Do you have children that are sick a lot? Even when not ill?

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Mine is. I've never really worried too much as it seems to be just one of those things and I hope he will grow out of it - but anything can set him off, like running about too much, laughing, and especially coughing.

He has a cough at the moment andisn't ill otherwise, just seems to cough a lot when he first goes to bed - just now he was a bit sick but is asleep and has stopped coughing.

I get really anxious that each time he has a coughing fit he is going to chuck all over the bed/me/his brother! It's stopping me sleeping (emetophobe) and I just started to wonder if it is normal to be so easily sick?

He is nearly 5 by the way.

I've never been like that - very rarely throw up. He's a strange child

Has he seen a doctor, because I think asthma can cause this.

Really?

I know he was diagnosed with very mild asthma, possibly, when I took him to the doctors aged 2? because he would cough after running around. He was prescribed an inhaler but we didn't like to use it as he never seemed to have trouble breathing etc. just would get a bit coughy.

I'm not sure what to do now...perhaps back to GP in that case. Thanks Christy. I do feel a bit stupid!

DD1 is sick at the drop of a hat! Could be excitement, wrong food - you name it we've tried to pin point the cause. We can go for weeks without an event - then bang. She'll tell us she feels sick hours before the "event" and then it usually over and done with in bout of vomiting. I've read up and there's something called Cyclical vomiting Syndrome - could be that! It does say though that GP's struggle to diagnose (because of the sheer randomness) - and when you do get a confirmation - there is magic cure! It's just one of those things! I just keep hoping she grows out of it.

Sorry - one bout of vomiting and there's NO magic cure!

My 4 yo has only ever been sick once (last summer)- apart from baby milk sick (yum). I think that's quite uncommon though, I know some children are regularly sick.

DD2 was forever being sick (without a bug)when she was smaller. I swear she had a gastric reflux when she was a baby and was left with a bit of a weakness for a little while. She also seemed to have a cough for alot of the time till she was about 3 which seemed to clear up once she stopped teething.

Certain foods made her heave (rice and mashed potato particularly, which she still won't eat today aged nine.)But she did grow out of it as she got older.