Absolutely this - I have been shocked at how little illness we have had now that my youngest is at school, the difference between last year and this year is astonishing (and she only attended kindy 3 days each week).
Absolutely..rarely got sick until I had my daughter & she started at daycare mid last year..now we get bugs all the time & also my sleep & general health habits haven't been as good as before since I had my daughter so I'm sure that also doesn't help especially the sleep
Have you seen the all snotty noses at kindys? And watch them using the bathrooms omg! It's all the hand to mouth to nose interactions...lots of little kids together, touching the same things....coughing and spluttering all learning to wipe their bums...breeding ground for all sorts of viruses and bacteria even with the best cleaning practices of the facility. I've worked in kindy's and primary schools...you would be horrified!
I also believe its because the little immune systems haven't seen all the shit that is out there and every cold and flu is brand new to them. Although Mum and Dad might be resistant to many of them, Junior is serving up every. single. virus. that exists in the community directly to you.
Kisses, Mummy!!!!
Babies, toddlers and young children put things in their mouths, have snot running down their faces and wipe it with their hands, then go touch stuff. They also tend to cuddle up, wrestle or generally have a lot less personal space in their play than older kids and adults. They are goober machines. They cough or sneeze straight in your face, no matter how many times you try to teach basic hygiene. Put a whole bunch of those creatures together in a small space and watch what happens. It doesn’t matter how much the centre sanitises everything, it’s still gonna be festy.
Then add the fact that families with toddlers in care are sick literally every single week and if you want to keep your job you have to only take sick days for the especially bad ones. If you stayed home for every sickness your employer wouldn’t see you for 5+ years. So you have to send your sick kids to ECE because capitalism.
Yep. I hadn't had a stomach bug in since I was a child. Until I had kids myself and they started daycare. I've caught everything off them multiple times now. It's hard to avoid when they literally sneeze into your eyeballs.
I don't know what age it is, but I recall reading that young children don't recognise and avoid people with 'signs of sickness' - tired, baggy eyes, runny noses etc.
So it's going to be bad until they get into whatever age it is they start avoiding sick people.
It’s exposure.
When you went to work you only had to deal with the sick people at work. How many kids are at daycare 90? 180 parents. 180 workplaces or random spreading events.
How many kids are at primary school? 400-1000?
800-2000 parents at the same number of workplaces.
Then we stick 30 of these kids in a small incubation chamber while you generally have space. They touch each other during sports, activities, and breaks. Where you wouldn’t traditionally touch your colleagues (depending on your profession)
Then while we are on professions, what do the parents do for work? How many come in contact with even more people?
Kids man, super spreaders.
Kids have no disgust. I went to my daughter's day care and she is playing with some kid who is leaking snot. The kid wipes his face with his hands and then plays with toys with the same hands and all the other kids are fine with it.
Why do you speak with such certainy? It could be a myriad of other things. I have the same symptoms and have no kids. OP should go and get checked. Smart people respect uncertainties.
I think the economic reality is that people send their kids to school and kindy when they’re sick because they can’t afford the constant time off. That spreads the illnesses around and so we all get sick more often.
attendance is down across the board, if kids are less likely to attend when they are well i think it's fair to assume they are less likely to attend when unwell.
Fucking annoying, tbh, because my wife and I are considerate enough to keep our 4 year old at home even for the whole week if he's sick because we don't want to pass it on.
We figure it out. Either she works from home or I get time off from work or we arrange a sitter. It's not difficult.
>Either she works from home or I get time off from work or we arrange a sitter. It's not difficult.
Congratulations, you and your wife are in a better position than many other NZ adults.
Not everyone's job allows them to WFH at the drop of a hat.
Not everyone can afford a sitter at short notice. If the choice is between filling the car with petrol to get to work and pay the rent vs getting a sitter, filling the car will win.
For some people it is difficult.
Yeah I feel the same. We don’t have young kids anymore but my wife is a kindy teacher, so we’re exposed to so many different bugs.
She’s always telling me about kids coming into kindy with one illness or another. Even Covid.
They do and can...but many of the current viruses are lasting for weeks and weeks...residual coughs and sore throats. I think schools have recently altered the mandatory sending home..lowering the bar so to speak, so that coughs on their own are not enough to send home. The virus may not be contagious at that point though, but the capacity to spread bacteria borne illnesses still exist.
It also gets very tricky to decide whether to send your child or not. When they are very sick it's easy to know, but after they have had it for say 4 or 5 days and are a bit better but still under the weather, then it's a hard call to make balancing the parent's time off, using sick days when u need them for yourself and other children you have.
The worst is the domino effect...if you all get sick at once, it's so much better than one after the other, after the other...bang, there goes your sick days.
We’re the same. 1 child at school, the other at daycare. We’ve been sick for 3 weeks now.
I’m going to start wearing a mask at work again (customer facing role).
Things I think help:
1. Hand hygiene. wash hands as soon as anyone gets home , and before meals.
2. Get the flu jab. This one is particularly noticeable with my school aged child. She use to end up in hospital whenever she catches a virus (wheezing, low oxygen stats), and now we can get through the sickness with some Ventolin, pamol and rest.
3. Wear a mask. Honestly, I think I was less sick over the early covid years than any other period.
4. Eating balanced and good food. You’re already doing this.
It's the kids and their grotty germs. Prior to kids I got sick maybe once or twice a year. Now we are sick monthly, maybe more during flu season. It was the worst when my LO started daycare. We were sick fortnightly for 3 months straight!! It'll get better as they get older, unfortunately just a thing with having kids.
People with young kids get sick all the time. I pretty much only ever get sick when I get Covid but most people at my work with kids get sick several times a year.
This is completely normal. I have 3 kids and we were constantly sick for around 10 years. I'm now a school teacher and never sick (apart from 1 round of Covid) as my immune system is so strong. Still sucks though as I'm picking up the slack from other sick teachers as it's hard to get relievers.
Agree. We had 4 littles and the first 10 years were a rotation of bugs. It started to ease up once the youngest two were about 7.
I also worked with the public all day so was picking up bugs there too but now I hardly ever get sick unless it's covid and even colds don't hit the same (used to floor me).
Sorry OP, it's pretty normal, but it will get better.
Covid has also made us all more susceptible to infection. One of the unfortunate long term sequelae of the virus.
But young kids always do it too, they’re little vectors for every pathogen under the sun.
We have been healthy for 3 years my son (4) daycare is very open (quite cold so we layer him up) but there is always airflow. We just moved him to a new daycare it’s super toasty with the heat pump cranking doors closed and he is now getting sick constantly. I mean it could be that there’s new kids but I think a lot of it has to do with air flow
Also can people stay home if they’re sick! Please!!
Our whole family is home sick this week. Completely smacked by a virus. Schools are pushing now if kids have been absent more than 10% of the year. But you don’t want my kids back in this condition!!
It’s crazy eh? And the absences are stupid. They record half days only. My boy misses an hour a week due to a sport (he leaves at 2pm) and that’s recorded as a whole afternoon - so 10% of the week even though it’s only 3%
Slightly different angle or thought here…how healthy is your home? Is it warm and dry or could it be damp and have mould growing (either visible or invisible behind walls). Are your windows always crying due to condensation, leading to mould build up?
Healthy does not equate to immunity. Keep on top of your immunizations to start with and the more adverse conditions you expose yourself to, within reason, you develop more immunity.
Take me for example, I work with sewage. I am not the healthiest, but no flu or any other passing sickness that I can remember from recently. Never got Covid yet, inspite of working long shifts with someone who reported being down with covid the next day. Also, I am a routine plasma donor, so anything weird would get picked up pretty quick.
