Anyone noticed their kids not getting general bugs and illnesses since march

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I was thinking today my dd hasn't had any coughs and colds she would normally get and my 5m old hasnt had any at all.
Obviously this is due to not doing what we would before. Playgroup, parks, swimming, soft play and childminder for the 2yr old.
She often had bugs of sorts.

I worry now they'll not have much of an immunity then when it all re opens, will things like common coughs and colds get confused with thinking people have covid?

Or am I being daft?

@Kokeshi123 that's a really interesting read and something I am very concerned about. I am so impressed by Japan's response.

Although I do believe this might be a wake up call for some childcare settings. My DS was in a nursery when I went back after maternity leave and the bugs he picked up were constant, quite often tummy upsets too. When I pulled him out to go to a childminder (who also looked after other children) all those bugs stopped. They certainly don't need to catch everything.

@SamSeabornforPresident - everyone can get a test now, including the under 5’s. They changed it a few weeks ago. No idea why the initially announced the over 5’s and a week later said everyone!

Well dd doesn't usually suffer at this time of year - she was almost continually poorly from Jan till March though. We've both had sore throats, dispute not having any contact with anyone else.
Chickenpox is really bad in my town at the moment, I'm not sure why as if everyone is at home, where are they getting it?

Yes, which means the return to nursery is just going to be filled with germs. It’s going to be like the first 6 months all over again, but worse because everyone is going to be on red alert.

Still in school, still had colds.

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"Their immune system will suffer"

Yup, just one of the many harms lockdown is doing to the populace."

Nope, just one of the many harms THE PANDEMIC is doing to the populace.

If you were in the blitz would you have blamed the bomb shelters for your lack of sleep too? Rather than the actual bombing raids?

And if everyone's been doing their best to distance, wash their hands etc then no there shouldn't be an explosion of bugs when kids go back in, because they won't have acquired them to pass on, surely?

DameFanny Lockdown is the government’s response to the pandemic to avoid overwhelming the NHS a with too many serious COVID cases at once. Lockdown is not actually caused by the pandemic
Side effects (Positive and negative) that wouldn’t have happened without lockdown are on the government.

Not even my kids, me too. I was forever coming down with the cold and bugs. I think I was probably a bit minging. Lol.

@Catastrofuck bomb shelters were the government's response to bombs dropping from the sky, what's your point?

Sorry, to expand, bomb shelters - public ones - were a terrible place to try to sleep, rife with sexual assault and petty thievery, and if one got a direct hit there'd be a mass of concentrated casualty.

Does that mean the government should have left everyone to stay at home and take their chances in a more distributed fashion?

The lockdown has been caused by the pandemic.

“ The lockdown has been caused by the pandemic.”

Ah you see you have now changed what you are saying. You originally blamed the negative effects of lockdown on the pandemic, not lockdown itself. The point is that you assume (1) that lockdown was the only way to deal with the pandemic and (2) that this way of doing lockdown was the only way to deal with the pandemic. It may be that both those things are true, that’s not what I’m debating. However, if immune systems are compromised it is not directly caused by the pandemic but by the government’s chosen response. They could have chosen a number of different ways, many of which have been debated on here as nauseam.

I’m not going to comment on your analogy because analogies are always easy to pick holes in (not least because bombs falling from the sky didn’t just happen like some freak weather pattern or something).

I do think it will be a bad winter after being protected from bugs for so long. Then again my 2 year old did manage to have a virus - high temperature, rash, lethargic etc right in the middle of lockdown.

Where do the normal coughs and colds and bugs come from? If it’s being passed around and catching it from other people surely being in lockdown means a lot of the bugs will have died/stopped with the person who had it as they won’t have been able to spread it around? There will be some continued spread from going to the shops etc but people are less likely to go out with cold symptoms anyway now?
It will be interesting to see what next winters flu season is like.
I know bugs travel the world - the flu in Australia’s winter is what we are likely to get the following winter but seeing as most of the world has been on lockdown......

As a rule we are generally quite healthy this time of year (Easter onwards) but I dread to think what is going to happen come September when my kids go back after such little exposure to the usual bugs and illnesses!

A three month break from viruses is not going to harm anyone's immune system and if anything will do everyone good.

@Crunchymum, there'll likely still be fewer in circulation because Norovirus and other nasties haven't been spreading during the lockdown.

Mine’s had tonsillitis and two bouts of snottiness. But her eczema’s cleared up!!

Nope. We never get ill during summer anyway, regardless of covid or not.

Same - fingers crossed head lice are a thing of the past too!

We are lucky to very rarely have anyone sick here. I can’t remember the last time anyone had a cold of vomit bug, this year or last. But weirdly one child had a random high temperature a few weeks into lockdown, no other symptoms other than feeling tired. Of course it triggered two weeks of full isolation for the rest of us but I’m still not sure why/how/what went on there.

The bugs will still be there, people like @PicsInRed have made sure of that by keeping kids in school with colds. Well done!

Yes! My DD had just turned 2 and is usually poorly at least once a month! To the point where she ended up having asthma treatment for a while for a constant cough (jury is still out on the diagnosis at her age). She's been at nursery throughout lockdown anyway as DH is a keyworker but not had a single illness. We are enjoying it so much!

It's not just children, but also adults who have not been ill recently. Unless and until a serious second wave of Covid comes around, don't be surprised if the ONS All-Deaths data now falls significantly below the average over the next several months. The first reason for this is that improved hygiene and social distancing, especially by the vulnerable, will results in lower prevalence of other diseases and hence fewer deaths. The second reason is the inordinate number of medically vulnerable and elderly who have died in the last 3 months who can't die again in the next few months.