Constantly poorly baby

[Lynsy]

DD is 14 months old and seems to be constantly ill, it has been on and off for the last 7months but worse since October and has only been better for about 6weeks since. It seems to be one thing after the other tonsiltis, ear infections, chesty coughs, tempertatures, sickness, conjunctivitas, soon as she gets over one thing she is hit with another. My concern is that she never seems to eat properly, I understand that when your poorly you don't want to eat but has bearly eaten properly in the last 2 weeks. Sick of going to the doctors just to be told there is nothing to worry about and just to give her her calpol and let her fight it out, it will help build her immune system
I feel so sorry for her and wish I could take it all away - is this normal? Is there anything else I can do, don't want to keep giving her medicine after medicine, but just don't know what else to do.

BUMP

Of course you want it to all go away you are her mum, your supposed to feel like that.
Some kids do seem more prone to getting one thing after another espeially when there's lots of bugs around they are still fighting one when another one takes hold before they have time to recover properly.
Is she at nursery? These things are more likely if she is.
There isn't a great deal you can do exept keep her comfortable and give lots of cuddles.

No she is not at nursery, just aswell. What I meant to say is it normal for babies to be so ill all the time, it's all so new to me. It's so hard as she is such happy little thing when she is well and just so upsetting to see her so ill all the time, like you say lots of tlc, I jsut worry and never know what is normal when it comes to babies, but then I suppose who does.
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she must be picking all this up from somewhere. Do you take her to groups?

I think this time of year is bad, obviously, but maybe you need to work on her immune system.

You could try giving her pro biotics, or perhaps taking her to see a homeopath?

Also she has had a temperature for the last 2 days calpol brings it down but is constantly between 38.5 and 39.5, thought it might be teething but read on MN earlier that teething temperatures shouldn't be really high.

I take her to tumbletots, and music but I haven't been recenlty due to the fact she has been so poorly. She is tiny little thing and doesn't eat well at the best of times which I don't think helps, so do give her vitamins. II think I am going to try some alternative therapies as don't believe it can be good for her taking medicine all the time. x

Not sure if this helps much, but I am having the same problem with my DS age 3. He seems to be ill every bloody week. He develops horrendous temps at night and then is ok during the day. He hasn't gone a month without a cough since November and has a cold every other week.

I am pretty sure that some children are just prone to picking things up Lyndsey and having asked my Health Visitor (ex midwife for 35 years) about it today, she said the same.

Lets hope they are developing immune systems that will withstand an attack from aliens in the future.

Oh and DS hardly eats either, so I am trying to give as much fruit as I can. He only likes strawberrys & apples at the moment, so he gets em in droves.

Also giving the Haliborange cod liver oil vitamin thingy, but it hasn't made much difference.

Thanks everyone. I know how you feel UCM, it just feels endless, and just when I think she is getting over the last thing the next thing comes along, it's exhausting,she wakes every night at least twice at the moment. Always try and give her what I know she likes to eat but even then she just picks.

Doctor did say this is good as it is builidng her immune system - not sure poor dd feels the same.