Hi All,
A parent of a two year old looking for a bit of advice.
Our son started nursery a little over a year ago (March 2021) and since then he's been having essentially one continuous respiratory infection :
March 2021 started nursery
By July 2021 had to go on antibiotics
In August 2021 we went on an extended holiday for 4 weeks. Made nice full recovery.
Started nursery in September. Within 2 weeks full nose and loads of snot.
By December infection got so bad again that he had to be on antibiotics. During Christmas break he got better.
In January started nursery again and in two weeks the infection was back.
His nose is completely stuffed with dark yellow to light green snot coming out constantly. Luckily we managed to teach him how to blow his nose, but it's so bad he cannot breathe through his nose properly and every morning wakes up with half his face covered in dried snot, which is not very pleasant and could lead to stuff like conjunctivitis. God knows how much snot he'd swallow at night.
So, what do we do? We can't not have him in the nursery. What's should I be asking the GP?
He clearly has an underlying bacterial infection affecting his respiratory tract. Can the GP do a swab if his nose and send it to a lab for analysis?
Any help would be great.