Constant illness - no cause identified. De register from school??

[Yetanothervirus]

Dd is now 8. Since she started nursery at 3 it has been constant illness. The first year I expected it and we had a lot . HFM, sickness bugs, constant fevers and coughs / colds.

All vaccines up to date and good diet/vitamins.

We decided to vaccinate for C Pox as well.

We also had roseola virus made her really really unwell and she was hospitalised 3 times with croup and ‘viral wheeze’

Since then it’s been relentless except for during lockdown. just years of illness. Every other week she suddenly gets another fever and virus.Since last September we’ve had x 2 sickness bugs, 1 ear infection, 3 throat infections (1 with a chest infection at same time) , A UTI and multiple heavy colds with fevers for the first 1-2 days.

The GP says ‘normal childhood illness’. I pushed for bloods. All normal. We went privately for an ENT assessment and no abnormality again we were told just childhood illness.

Attendance is 49%

Dont really know what to do except de register to stop this cycle

Coeliac disease was my first thought and I see others have mentioned that too.

Definitely push for a referral.

My 23 year old DD is like this and has been since she was 5.She is and always has been constantly ill, one infection after another. She has bad allergies to dust, animals, pollen and more and has bad IBS. he is a primary school teacher which doesn't help. She just has to push through everything unless she is literally vomiting. She has had loads of blood tests and her neutrophils are really really low. She concentrates hard on doing all the things to build up immunity but it does not work!

Yeah I get a headache then a temp of 40c ish, shaking and shivering, pouring with sweat and then my bones ache for a good 48hrs

Bless you. How old are you?

Doctors like data OP so make a spreadsheet of your daughters infections and log her symptoms daily.

It’s no use going and saying she has minor infections because it’s too easy for the doctors to dismiss her symptoms as being normal viruses picked up at school.

Present them with the evidence and insist on a referral because what you have described is not normal.

41, diagnosed at 32

Hi OP, I hope you are getting to the bottom of this as must be so frustrating for you. Presuming the most obvious things have been ruled out, I'd ask (though probability is almost negligible) about primary immunodeficiency. My colleague has it and wasn't diagnosed till adulthood but was a very sickly child with no obvious cause.