My 1 year old NEVER gets our stomach bugs

[Jessie2024]

I’m not exactly looking for advice, I’m just looking for someone to give me some sort of explanation 😂. Since my 15 month old started nursery 6 months ago, myself and my partner have had FOUR stomach bugs. They’ve all been pretty horrid, but our girl hasn’t got any of them! Is this a pretty normal thing for that age group? Everyone else I know seems to think it’s odd, but there must be a reason!

@cherrycherrypickin yep it’s brutal, but it’s something myself and my partner have never ever dealt with, until our daughter started nursery. So it must be that! Definitely not food poisoning, as I eat the same thing as our daughter and she has never caught it. And my partner eats different things to me due to our opposite working hours, as well as me being vegetarian. Plus we’ve passed the bugs to other people around us before 😭. I honestly think it’s just the sudden germs from her starting nursery

My LB brings home all sorts, he had cold for months after starting nursery but has never had a bad stomach. We all had slapped cheek which is awful for D&V, he had a couple of full nappies but nothing at all like the rest of us, it just seems like nursery toddlers have stronger stomachs. Snotty noses however….

My daughter is never sick either. It’s her sixth birthday today and she’s hardly been unwell at all. She had Covid once, bit of a runny nose etc, and the odd cold. She had chicken pox at the same time as having Covid and was barely even feeling unwell. The only time she’s been off school was when she had overflow diarrhea when she was constipated and when she had impetigo.

Some kids are just lucky I guess!

Got yourself a little typhoid Mary!! 🤪 Joking aside, like others have said, her immune system doesn't react to certain bugs but does to others. Think how an average cold effects us, women can run a home and a business, look after 20 hyper shit kids and run a marathon with a cold, but it'll totally floor a bloke.

This is really interesting, I wonder am I also one of these few, and my DS, though we are not geneticallyrelated as I said? Does it go with generally good immune system as I get very few illnesses of any kind. And my DS not only hasn't had a stomach bug ever, he also never got nits even when they were in the class! So lucky!

As a family of 5 (youngest now an adult) I can count on the fingers on one hand the number of time a tummy bug passed between members of the family. It never went round everyone, and only once went more than two members.
We also, as a family tend not to get tummy bugs either (on more than one occasion my dc had 8 or fewer left in their class and they were never caught it).
I'm not sure why because I never worried about bleaching everything or keeping apart etc.
Ds in particular seems to have quite a low immune system and catches almost anything else and is really ill.

Dsis' family if one gets it, then the others all will get it, sometimes it runs through the family twice. They're very careful about keeping apart and disinfecting etc.

I think it's just one of those things.

This has happened to us a few times with two kids in nursery. In my experience the “carrier” has a weird nappy the day before…like the poo is a strange colour, sometimes pale, and smells a bit weird. But they’re not unwell. The last time this happened I saw the nappy and called it the day before I was ill (and child was fine!)

My daughter is never ill. I do worry as I was never ill for a few years then got diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. I'm on immunosuppressive meds now and I'm still hardly ill, my immune system is turbo charged

Same here. I’ve never had a stomach bug in my life