When do the colds stop?

[Mushroo]

My LO started nursery in January and is really enjoying it, but she's had a cold constantly since starting.

I knew to expect this but I just feel so bad for her! She's so miserable and sniffly with a horrible cough.

When can I expect it to tail off? Spring? After a year? Never?!

My son is nearly 5 and has been in nursery since he was 2.5. For about a year it was constant illness, then after that he maybe had about 10 colds a year 🫠 It has only just started to become less frequent now. Was always worse over winter when they were inside more. My daughter has recently started attending and doesn't seem to pick up as many, but she has always had the exposure from her brother, so her immune system has been building up even at home. My son got his tonsils and adenoids out last year, and things have improved a lot since then.

For us it was 12 months of constant coughs, colds, fevers and stomach bugs. It was awful!

Then it just suddenly stopped. He's 5 now and still gets colds occasionally but generally just gets on with it.

His younger brother didn't get ill for the first 6 months of nursery but I was still breastfeeding back then. Since I stopped, about a year ago, he does occasionally get ill but it's like once every couple of months. Constant runny nose though!

A good 9months of continuous cold symptoms, but they also get a lot of other common childhood illnesses in that same time too (HF&M, chicken pox, D&V bugs etc) so it really does feel like a constant battle that first year.

After that, we found that both of ours didn't get ill often at all. Eldest is 8 and hasn't been off sick for years.

Thanks, gosh sounds like we're in for the long haul then! I feel so bad for her, she's so miserable :(

(And I'm not enjoying the constant colds either!)

Ours as well was about 9 months of awfulness, at one point he'd had about 3 courses of antibiotics in about 2 months. It got so bad, we took him to the GP who assured it was normal and if things didn't improve after a year, they would look into things further.

Things got better quite suddenly and he's 2.9 now and literally only had about a handful of cold/illnesses in well over a year! He's had about one cold this winter and it was a minor one at that!