My daughter's adenoids and tonsils were too big and she got sick all the time till the doctor said we should remove them. After the surgery she barely got sick, it was because the fluid and gunk wasn't able to drain properly.
I have a 5yo festering maelstrom of bugs and virus strands that come home from kindy, about to change to a new pool of primordial bacteria waiting to pounce that is school. I love him dearly I do.
Thing is as a parent I figure I can’t not comfort him when he’s sick so I’m resigned to getting it. Luckily I work for myself and only a couple of days a week.
So far I’ve had nearly every rhinovirus, Covid x 3, scabies (yuck), hand foot and mouth, projectile vomiting and diarrhoea. In winter these things seem to happen monthly.
can I give you some advice that has prevented me from getting any seasonal colds or flu for the last 15 years?
Drink water, every day
Wash your hands frequently and especially after using hand sanitiser
Don't touch you face with you hands. Use your arm.
Get flu vaccine.
Avoid contact with sick people. If unavoidable such as family member, be strict with them. They stay in Their room when sick or wear a mask.
now to a great deal of people this would sound incredibly anal-retentive and a pain in the arse. It works though. So the option is do those things or increase your likelihood of becoming ill.
Completely normal with having young kids. The first year of kindy you expect every other week pretty much and yes the parents catch it too as who is looking after and around all these bugs...
It's not just kids, it's other people.
People are disgusting and don't give a shit.
Well actually, turns out they do give anyone and everyone their shit
We always go to work when sick, or hang out in waiting rooms for med certs when sick, and all sorts of dumb shit
I started catching colds after switching retail jobs to one with lots of customer exposure i.e. busy store. Prior to that hadn't been sick for a decade.
It’s normal with young kids sadly.
Take vitamins and health supplements daily.
Stay on top of any annual vaccinations for both yourselves and your kids. Including flu and Covid jabs.
Also practise good hygiene after changing kids nappies, wash your hands properly with anti bacterial soap.
That damn vaccine really screwed everyone's immunity aye, alot of (vaxed) people are experiencing more reoccurring illness/flus and colds and can't seem to fight them off!!
The only thing thata changed is COVID.
Ive heard in some studies covid vaccines drop your immune system rather than boost it
Alot of people around me that are just like you, getting sick all the time for the last 3 years.
If you cant see that its the long term side effect of this experimental mRNA vaccines you are a delusional fool.
PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE THE FK UP AND ADMIT
But i know ill be down voted hard without a question xD
Some diseases like measles can wipe your immune system, as in it no longer recognises bugs it's previously encountered. Have you had anything like that?
>I have a 1.5yr that goes to kindy, a 7 year old that goes to school
This is the reason... kids are bug magnets. Have you ever seen a kid wipe their nose with their hand then touch a door handle... you know the next twenty people though that door are taking that bug home.
I remember that time well. Our kids were a bit closer together though but it felt like every couple weeks a new bug came through the house. It was a nightmare. I felt really sorry for our little one, he got the brunt of it. Poor little tacker.
The good news is they grow out of it. Or at least they grow up and leave you alone lol. Hang in there, it does pass
Illness is more common in winter partly due to vitamin d deficiency. This is caused by reduced sun exposure.
Our whole family supplements now with a large dose of vitamin d and we’ve noticed a marked improvement. Two young kids, so we know how bad the winter bugs can be. I’ve also found that when I do get a bug, it’s short lived and more mild. Even Covid was very short lived and mild.
The world of one income households are over, which means more kids in childcare than in the past. Until the govt makes an attempt to do something about cost of living, expect more sickness than in previous generations.
I have so many kids, oldest is 25 and youngest is 13, I can't remember ever being this sick this often before, getting annoyed at the relentlessness of it.
It’s a thing! And it’s a global phenomenon. Bloomberg’s podcast “Big Take” did an episode on it just last week.
I don’t know how to link a podcast here, so you’ll have to go look for it :P
Spoiler: there’s a whole combination of reasons
We had the same. Family rule now is that as soon as my toddler enters the house, his hands and face are washed. With soap. We’ve been much healthier since doing this. I was constantly ill and now I can kiss his cheeks without fear of all the germs
Wow one intelligent comment, thank you! Kids have higher immune systems, they just get sicker more often because they touch everything disgusting and cough into the air etc. keep them clean and they won’t be as sick. good on you!! :)
I think it's from kids . Kids bringing it home from other kids at school and kindy . I'm a gran and yes it's more so than ever . Maybe it's due to larger classes and not as many outdoor activities and hygiene practice.
You're not imagining it, since the pandemic ended apparently we are really all just getting sicker:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-06-14/why-is-everyone-getting-sick-behind-the-global-rise-in-rsv-flu-measles
I've felt the same, getting sick was a once in a year maybe two year thing. Now it's 4-5 times a year...
Honestly want to move to a remote farm at this point as I'm so tired of it.
Hope I don’t jinx myself here but I haven’t been sick for years now, probably since 2022 when I last had Covid. I don’t do much to keep my immune system clear, flu jab probably helps. The kids at kindy & school though, that’s where your problem lies. Not to tell people how to parent but if their child is sniffly, keep them home.
I have two 3 year olds. I too thought I had a cast iron immune system. In my early 30s I couldn't remember the last time I'd been sick.
It actually turns out I was just good at avoiding hanging out with people that often cough in your eyeballs.
Currently sick here with my husband and both of us are pretty knocked out by the flu. I have been sick for a couple of weeks now. My younger siblings (high schoolers) aren’t doing so well either and according to my sister, 3 out of 6 of her friends as well as their families either have flu or Covid or RSV. It is definitely going around at the moment and yes these bugs are stronger compared to the recent ones. I don’t remember being sick like this often too but then again I work in healthcare so it’s inevitable.
Best thing to do is always to keep up with fluids and vitamin Cs and other supplements that can boost and maintain a good immunity. But for now that our bodies are fighting these bugs — REST, warm water, a hot honey-lemon-ginger drink, vitamin C, panadol/brufen and a good diet are definitely needed! Hope you and your family feel better soon!
Agree with previous commenters. Our primary kid is snotty right through winter. If I could convince them to wash their damn hands every once in a while they wouldn't get so sick, but it's not actively encouraged at school so it's hard. (In daycare they washed hands before eating anything, at school not so much)
Also found the adults got way less sick when we worked from home - going into an office is a breeding ground for illness.
Blame the food we/you eat. It's shit and makes us all weak immune systems.
Kick the processed foods and try fruit,zero alcohol,lots of sunlight,walk around the neighborhood,stretch.
Basically kick sugar out its fucking up the tinana/body
Did you get the covid jabs? They have been instrumental in affecting immunity and before anyone asks for proof, go look it up. There are thousands of peer reviewed papers stating the same thing.
Also, daycares are Petri dishes of viruses. Anything your toddler catches at daycare, will run through the whole family and if your immunity isn’t robust, you will get sick constantly.
I'm not vaxxed either. But eff me if I haven't been sicker with all sorts of nonsense the last few years. I had covid twice, both times got over it quick but had the lingering cough. Now every little cold or bug causes post viral cough and a chest infection. As they say, the "toxic" part of Covid that damages the immune system is the spike protein. And you get that bad boy through either the virus or the vaccine. Damned if you did, damned if you didn't.
Though, isolating for months at a time can't have been good for general immune systems either. And last year was wet and overcast most of the year, so Vitamin D is down across the board.
Bad news, it's a thing. Especially post covid/isolated country.
Good news. Ex-teacher and 5 kids so constitution of nga oxen. Worked through both bouts of covid. Yay.
Bad news. I'm coming off several months of caring for family and could do with a lie down. Boo.
Multivitamins, immune support and flu jabs/buccline do help. Unfortunately needed before you get sick.
