Hello, I feel you. May 2018 my DD started nursery. I was so excited for her. But unfortunately she got back to back colds and temperatures. Then October came around and she got two stomach bugs six weeks apart then a horrible case of tonsilitis. Her baby brother was also collecting half of her viruses.
March 2019 10 months after she started we were still all constantly Ill. I woke up one morning to my son aged 14 months by this point struggling to breathe. He had been hot the night before and seemed like he was getting a cold again. By this point my family were not interested when I said we had another virus. They were at the point of you are always Ill. Even suggested allergies and heyfever too me. I was very upset that people had lost interest in my kids!
Anyway I took my son up a&e and the Dr looked him over and gave him Calpol and said his throat was swollen but no sign of a chest infection. She was about to send us home when they checked his temp and it was 39. She then gave him another dose of calpol and he was hooked up to an IV drip, a canula was put into his little hand and bloods were taken. We then were sent by ambulance to a hospital with a chdrens ward. They did an x-ray and discovered he had a patch of pnunomia on his lung. He was I. Hospital for three nights and then we continued to give him meds at home for ten days. It was a horrible long road. I cut my DD nursery hours down to six at this point and kept her home mostly until she started school this September.
After the hospital visit we had a holiday. Booked 5 weeks later in the UK by the coast. We spent 2 weeks near the sea and honestly they came back much healthier. They have had three colds since may which is amazing. We currently have a cold now as DD has been at school six weeks. But it's mild. I am scared of this winter.
I'm so sorry for the long post. I find it all abit upsetting. People have to work, send their kids into nursery sick and then other kids end up in hospital or on antibiotics. It is a part of life and I do understand they will pick up colds and stuff. I also understand they will get these things at some point. But clearly children are going in Poorly and should be home.
I remember collecting my DD once from nursery and this child was coughing and her eyes were streaming. She had to stop running to catch her breath. I'm sorry but she should of been home resting. These poor kids end up so run down because parents can't take time off to care for them when they are Ill. I know coughs linger etc but if you are not able to function properly you are not well enough for nursery. Also when my DD had tonsilitis I rang up and said she's in antibiotics and not well so she won't be in. Her nursery manager said she can come in tomorrow once she had been on them for 24 hours. I was shocked. My DD was asleep sat up and unable to eat or lie down! No way was she well enough. But that explains why things are so bad as other parents will send their kids in with antibiotics and bad throats as the manager has volunteered to look after them in that condition 