Hmmm actually I'm getting abit freaked out by so much illnes in my house now...

[ladytophamhatt]

[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=487930#9846360 I started this one the other day about it]]

and since then Dh ahs got/had D&V again, ds3 has the squits and now ds4 woke up this morning with his eye totally crusted closed with conjunctivitis.

This much illness just isn't normal, is it??

8 bouts of D&V.
2 lots of chicken pox.
2 lots of tonsilitus
1 ear infection
Ongoing disgusting phlemmy coughs.
Snot by the lorry load.
The runniest poos ever.
and now conjunctivitus.

all since Xmas.

Joking aside I am little concerned.

this one even

ooh much sympathy
I had a whole summer holidays with both children like this a few years back..culminating in scarlet fever for both of them.
You start to go a little crazy after a bit don't you !
Mine just got really run down i think and carried on getting one thing after another.Ds had blood tests in the end.

We've been pretty well since then though

Hope you all pick up soon

Flippin heck! That's alot of illness. You all sound a bit run down. You need some sunshine..can't remember the last time we were ill, the sun is a wonderful tonic!

Hope you all feel better soon

for you

LTHH I can sympathise. Since Christmas we have had:

Gastroenteritis (sp!)
Coughs & colds
Flu
Sickness bugs

We all got the flu bug at different times then passed it back to one another again. The last 3 weekends at least one of us has been in bed all weekend.

Then:
conjunctivits (viral and it lasted for at least a week).
Then:
A car accident (ok no germs involved but still).

I have started to think are we clean enough / too clean. Is it because DS goes to too many playgroups (2 a week) and just general irrational type thoughts.

I am sure that we've just had a run of bad luck, but I feel like the profit of doom. Whenever anybody asks how DS is I've had a negative reply (he's ok but he's got.....)

Thanks for the sun shione McD.

Fortunatley I haven't been ill at all. I must have the immune system of an Ox!

LTH - we are in chicken Pox hell here. DS2 has recovered and is back at school, meanwhile the other three have it. DS4 is especially bad - two sleepless nights so far, he seems immune to Piriton.

Hope your lot are on the mend soon. We need some sunshine to kill off these bugs.

xposts with McDreamy on the sunshine thing .

Poor you Lots of sympathy, it's horrible when this sort of thing happens.

Ooodles of sympathy for you as my list looks much the same as yours:

Since Xmas,
D&V on repeat
2 x conjunctivitis (DS and me),
3 x tonsillitis (DS and me)
1 x labyrinthitis (viral inner ear infection)
1 x chesty cough - ongoing forever!

eczema - terrible with all hand washing
asthma - caused by all the coughing

miserable coz feel I must be doing something wrong

DS is full time in nursery and I think he's bringing it all home and I'm passing it to me through contact.

Thank god no chicken pox. Guess got to be grateful its all low key stuff but its very tiring. Am waiting for gladular fever results for me - should get this afternoon. Got to the point where I don't know if its best to have positive or negative, IYKWIM.

Could be that they've been weakened by the first virus and so are more susceptible to getting another?

Try giving them tonic to build them up again, replacing some minerals and vitamins they've lost through the illness would be good.

Is your house damp at all? Dampness can make viruses linger for longer. Keep windows open in bedrooms for a while to circulate some fresh air. Pull back bedclothes to air the beds.

Hope they come round soon!

Just back from the doctors with more medicine- eye drops for ds4. We've had more trips to the docs so far this yr then in the previous 2 yrs since we moved here

I can pretty much gaurantee ds4 is going to get the squits soon too. Ds3 caught it drinking from DH's glass so the bug was passed over....earlier on I found ds4 drinking from ds3's cup so he's bound to get it now, and yesterday my little mindee drank what ds3 had left(thi swas before the hourly trips to the loo started) so he'll get it too.

Arrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Mega, it was my ds4 who had CP the worst too. He was literally covered in them. I've ever seen anything like it, it scared me TBH because he was soooo ill. I've never had a child being that ill before and it scared the life out of me (I even creid on teh phone to NHS direct!!)
Piriton didn't work for him either and I think it actually made him abit hyper, kind of like a suger rush but prolonged!
The porrage oats bath worked really well with ds4. I lef the oats in their socks/stocking in the bath with him and used them as a sponge to cover him in the slimy goo that comes out. He loved it and it seemed to give him alot more relief from the itchyness then anything else, and they dried up really quickly once the first scabs started to appear.

Rhurb, house isn;t damp and is quite drafty even withoutthe windows open. I do open them quite alot but it gets really cold really quickly because teh house quite big.

I will get some vitamins for them all though, so thanks for that idea

Roll on summer is all I can say!!

We had a year like this once, and it felt like hell.

It started with a sickness bug that we all got, and then dd1 and dd2 got chicken pox, followed by the flu, and then dd2 got pnuemonia and spent a week on okygen in hospital and then the day she got out dd1 got an ear infection.

The only thing I can say is that we have never had another winter liek that, so hopefully you will be in the clear for next year.

Tis nutty btw.

sorry to hear of all the illness LTH - this winter seems to have been a particularly bad one for illneess. Apparently it's because it's been mild so no frosts to kill off all the germs. My dsis and her family have had flu like symptoms on and off since Chrimbo, as have my parents

Try getting them some sambucol (you can get it from Victoria health) - it boosts their immune systems. I've given it to mine at the start of each term for 2 weeks, and - touching all the trees in the forest - they haven't had anything other than 1 day each with a temperature since before last summer. It's now on my list of must-have-in-the-house.

LTH - I left a sobby hysterical message on my (usually very brilliant) HV's phone this morning as DS4 was scaring me too. She hasn't phoned back yet. He was screaming in pain, it's so hard to pick hikm up as he is so sore. I did the oats in the bath for him about an hour ago, plus another dose of Piriton and some Calpol, he has finally calmed down and is watchinh monsters Inc (again).

DS1 and DS3 are spotty but otherwise OK.

Full sympathy LTH it is awful. I have just been in the house now for almost 7 weeks! I had dts with Shingles, followed by chicken pox x3, all a week apart!

The school run has been the highlight of my day

This is a drawback of having so many children i find.

Hope they all improve soon, pump them full of veg and fruit along with some vitamin tonic like Minadex (sp?)

ohh Mega, DS4 was exactlt the same....I coulsdn't pick him up because the spots were so angry and red it hurt him.
He was inconsolable...and so was I

Thankfully it doesn't look like he's got any bad scaring, one or 2 have left definatle scars and he is covered in hundered of purple pox marks but I don't think they'll scar.
Ds3 has some horrible scars from his, one on his rib cage looks like a cigarette burn(!!!) but he was as fit as a fiddle with it.