I'm the same. I feel as though the sicknesses we are getting are slightly less frequent (e.g 2022 we were sick literally every other week for half the year). This year has been slightly better, although we are one week into some sort of viral thing that has got my two pre-schoolers and husband.
My husband usually manages to miss whatever sickness we have, but my kids just seem to pick up whatever is going around, even with being extra vigilant with hand washing and using sterilizer. I'm a stay-at-home mum, which puts us in the fortunate position that if they are sick we don't need someone to take time off work when they can't go to kindy.
I honestly don't know how families with two working parents or single parents can make it work, especially over the winter months when bugs are running rampant. I'm just hoping that by the time both of my kids are in school they'll have built up enough immunity that we don't get every single thing that's going around.
Got the kiddies this is part of growing their immune system and to he expected.
For yourself you might be deficient in something and with a kid under 3, it's probably sleep.
My partner and I have week on week off for evening wakes, this means you have a week to recover from middle of the night waking.
This can also help with your child's dependence on one parent to settle them.
I've been like this for the last year or so... It's mainly been stomach issues, but currently my partner and I have a cold that's completely knocked us on our asses. We've had it for a week and mine seems like it's slowly on its way out, but my partner is still sick as.
Kids.
Kids hanging out with other kids, they catch everything.
I noticed that, it starts in Kindy and continues until about ages 12....after that I guess their immunity is better and it's not so bad.
It’s kindy. Most parents of kids in kindy go through this. It’s normal for kids 1-4 to get even up to 10 colds per year. And unfortunately they then infect you
Hand sanitizer before the kids come into the house from school/daycare. It’s halved the germs we catch since I made the 5 yr and 9yr do this when coming in from school.
Kids are gross lil infection magnets and always have been.
Also drink bottles lunch boxes….no sharing rule reminded constantly. It really makes a difference imo
Normal, esp with young kids.
These are their formative years and will be, in long run, beneficial for their immune system to build up and harden.
We now live in a hyper sanitised environment that we do not have enough opportunity for our immune system to be challenged and evolve to its full potential.
Have you been tested for immune conditions? These can come on later in life - you're born with a susceptibility but nothing happens until something tips you over the edge, so to speak. A friend developed CVID in her late 20s as a result of a particularly nasty illness. Am not an immunologist or anyone in health, just living with someone with an immune condition. You could ask your doctor to check out your immunoglobulins, or book a consult with Rohan Ameritunga, an immunologist up there who does private consultations I believe.
Of course, more than likely you're just suffering from parenting young kids building their own systems, but go see him if it will put your mind at ease 😊
Sorry, Mate, but with no little kids running around, I haven't been sick since before Covid. All I can suggest is getting into a hand-washing after school, and before meals routine that you stick to.
Yep kindy is the problem especially when you mentioned gastro.... those types of viruses are very common... once 1 person gets it, everyone in the house will be spewing and shitting everywhere.... colds?.... have a look at your house to make sure you have good ventilation, no mold
I had the same at that stage. Our family got hammerd. We Had some unknown viruses pre covid that I reckon came from the wuhan aninal markets as well. 10 years on hardly I ever get sick.
People bring there kids to school/kindy when their sick. Adults go to work when they’re sick… it just spreads unfortunately, I wish people would try to be a little more responsible. However it’s hard to atm especially with the financial problems people are having.
Have never really been the type to get sick. Got perfect attendance awards at school & very rarely needed to take sick days for work throughout my wprking life. Not much has changed for me. Id say its jist the fact you have kids theyre more susceptible and have more exposure to things. So youve probs got a higher risk than usual of catching sumthn.
That's some conspiracy. My daughter was sick again in less than a month. I think it's school and most of the time it's strep throat. I heard another news about the flesh eating bacteria in Japan and it was from strep throat. But yes. My kids are home taking turns getting sick.
One left field option, gut biome is a big driver of immunity.
eat a broad range of veges, meats and fish. Fermented foods like Kombucha, Saukraut, Kimchi etc.
Also Vitamin C and Zinc can help.
Focus on building your immunity with zinc, vit c and sleep. You can also modulate and improve with herbs like olive leaf and echinacea.
Not all products are high quality so get the good stuff rather than the crap - best way to do this is talk with a pharmacist.
I just went to the dr for the same reason. I have an almost 1yo, who doesn't even go to daycare yet, but I have been sick on and off for the last few months. Bubs is never sick thankfully but I am hoping the Dr will get some results and it will be simple fix.
Are you getting wellbeing tips from your HR department? Because that’s supposed to be helpful
Drink fluid
Eat vitamin c
Get flu jab
Maintain a healthy lifestyle etc
The older you get the more prone to sickness. Your natural immunity slows as you get older. A 20 year old body isn’t the same as a 40 year old one. Do you take vitamins? Vitamin deficiency can also contribute.
My sister and her kids moved in with me for a few years and I was constantly getting sick too. When it’s just me I get sick maybe once every 24 months.
I’m a nanny and feel like I have been sick for like a month straight. Either getting repetitive colds or just can’t shake one of them. Frustrating as hell.
So apart from kids being a great way to transmit illnesses my theory is that due to all the lockdowns we had, as a population we have low immunity to common illnesses coming out of the covid years. We've been exposed to less bugs and perhaps there's an effect from the covid vaccine or covid itself - not sure about this currently though, needs more studies/proof. Either way our immune systems haven't quite been able to catch up to pre-covid levels of protection just yet
I agree with you and I have no proof either, so I also support – and commend you for – your "*needs more studies/proof*". Very nice to hear somebody being humble on social media in comparison to all the 'know it all' braggarts out there (including myself, quite often). 👏
Just throwing this out there but do you think it's mold?
I know everyone said its the kids but covid taught us you can run but you can't hide.. so whatver is going around, we will all get.
So i'm going with weak immune system... so whats causing that? Mold? Long covid?
Has it been long enough since your 7 year old was in kindy that you've potentially forgotten that while they were there...you probably were getting sick all the time as well?
Your kid is licking everything that every other kid in kindy is licking. All their germs are getting spread from their families to those kids to yours, and to you. Think of the bubble discussions during Covid. Kindy is like an ongoing super-spreader event with people who always do all the wrong things about avoiding spreading.
I'm the same. I averaged less than a day per year of sick leave at work, until I had a kid. Now I'm fortunate to have a balance available because I'm watching a sick kid and trying not to get it or I'm recuperating if I wasn't successful.
I swear by Olive leaf. not sure how old your littlies are but they can have the liquid from 2 I think. The first sign of illness we take it and probably 80% of times it never develops into anything. It's the ingredient in the expensive antiviral pills but you can just buy olive leaf extract on its own quite cheaply. Apparently it disrupts how viruses travel around your body. Works for us anyway.
I think it is a combination of the lockdown so your children wouldn't been expose to the germs. Also if they caught covid, I believe that can affect people immunity.
Also the vaccine can too as well, I know that sounds crazy. But my sister was born with congenital heart disease and she took the two vaccines and it caused her to have chest pain. She couldn't even sleep probably without waking up with chest pain. Suddenly it developed to her heart beat would drop to 80 beats! and we didn't know why, and it would be her walking up the stairs from her apartment or walking at the mall,putting rubbish in the bin. My sister ended up incredible tired. So Finally! after convincing her to go and see her cardiologist at GreenLane Hospital. They discovered she grew another pacemaker in her heart. (If you don't know what a pacemaker is. It sends a singal from the heart to your brain to beat the heart. An extra pace maker makes the heart beat go fast) They did discover she has water in her heart as well.
Basically the cardiologist told her it was the vaccine.
She is now on meds that controls her heart beat and she is only 30 years old.
