How to stop child bringing home viruses and bugs?

[Megsh85]

I’ve posted before because I’ve been constantly ill the last six months with cold after cold DD brings home from nursery. I assume nursery because it all started when she started nursery. I’ve only had a few days of not feeling ill and I’m on my knees.

I wash her hands where possible, she takes a liquid multivitamin, I feed her veg and fruit (if she’s not chucking it across the room, she’s 1) she’s healthy but always got some sort of sniffle.

any tips please? I don’t know how much more I can cope.

Honestly, there's not much you can do other than give it time. It does get better. My DS is in his final year at nursery and hasn't had a cold for about 18 months.

You need to build your own immune system

Kids and bugs go hand in hand

I’d love to offer an answer for this but I think it’s part and parcel of nursery. It’s grim. Is there anything you could do to try to boost your immune system? Check for vitamin deficiencies and things like that?

Have you tried bubble wrap?

Washing hands will help, but for both of you it is really a case of building up immunity, and the only way you can do that is by catching the bugs in the first place.

A healthy diet, lots of fresh air in the house, plenty of exercise outside, and time as a previous poster said.

Oh, and just as you build up immunity to the nursery bugs it will be time to graduate to the Reception class bugs, where the same applies.

You can't. It's normal for kids and important for their immune systems to catch all the bugs.

You can have a go at obsessional handwashing but honestly it's not going to make a massive difference.

It's awful, huge sympathy. There isn't much you can do other than eat a good diet, wash hands and stay outside as much as possible! I've never been one for multi vitamins but one probably couldn't hurt for you. Approx 6/7 months after starting nursery was a turning point for us where frequency of illnesses started to reduce. Like you it was weekly until then and I too was on my knees. This year she's had a handful of colds and chicken pox and I finally feel like I've got a handle on life and work again (most of the time). Hang in there, you might turn a corner soon x