Hi - I'm partly just whinging, but partly desparately hoping that someone might have some magic advice on how to improve things.
I am early 40s and I have a primary school age child and twin toddlers who attend nursery 4 days a week. I barely go anywhere as I work from home and only socialising I do is basically around what the kids do.
I am just so fed up as I can hardly remember the last time I was well - well actually I DO remember - it was in summer, for about 2 weeks. Since then I have had every cold that is in existence it feels like and a number of stomach bugs too and I seem be hit for harder and longer than ever before and I get sore throats a lot and I just feel so exhausted from it all. Just to add that the only thing I DONT seem to have had so far is covid (I am doing LFTs all the time as I do them every time my school age child does and we do them 2x a week minimum as there have been cases at school and I've done plenty PCR test too whenever a new cough starts).
I take a multi-vitamin daily, I eat ok (but could def be better) I don't get enough exercise as don't do any 'activity' but I'm kept on my toes by my crazy toddler twins, so I'm not sedentary. My sleep is disturbed often as twins also seem to get a LOT of snotty bugs which means they don't sleep well and I'm just so so tired of there not being a time when we are all well. It's just depressing in a general sense and actually I think it's beginning to get me to the point of actually being depressed. I just feel so low as I'm so tired of being not right. It's not helped at all by the fact that I have eczema - I've had it all my life, but it's been managed fine most of my adult life - but in the last few months it's been AWFUL. It's terrible on my face and hands and arms. I have no idea what's causing it as nothing has changed, but it's just this constant burning itch sensation all the time and it makes me look even older due to the horrible rashes and puffiness on my face.
Anyway, this all adds up to me feeling totally fed up. What can I do to be healthier to make me less susceptible to all these stupid colds? I worry that when (I'd say if, but seems more a when) I do get covid that I'll be hit hard as my immune system seems shit - but even covid aside I'm just so fed up. Until this year I wouldn't say I was any more likely that anyone else to get things. I usually get a couple of crappy colds each year, but I've lost count of how many I've had already since summer - unless they are the same one just pretending to almost go away and then come back...
I am assuming I'm getting them all from kids picking them up at nursery - they are getting everything too poor little things - but short of pulling them out and getting a nanny, (which I am considering!) I don't know what I can do about it..?
Help!
Is it my age? Are there some amazing supplements I can take? Should I take the kids out of nursery so we aren't exposed to so many bugs? Are there just way more cold type bugs around due to covid meaning we are being hit with them all at once from being released from lockdown? Please help! Thanks