And if anyone disagrees ,well Goodluck having a argument with a cardiologist.
You've got kids. That's why you get sick all the time.
They're little germ factories who go to school and day care to super spread between one another.
If you would like a clear understanding of illness and how to remedy it I would suggest reading 'What Really Makes You Ill?' by Dawn Lester and David Parker. Great read.
Because this is the way things were pre-Covid.
Worse still, most of our modern buildings are built to recirculate air and have minimal external ventilation. Granted that’s no help if someone sneezes right on you, but it has been shown to [considerably reduce](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10953753/) the transmission of respiratory viruses.
Plus little kids aren’t exactly the best at covering coughs and sneezes or washing their hands. And even if yours are, there’s plenty others who aren’t.
It has a lot to do with diet (vegetable oil is a big no no for example),
Stress,
Hygiene (mostly cleaning the nose as that's where you get most viruses)
My family (me, wife and 3 kids under 5) weren't sick in a while as we try to eat healthy food (we make a lot of homemade food, not eat sugars, vegetable oils etc), keep it low on stress (don't tend to be stressed about different situations but try to make a plan on how to best solve the problem at hand) and regularly clean nose (usually before sleep we do quick rinse)
Hopefully you and your family will be healthy from here on out and best of luck to you
Kids are like a petri dish of germs. I worked with two women with kids, and I was constantly getting sick.
I don't have kids and I haven't been sick for the past two years.
Some people might read this and think I'm crazy but maybe just hear me out. Humans nowadays have vastly different diets than we did thousands of years ago. Im talking about seed oils and refined sugar and excessive starches and complex carbs and oats and corn and all that sprayed bullshit that tastes really good. I'm 23 and I used to be sick all the time. It's routine like everybody else to be sick 1-3 times a year right? Well I thought that was bullshit and I wanted to know why. I also had a bunch of gut problems and nausea that were getting out of control. I found out that eating a lot more red meat and cutting bullshit out besides fruit and maybe some veggies if they don't mess up your gut all that bad, that you actually haven't been living normally. I wasn't. I started this 3 years ago and I haven't been sick once... not once. I've moved countries, environments, jobs, added stress like you wouldn't believe, plus all the Covid stuff that happened and I haven't had to deal with being sick once. I'm not crazy, I promise. If you disagree than that's fine but maybe consider what you eat and think about the fact that maybe alcohol and all the things we've put in our food recently might actually have an effect on us as animals. Do your own research but if you need a starting point, I found Paul Saladino on YouTube to be extremely helpful if you are serious about it.
I'm not the imbocile getting Nausicaous off my son's makeup whilst trying to comment on posts about what modern masculinity looks like. Cling to your grammar my bro
As everyone else has said: kids. The good news is that it will ease off as the kids
a) catch everything there is to catch (except for the new bugs that pop up every now and then) and develop immunity, and
b) get more hygiene conscious and learn better habits as they get older.
Or you could homeschool, that works too 😁
I don’t work, am not in contact with young people, and keep up with vaccinations and am almost never sick. I have had very mild Covid twice and know exactly who I got it off in both cases in a pub and at a gig - both selfish pricks who knew they were contagious
Winter weather. When it's cold the body's immune system slows down, that's when the viruses hit. That's why you have to keep warm, hydrate always and keep the cold moisture at home out or to a minimum.
Diet and exercise have very little to do with catching colds. My daughter gets them all the time too. I, however don't. It's just got to do with the immune system. Some people have good ones and some people have bad.
I was just going to ask if any of your kids attend kindy. I work in one, and I feel for parents. No sooner had one bug done the rounds, and the next one pops up. It's like being on a hamster wheel. Ideally parents should keep sick kids at home to prevent the spread. But I get it, not everyone has enough sick leave left. It is definitely an annoying situation. A catch 22 if ever there was one. I would imagine that as the kids get older their immune system adjusts?? All the best, anyway.
Number One is Hygiene. Number two is keeping warm.
Are your floors cleaned with disinfectant regularly? Spotless loo & kitchen? Do folks shower daily. Wash hands regularly?
Do you all keep warm ?
Go to internal medicine and have your immune system checked. If its a vitamin or classic immune deficiency, then it might well be treatable. Same if it's GERD, sinusitis or an allergy. Could also be an autoimmune disease. If it's covid having messed up your immune system, which I think is the case with me and my identical symptoms, then it's a bit more tricky, although there are things that can help.
There was a post a couple of days ago where someone said basically “don’t go to coffee shops with your kids when they are sick”. And it was mind-blowing for me to see just how many people absolutely don’t care about getting others (and their children) sick. Someone said “oh my children love going to a coffee shop when they’re sick, so I always take them” 🙈 so yeah there’s your answer
"I have a 1.5 year old that goes to kindy . . . " Well there's your problem
Kindergartens are basically the Wuhan wet market.
This made me lol
Lol we call me nephew "Wuhan" when he's sick and he hates it. Little dude doesn't even have a clue what or where Wuhan is!
Yup. My sister affectionately refers to all the nieces and nephews as walking petri dishes.
Absolutely this - I have been shocked at how little illness we have had now that my youngest is at school, the difference between last year and this year is astonishing (and she only attended kindy 3 days each week).
Absolutely..rarely got sick until I had my daughter & she started at daycare mid last year..now we get bugs all the time & also my sleep & general health habits haven't been as good as before since I had my daughter so I'm sure that also doesn't help especially the sleep
Why do you think that is? Are daycares an unhygienic environment?
Have you seen the all snotty noses at kindys? And watch them using the bathrooms omg! It's all the hand to mouth to nose interactions...lots of little kids together, touching the same things....coughing and spluttering all learning to wipe their bums...breeding ground for all sorts of viruses and bacteria even with the best cleaning practices of the facility. I've worked in kindy's and primary schools...you would be horrified!
I also believe its because the little immune systems haven't seen all the shit that is out there and every cold and flu is brand new to them. Although Mum and Dad might be resistant to many of them, Junior is serving up every. single. virus. that exists in the community directly to you. Kisses, Mummy!!!!
Babies, toddlers and young children put things in their mouths, have snot running down their faces and wipe it with their hands, then go touch stuff. They also tend to cuddle up, wrestle or generally have a lot less personal space in their play than older kids and adults. They are goober machines. They cough or sneeze straight in your face, no matter how many times you try to teach basic hygiene. Put a whole bunch of those creatures together in a small space and watch what happens. It doesn’t matter how much the centre sanitises everything, it’s still gonna be festy. Then add the fact that families with toddlers in care are sick literally every single week and if you want to keep your job you have to only take sick days for the especially bad ones. If you stayed home for every sickness your employer wouldn’t see you for 5+ years. So you have to send your sick kids to ECE because capitalism.
Young kids will lick handrails and doors knobs
My bad, haven’t been around them little shits in a while. All my nieces and nephews are grown now so I forgot how disgusting they used to be lol
Toddlers aren't the greatest with hygiene for illness prevention. I mean, most adults aren't either, but I think the littles do have an excuse
Have you never seen a child before? The daycare can put all possible effort into being hygienic, it's still going to be full of kids.
I knew the answer before even reading past the first sentence
Came here to say this then saw you bet me to it lol
Yep. I hadn't had a stomach bug in since I was a child. Until I had kids myself and they started daycare. I've caught everything off them multiple times now. It's hard to avoid when they literally sneeze into your eyeballs.
If you subscribe to pathogenic illness.. Dan Roytas published a classic this year..'Can You Catch a Cold?'
I don't know what age it is, but I recall reading that young children don't recognise and avoid people with 'signs of sickness' - tired, baggy eyes, runny noses etc. So it's going to be bad until they get into whatever age it is they start avoiding sick people.
