Teachers How do you stop getting sick?

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I've just started teaching infants and seem to pick up everything going from them. How do you all aviod being sick all the time?

After a while you develop a resistance. But for the first year (and my pgce year actually) I was ill all of the time. I got hardier after that.

Take vitamins and that thing that I can never pronounce that stops you getting colds.

Will try, what's that thing you can't pronounce?

At the beginning you really do get everything, just like they do when they start school.

Then you get hardier.

Touch wood and all, I don't get any of it any more.

I'm afraid it's an occupational hazard but after a few years you do build up some immunity couple that with not having time to be ill you only secumb and collapse during school holidays.

echinacea
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Echinacea, I expect.

Yes, you will build up one hell of an immunity and will henceforth only be ill the second you break up.

Thanks everyone!

I think it is just one of the hazards of the job.
On the last day of the Christmas Term I cheerfully announced 'I haven't been off ill all term' (we had lots of staff illness).
Of course, this term I have been almost continually ill and run down.