitely beneficial. I work for a nursery agency and I am currently in a placement which is inside of a park.

The children spend most of the days outside and I can see the difference in illness between these children and the children in nurseries that have tiny, concrete outside areas.