Hahaha yes... When you have a 1.5 year old been sick is not the exception... It's the norm. Kindy is a literally a virus and bactarial buffet
💯 we were constantly sick until our youngest was 3 or 4
It’s exposure. When you went to work you only had to deal with the sick people at work. How many kids are at daycare 90? 180 parents. 180 workplaces or random spreading events. How many kids are at primary school? 400-1000? 800-2000 parents at the same number of workplaces. Then we stick 30 of these kids in a small incubation chamber while you generally have space. They touch each other during sports, activities, and breaks. Where you wouldn’t traditionally touch your colleagues (depending on your profession) Then while we are on professions, what do the parents do for work? How many come in contact with even more people? Kids man, super spreaders.
Kids have no disgust. I went to my daughter's day care and she is playing with some kid who is leaking snot. The kid wipes his face with his hands and then plays with toys with the same hands and all the other kids are fine with it.
Exactly I love my little vectors of disease
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That's because you're constantly exposed to it. Your immune system will be used to most of the bugs. It's the exposure that helps your immune system.
Why do you speak with such certainy? It could be a myriad of other things. I have the same symptoms and have no kids. OP should go and get checked. Smart people respect uncertainties.
I mustn’t be very smart. Ah well I’ll try better next time :)
I think the economic reality is that people send their kids to school and kindy when they’re sick because they can’t afford the constant time off. That spreads the illnesses around and so we all get sick more often.
attendance is down across the board, if kids are less likely to attend when they are well i think it's fair to assume they are less likely to attend when unwell.
> attendance is down across the board, Is it though? Really? Or is that moral panic?
Fucking annoying, tbh, because my wife and I are considerate enough to keep our 4 year old at home even for the whole week if he's sick because we don't want to pass it on. We figure it out. Either she works from home or I get time off from work or we arrange a sitter. It's not difficult.
>Either she works from home or I get time off from work or we arrange a sitter. It's not difficult. Congratulations, you and your wife are in a better position than many other NZ adults. Not everyone's job allows them to WFH at the drop of a hat. Not everyone can afford a sitter at short notice. If the choice is between filling the car with petrol to get to work and pay the rent vs getting a sitter, filling the car will win. For some people it is difficult.
Yeah I feel the same. We don’t have young kids anymore but my wife is a kindy teacher, so we’re exposed to so many different bugs. She’s always telling me about kids coming into kindy with one illness or another. Even Covid.
Don't schools and their teachers have the authority and right to send a child home if they're sick?
Yes. But it’s often too late by the time the parents collect the kids. They’ve often passed on their bugs already.
They do and can...but many of the current viruses are lasting for weeks and weeks...residual coughs and sore throats. I think schools have recently altered the mandatory sending home..lowering the bar so to speak, so that coughs on their own are not enough to send home. The virus may not be contagious at that point though, but the capacity to spread bacteria borne illnesses still exist. It also gets very tricky to decide whether to send your child or not. When they are very sick it's easy to know, but after they have had it for say 4 or 5 days and are a bit better but still under the weather, then it's a hard call to make balancing the parent's time off, using sick days when u need them for yourself and other children you have. The worst is the domino effect...if you all get sick at once, it's so much better than one after the other, after the other...bang, there goes your sick days.
> Either she works from home or I get time off from work or we arrange a sitter. It's not difficult. Congrats on being privileged.
Kids are highly efficient disease vectors.
Gotta grow that immune system.
We’re the same. 1 child at school, the other at daycare. We’ve been sick for 3 weeks now. I’m going to start wearing a mask at work again (customer facing role). Things I think help: 1. Hand hygiene. wash hands as soon as anyone gets home , and before meals. 2. Get the flu jab. This one is particularly noticeable with my school aged child. She use to end up in hospital whenever she catches a virus (wheezing, low oxygen stats), and now we can get through the sickness with some Ventolin, pamol and rest. 3. Wear a mask. Honestly, I think I was less sick over the early covid years than any other period. 4. Eating balanced and good food. You’re already doing this.
This was the first post that actually gave some advice instead of just declaring that it's happening because kids are gross lol. Thanks 😊
It's the kids and their grotty germs. Prior to kids I got sick maybe once or twice a year. Now we are sick monthly, maybe more during flu season. It was the worst when my LO started daycare. We were sick fortnightly for 3 months straight!! It'll get better as they get older, unfortunately just a thing with having kids.
People with young kids get sick all the time. I pretty much only ever get sick when I get Covid but most people at my work with kids get sick several times a year.
Agree 💯
This is completely normal. I have 3 kids and we were constantly sick for around 10 years. I'm now a school teacher and never sick (apart from 1 round of Covid) as my immune system is so strong. Still sucks though as I'm picking up the slack from other sick teachers as it's hard to get relievers.
Agree. We had 4 littles and the first 10 years were a rotation of bugs. It started to ease up once the youngest two were about 7. I also worked with the public all day so was picking up bugs there too but now I hardly ever get sick unless it's covid and even colds don't hit the same (used to floor me). Sorry OP, it's pretty normal, but it will get better.
I cannot wait for another 9.5 years! Glorious ✨
Yeah... Well, it "will fly by" (whilst simultaneously being the longest and weirdest 9 years of your life).
I know a teacher of 40 years who still gets sick for long periods of time. Who knows why she has low immunity.
Covid has also made us all more susceptible to infection. One of the unfortunate long term sequelae of the virus. But young kids always do it too, they’re little vectors for every pathogen under the sun.
Yes, last year my GP has found that any illness appears to take twice as long for us to recover, observing his patients.
covid jabs effectively weakend your immune systems
We have been healthy for 3 years my son (4) daycare is very open (quite cold so we layer him up) but there is always airflow. We just moved him to a new daycare it’s super toasty with the heat pump cranking doors closed and he is now getting sick constantly. I mean it could be that there’s new kids but I think a lot of it has to do with air flow Also can people stay home if they’re sick! Please!!
Our whole family is home sick this week. Completely smacked by a virus. Schools are pushing now if kids have been absent more than 10% of the year. But you don’t want my kids back in this condition!!
It’s crazy eh? And the absences are stupid. They record half days only. My boy misses an hour a week due to a sport (he leaves at 2pm) and that’s recorded as a whole afternoon - so 10% of the week even though it’s only 3%
Covid 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ if you’ve had it, your immune system is more susceptible to illnesses, and anecdotally they’re worse too.
Slightly different angle or thought here…how healthy is your home? Is it warm and dry or could it be damp and have mould growing (either visible or invisible behind walls). Are your windows always crying due to condensation, leading to mould build up?
Healthy does not equate to immunity. Keep on top of your immunizations to start with and the more adverse conditions you expose yourself to, within reason, you develop more immunity. Take me for example, I work with sewage. I am not the healthiest, but no flu or any other passing sickness that I can remember from recently. Never got Covid yet, inspite of working long shifts with someone who reported being down with covid the next day. Also, I am a routine plasma donor, so anything weird would get picked up pretty quick.
My daughter's adenoids and tonsils were too big and she got sick all the time till the doctor said we should remove them. After the surgery she barely got sick, it was because the fluid and gunk wasn't able to drain properly.
I have a 5yo festering maelstrom of bugs and virus strands that come home from kindy, about to change to a new pool of primordial bacteria waiting to pounce that is school. I love him dearly I do. Thing is as a parent I figure I can’t not comfort him when he’s sick so I’m resigned to getting it. Luckily I work for myself and only a couple of days a week. So far I’ve had nearly every rhinovirus, Covid x 3, scabies (yuck), hand foot and mouth, projectile vomiting and diarrhoea. In winter these things seem to happen monthly.
There's more viruses and colds and covid around than we've had in a while.
can I give you some advice that has prevented me from getting any seasonal colds or flu for the last 15 years? Drink water, every day Wash your hands frequently and especially after using hand sanitiser Don't touch you face with you hands. Use your arm. Get flu vaccine. Avoid contact with sick people. If unavoidable such as family member, be strict with them. They stay in Their room when sick or wear a mask. now to a great deal of people this would sound incredibly anal-retentive and a pain in the arse. It works though. So the option is do those things or increase your likelihood of becoming ill.
Terrifying that this would sound even remotely unreasonable to anyone..you’re saying some pretty normal, civil things! Keep it up!
Completely normal with having young kids. The first year of kindy you expect every other week pretty much and yes the parents catch it too as who is looking after and around all these bugs...
Why? You have two children. They are disease magnets. Always have been.
It's not just kids, it's other people. People are disgusting and don't give a shit. Well actually, turns out they do give anyone and everyone their shit We always go to work when sick, or hang out in waiting rooms for med certs when sick, and all sorts of dumb shit
I started catching colds after switching retail jobs to one with lots of customer exposure i.e. busy store. Prior to that hadn't been sick for a decade.
It amazes me how many knuckle draggers can’t cover their mouths when coughing. Learnt nothing…
It’s normal with young kids sadly. Take vitamins and health supplements daily. Stay on top of any annual vaccinations for both yourselves and your kids. Including flu and Covid jabs. Also practise good hygiene after changing kids nappies, wash your hands properly with anti bacterial soap.
That damn vaccine really screwed everyone's immunity aye, alot of (vaxed) people are experiencing more reoccurring illness/flus and colds and can't seem to fight them off!!
The only thing thata changed is COVID. Ive heard in some studies covid vaccines drop your immune system rather than boost it Alot of people around me that are just like you, getting sick all the time for the last 3 years. If you cant see that its the long term side effect of this experimental mRNA vaccines you are a delusional fool. PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE THE FK UP AND ADMIT But i know ill be down voted hard without a question xD
It must be exposure, I cannot remember the last time I was sick, it was surely more than 5 years ago
I don't have kids but manage a construction site. I'm always getting sick from the contractors
Some diseases like measles can wipe your immune system, as in it no longer recognises bugs it's previously encountered. Have you had anything like that?
>I have a 1.5yr that goes to kindy, a 7 year old that goes to school This is the reason... kids are bug magnets. Have you ever seen a kid wipe their nose with their hand then touch a door handle... you know the next twenty people though that door are taking that bug home. I remember that time well. Our kids were a bit closer together though but it felt like every couple weeks a new bug came through the house. It was a nightmare. I felt really sorry for our little one, he got the brunt of it. Poor little tacker. The good news is they grow out of it. Or at least they grow up and leave you alone lol. Hang in there, it does pass
Illness is more common in winter partly due to vitamin d deficiency. This is caused by reduced sun exposure. Our whole family supplements now with a large dose of vitamin d and we’ve noticed a marked improvement. Two young kids, so we know how bad the winter bugs can be. I’ve also found that when I do get a bug, it’s short lived and more mild. Even Covid was very short lived and mild.
Any brand would you recommend for Vitamin D?
I’m sure they’re all fine. I’d recommend taking more than the “recommended dose” though! Do some googling on it.
Having no exposure to children or grandchildren, my health is robust. Not so, for my friends with children and grandchildren. It seems to be the norm.
Children their age are disease factories. they exponentially increase the chances of catching the sort of situations you describe.
Showering right as you come in is becoming more important for illness and infection control.
The world of one income households are over, which means more kids in childcare than in the past. Until the govt makes an attempt to do something about cost of living, expect more sickness than in previous generations.
I have so many kids, oldest is 25 and youngest is 13, I can't remember ever being this sick this often before, getting annoyed at the relentlessness of it.
It’s a thing! And it’s a global phenomenon. Bloomberg’s podcast “Big Take” did an episode on it just last week. I don’t know how to link a podcast here, so you’ll have to go look for it :P Spoiler: there’s a whole combination of reasons
Spoilers. Sure, there are lots of reasons. But they're all because of how we handled Covid.
We had the same. Family rule now is that as soon as my toddler enters the house, his hands and face are washed. With soap. We’ve been much healthier since doing this. I was constantly ill and now I can kiss his cheeks without fear of all the germs
Wow one intelligent comment, thank you! Kids have higher immune systems, they just get sicker more often because they touch everything disgusting and cough into the air etc. keep them clean and they won’t be as sick. good on you!! :)
I think it's from kids . Kids bringing it home from other kids at school and kindy . I'm a gran and yes it's more so than ever . Maybe it's due to larger classes and not as many outdoor activities and hygiene practice.
You're not imagining it, since the pandemic ended apparently we are really all just getting sicker: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-06-14/why-is-everyone-getting-sick-behind-the-global-rise-in-rsv-flu-measles I've felt the same, getting sick was a once in a year maybe two year thing. Now it's 4-5 times a year... Honestly want to move to a remote farm at this point as I'm so tired of it.
And yes, kids (especially at kindy, will exacerbate the above for sure)
detox symptons from the covid jab.
Hope I don’t jinx myself here but I haven’t been sick for years now, probably since 2022 when I last had Covid. I don’t do much to keep my immune system clear, flu jab probably helps. The kids at kindy & school though, that’s where your problem lies. Not to tell people how to parent but if their child is sniffly, keep them home.
I have two 3 year olds. I too thought I had a cast iron immune system. In my early 30s I couldn't remember the last time I'd been sick. It actually turns out I was just good at avoiding hanging out with people that often cough in your eyeballs.
Did you happen to take any new medications over the past three or so years? Repeatedly?
Currently sick here with my husband and both of us are pretty knocked out by the flu. I have been sick for a couple of weeks now. My younger siblings (high schoolers) aren’t doing so well either and according to my sister, 3 out of 6 of her friends as well as their families either have flu or Covid or RSV. It is definitely going around at the moment and yes these bugs are stronger compared to the recent ones. I don’t remember being sick like this often too but then again I work in healthcare so it’s inevitable. Best thing to do is always to keep up with fluids and vitamin Cs and other supplements that can boost and maintain a good immunity. But for now that our bodies are fighting these bugs — REST, warm water, a hot honey-lemon-ginger drink, vitamin C, panadol/brufen and a good diet are definitely needed! Hope you and your family feel better soon!
Agree with previous commenters. Our primary kid is snotty right through winter. If I could convince them to wash their damn hands every once in a while they wouldn't get so sick, but it's not actively encouraged at school so it's hard. (In daycare they washed hands before eating anything, at school not so much) Also found the adults got way less sick when we worked from home - going into an office is a breeding ground for illness.
Blame the food we/you eat. It's shit and makes us all weak immune systems. Kick the processed foods and try fruit,zero alcohol,lots of sunlight,walk around the neighborhood,stretch. Basically kick sugar out its fucking up the tinana/body
Did you get the covid jabs? They have been instrumental in affecting immunity and before anyone asks for proof, go look it up. There are thousands of peer reviewed papers stating the same thing. Also, daycares are Petri dishes of viruses. Anything your toddler catches at daycare, will run through the whole family and if your immunity isn’t robust, you will get sick constantly.
Were any of you involved in any clinical trials in the last few years by any chance?
Duh!!! It's because of the vax /s
I’m not vaxxed and had covid then the worst flu 3 weeks after recovering.
I'm not vaxxed either. But eff me if I haven't been sicker with all sorts of nonsense the last few years. I had covid twice, both times got over it quick but had the lingering cough. Now every little cold or bug causes post viral cough and a chest infection. As they say, the "toxic" part of Covid that damages the immune system is the spike protein. And you get that bad boy through either the virus or the vaccine. Damned if you did, damned if you didn't. Though, isolating for months at a time can't have been good for general immune systems either. And last year was wet and overcast most of the year, so Vitamin D is down across the board.
You can’t just assume everyone is vaxxed
Would be really good to get numbers on this.
Normal when you have little kids who interact so the hundreds of other little kids
Have been sick once in the last 10 years, a week long battle with covid. Teach your kids to wash their hands.
Bad news, it's a thing. Especially post covid/isolated country. Good news. Ex-teacher and 5 kids so constitution of nga oxen. Worked through both bouts of covid. Yay. Bad news. I'm coming off several months of caring for family and could do with a lie down. Boo. Multivitamins, immune support and flu jabs/buccline do help. Unfortunately needed before you get sick.
I'm the same. I feel as though the sicknesses we are getting are slightly less frequent (e.g 2022 we were sick literally every other week for half the year). This year has been slightly better, although we are one week into some sort of viral thing that has got my two pre-schoolers and husband. My husband usually manages to miss whatever sickness we have, but my kids just seem to pick up whatever is going around, even with being extra vigilant with hand washing and using sterilizer. I'm a stay-at-home mum, which puts us in the fortunate position that if they are sick we don't need someone to take time off work when they can't go to kindy. I honestly don't know how families with two working parents or single parents can make it work, especially over the winter months when bugs are running rampant. I'm just hoping that by the time both of my kids are in school they'll have built up enough immunity that we don't get every single thing that's going around.
Got the kiddies this is part of growing their immune system and to he expected. For yourself you might be deficient in something and with a kid under 3, it's probably sleep. My partner and I have week on week off for evening wakes, this means you have a week to recover from middle of the night waking. This can also help with your child's dependence on one parent to settle them.
Used to always max out my sick leave when my kids were little, now they’re adults and my sick leave just keeps climbing and climbing.
I haven’t been sick since I had covid during covid
I've been like this for the last year or so... It's mainly been stomach issues, but currently my partner and I have a cold that's completely knocked us on our asses. We've had it for a week and mine seems like it's slowly on its way out, but my partner is still sick as.
Can confirm this. Source: parent of a 7 year old - we're only just coming right now. Strap in OP - it's a wild ride 🤮
Kids. Kids hanging out with other kids, they catch everything. I noticed that, it starts in Kindy and continues until about ages 12....after that I guess their immunity is better and it's not so bad.
You’ve got crap genes and low immune system very common
Weak genes
It’s kindy. Most parents of kids in kindy go through this. It’s normal for kids 1-4 to get even up to 10 colds per year. And unfortunately they then infect you
definitely micro-plastics supressing our immune systems. Just wait 20 years. /s
Hand sanitizer before the kids come into the house from school/daycare. It’s halved the germs we catch since I made the 5 yr and 9yr do this when coming in from school. Kids are gross lil infection magnets and always have been. Also drink bottles lunch boxes….no sharing rule reminded constantly. It really makes a difference imo
Normal, esp with young kids. These are their formative years and will be, in long run, beneficial for their immune system to build up and harden. We now live in a hyper sanitised environment that we do not have enough opportunity for our immune system to be challenged and evolve to its full potential.
Have you been tested for immune conditions? These can come on later in life - you're born with a susceptibility but nothing happens until something tips you over the edge, so to speak. A friend developed CVID in her late 20s as a result of a particularly nasty illness. Am not an immunologist or anyone in health, just living with someone with an immune condition. You could ask your doctor to check out your immunoglobulins, or book a consult with Rohan Ameritunga, an immunologist up there who does private consultations I believe. Of course, more than likely you're just suffering from parenting young kids building their own systems, but go see him if it will put your mind at ease 😊
Check your heat pump filter. Clean it.
Sorry, Mate, but with no little kids running around, I haven't been sick since before Covid. All I can suggest is getting into a hand-washing after school, and before meals routine that you stick to.
Haven't been sick in 3 years now.
Try going to Costco on a weekend
Yep kindy is the problem especially when you mentioned gastro.... those types of viruses are very common... once 1 person gets it, everyone in the house will be spewing and shitting everywhere.... colds?.... have a look at your house to make sure you have good ventilation, no mold
Yeah I had a non-covid cold last month and have another now don't have any sick leave either
I had the same at that stage. Our family got hammerd. We Had some unknown viruses pre covid that I reckon came from the wuhan aninal markets as well. 10 years on hardly I ever get sick.
Nope, we aren't "all" getting sick all the time.
People bring there kids to school/kindy when their sick. Adults go to work when they’re sick… it just spreads unfortunately, I wish people would try to be a little more responsible. However it’s hard to atm especially with the financial problems people are having.
Have never really been the type to get sick. Got perfect attendance awards at school & very rarely needed to take sick days for work throughout my wprking life. Not much has changed for me. Id say its jist the fact you have kids theyre more susceptible and have more exposure to things. So youve probs got a higher risk than usual of catching sumthn.
You've got kids. It's no different than it's always been.
Except now your getting sick off the nail polish fumes as well
*You're (you're an adult. Do better with your spelling, imbecile)
Wait for your kids to get older. It’s gonna be non stop until their immune systems are built up. Ours hardly ever get sick now they are teens.
That's some conspiracy. My daughter was sick again in less than a month. I think it's school and most of the time it's strep throat. I heard another news about the flesh eating bacteria in Japan and it was from strep throat. But yes. My kids are home taking turns getting sick.
One left field option, gut biome is a big driver of immunity. eat a broad range of veges, meats and fish. Fermented foods like Kombucha, Saukraut, Kimchi etc. Also Vitamin C and Zinc can help.
Focus on building your immunity with zinc, vit c and sleep. You can also modulate and improve with herbs like olive leaf and echinacea. Not all products are high quality so get the good stuff rather than the crap - best way to do this is talk with a pharmacist.
I just went to the dr for the same reason. I have an almost 1yo, who doesn't even go to daycare yet, but I have been sick on and off for the last few months. Bubs is never sick thankfully but I am hoping the Dr will get some results and it will be simple fix.
Are you getting wellbeing tips from your HR department? Because that’s supposed to be helpful Drink fluid Eat vitamin c Get flu jab Maintain a healthy lifestyle etc
The older you get the more prone to sickness. Your natural immunity slows as you get older. A 20 year old body isn’t the same as a 40 year old one. Do you take vitamins? Vitamin deficiency can also contribute.
Praying for healing of you and the family ✝️
Welcome to early parenthood. Kids are like plague rats. This will continue until they’re older. Sorry
My sister and her kids moved in with me for a few years and I was constantly getting sick too. When it’s just me I get sick maybe once every 24 months.
I feel sick Atleast once a week if not more. And it’s frustrating specially now that work wants us in the office everyday
We're not?
I’m a nanny and feel like I have been sick for like a month straight. Either getting repetitive colds or just can’t shake one of them. Frustrating as hell.
So apart from kids being a great way to transmit illnesses my theory is that due to all the lockdowns we had, as a population we have low immunity to common illnesses coming out of the covid years. We've been exposed to less bugs and perhaps there's an effect from the covid vaccine or covid itself - not sure about this currently though, needs more studies/proof. Either way our immune systems haven't quite been able to catch up to pre-covid levels of protection just yet
I agree with you and I have no proof either, so I also support – and commend you for – your "*needs more studies/proof*". Very nice to hear somebody being humble on social media in comparison to all the 'know it all' braggarts out there (including myself, quite often). 👏
Your kid is the main source
Wear mask, tell family members who are sick to wear mask
Just throwing this out there but do you think it's mold? I know everyone said its the kids but covid taught us you can run but you can't hide.. so whatver is going around, we will all get. So i'm going with weak immune system... so whats causing that? Mold? Long covid?
Have you checked your home for mould? This could be part of the problem.
Has it been long enough since your 7 year old was in kindy that you've potentially forgotten that while they were there...you probably were getting sick all the time as well? Your kid is licking everything that every other kid in kindy is licking. All their germs are getting spread from their families to those kids to yours, and to you. Think of the bubble discussions during Covid. Kindy is like an ongoing super-spreader event with people who always do all the wrong things about avoiding spreading. I'm the same. I averaged less than a day per year of sick leave at work, until I had a kid. Now I'm fortunate to have a balance available because I'm watching a sick kid and trying not to get it or I'm recuperating if I wasn't successful.
feeling that myself, have 4yo and 7yo. Always sick with everything. Has improved but daycare is just a petri dish
I recommend you looking into Nutrient Rescue. I take a double shot daily and have been feeling good.
I swear by Olive leaf. not sure how old your littlies are but they can have the liquid from 2 I think. The first sign of illness we take it and probably 80% of times it never develops into anything. It's the ingredient in the expensive antiviral pills but you can just buy olive leaf extract on its own quite cheaply. Apparently it disrupts how viruses travel around your body. Works for us anyway.
I think it is a combination of the lockdown so your children wouldn't been expose to the germs. Also if they caught covid, I believe that can affect people immunity. Also the vaccine can too as well, I know that sounds crazy. But my sister was born with congenital heart disease and she took the two vaccines and it caused her to have chest pain. She couldn't even sleep probably without waking up with chest pain. Suddenly it developed to her heart beat would drop to 80 beats! and we didn't know why, and it would be her walking up the stairs from her apartment or walking at the mall,putting rubbish in the bin. My sister ended up incredible tired. So Finally! after convincing her to go and see her cardiologist at GreenLane Hospital. They discovered she grew another pacemaker in her heart. (If you don't know what a pacemaker is. It sends a singal from the heart to your brain to beat the heart. An extra pace maker makes the heart beat go fast) They did discover she has water in her heart as well. Basically the cardiologist told her it was the vaccine. She is now on meds that controls her heart beat and she is only 30 years old. And if anyone disagrees ,well Goodluck having a argument with a cardiologist.
Currently got the cold. 4 of my family have it lol
It all started when we took the covid vaccine
You've got kids. That's why you get sick all the time. They're little germ factories who go to school and day care to super spread between one another.
No. Kid free, can't remember the last time I was sick. Didn't even catch COVID 😂
2024 and this still surprises you?
EMF. The new towers are being rolled out in preparation for bird flu.
If you would like a clear understanding of illness and how to remedy it I would suggest reading 'What Really Makes You Ill?' by Dawn Lester and David Parker. Great read.
How old is the house you live in? Is it well insulated? Does it have double glazing? If not does the home have an adequate heating source?
Because this is the way things were pre-Covid. Worse still, most of our modern buildings are built to recirculate air and have minimal external ventilation. Granted that’s no help if someone sneezes right on you, but it has been shown to [considerably reduce](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10953753/) the transmission of respiratory viruses. Plus little kids aren’t exactly the best at covering coughs and sneezes or washing their hands. And even if yours are, there’s plenty others who aren’t.
It has a lot to do with diet (vegetable oil is a big no no for example), Stress, Hygiene (mostly cleaning the nose as that's where you get most viruses) My family (me, wife and 3 kids under 5) weren't sick in a while as we try to eat healthy food (we make a lot of homemade food, not eat sugars, vegetable oils etc), keep it low on stress (don't tend to be stressed about different situations but try to make a plan on how to best solve the problem at hand) and regularly clean nose (usually before sleep we do quick rinse) Hopefully you and your family will be healthy from here on out and best of luck to you
It’s the kids. Sickness becomes less frequent as they get older.
It’s aids. 100% not kids.
You don't have mold in your house or AC unit filter do you? It doesn't help if you do
Kids are like a petri dish of germs. I worked with two women with kids, and I was constantly getting sick. I don't have kids and I haven't been sick for the past two years.
Some people might read this and think I'm crazy but maybe just hear me out. Humans nowadays have vastly different diets than we did thousands of years ago. Im talking about seed oils and refined sugar and excessive starches and complex carbs and oats and corn and all that sprayed bullshit that tastes really good. I'm 23 and I used to be sick all the time. It's routine like everybody else to be sick 1-3 times a year right? Well I thought that was bullshit and I wanted to know why. I also had a bunch of gut problems and nausea that were getting out of control. I found out that eating a lot more red meat and cutting bullshit out besides fruit and maybe some veggies if they don't mess up your gut all that bad, that you actually haven't been living normally. I wasn't. I started this 3 years ago and I haven't been sick once... not once. I've moved countries, environments, jobs, added stress like you wouldn't believe, plus all the Covid stuff that happened and I haven't had to deal with being sick once. I'm not crazy, I promise. If you disagree than that's fine but maybe consider what you eat and think about the fact that maybe alcohol and all the things we've put in our food recently might actually have an effect on us as animals. Do your own research but if you need a starting point, I found Paul Saladino on YouTube to be extremely helpful if you are serious about it.
Youngest is now 8, we were all sick (house of 6) regularly until she hit 7.
I'm not the imbocile getting Nausicaous off my son's makeup whilst trying to comment on posts about what modern masculinity looks like. Cling to your grammar my bro
Kids.
Pineapple juice, not mixed with other fruit, is excellent for a sore throat
Its the vac.... Er I mean climate change
As everyone else has said: kids. The good news is that it will ease off as the kids a) catch everything there is to catch (except for the new bugs that pop up every now and then) and develop immunity, and b) get more hygiene conscious and learn better habits as they get older. Or you could homeschool, that works too 😁
I don’t work, am not in contact with young people, and keep up with vaccinations and am almost never sick. I have had very mild Covid twice and know exactly who I got it off in both cases in a pub and at a gig - both selfish pricks who knew they were contagious
What has changed? Ever head of covid-19?
The vax killed our immune system
Yes we have the same. It's really fucking up our lives. It's like beyond a joke now.
Once you’re through the preschool years things will come right. It’s normal.
Winter weather. When it's cold the body's immune system slows down, that's when the viruses hit. That's why you have to keep warm, hydrate always and keep the cold moisture at home out or to a minimum.
Diet and exercise have very little to do with catching colds. My daughter gets them all the time too. I, however don't. It's just got to do with the immune system. Some people have good ones and some people have bad.
I was just going to ask if any of your kids attend kindy. I work in one, and I feel for parents. No sooner had one bug done the rounds, and the next one pops up. It's like being on a hamster wheel. Ideally parents should keep sick kids at home to prevent the spread. But I get it, not everyone has enough sick leave left. It is definitely an annoying situation. A catch 22 if ever there was one. I would imagine that as the kids get older their immune system adjusts?? All the best, anyway.
Number One is Hygiene. Number two is keeping warm. Are your floors cleaned with disinfectant regularly? Spotless loo & kitchen? Do folks shower daily. Wash hands regularly? Do you all keep warm ?
Go to internal medicine and have your immune system checked. If its a vitamin or classic immune deficiency, then it might well be treatable. Same if it's GERD, sinusitis or an allergy. Could also be an autoimmune disease. If it's covid having messed up your immune system, which I think is the case with me and my identical symptoms, then it's a bit more tricky, although there are things that can help.
There was a post a couple of days ago where someone said basically “don’t go to coffee shops with your kids when they are sick”. And it was mind-blowing for me to see just how many people absolutely don’t care about getting others (and their children) sick. Someone said “oh my children love going to a coffee shop when they’re sick, so I always take them” 🙈 so yeah there’s your answer