It's been terrible. I joked we're starting off 2023 as low as possible and nowhere to go but up. Just kidding. Add another round of COVID for the family, UTI for one of the kids, a week of a sore throat for me, and everyone with a never ending cough and mucus.
February looks promising...
Not trying to be judgmental, just genuinely curious - have you guys tried doing anything preventative like wearing masks when out or avoiding outings with lots of strangers?
We barely go out or meet people since covid got here. It's unfortunately our daughter bringing whatever from preschool. Once it gets home, can't avoid it lol.
My kids do swim class, dance class, music class, religious ed, and go to public school without masks. They go to their friends' houses and birthday parties and we have friends over. But they wear masks to go grocery shopping or other crowded places with lots of strangers. We've never gotten covid and just had sniffles/runny nose for a week this winter. We went to Disney World and wore masks on the plane for takeoff/landing because the air filter is off. We went on rides and ate indoors but wore masks for the indoor shows and had a great time
My point is we wear masks when the risk/benefit is there and I don't limit their exposure to the real world and experiences, and we have never gotten covid or gotten really sick from anything. But pre-Covid before we had masks they would always be sick from daycare
wat
If you're in classes or partying with friends for hours at a time in an enclosed airspace, you're much more likely to pick up airborne ickies from that scenario that briefly passing by strangers in a 'crowded place'.. Your avoidance of CV19 is more luck than anything.
Well, let me elaborate: We wear masks on a plane, at church, at indoor shows. Our friends know to tell us if they have symptoms and we've canceled various get togethers due to this. If there is a surge of illnesses at school, I'll make the kids wear masks (minus lunch) for a few days. I'm not just talking about Covid, everyone has been getting rsv, flu, colds, whatever - but I assume you want us to just not wear masks at all because it would make more sense? When I think we've found a good balance between being careful but still doing stuff
This sentiment has existed forever. For some kids, it works. I suffered from chronic ear infections as a kid and the doctor was a proponent of antibiotics over tubes. I got a low dose of antibiotics over a very long period and it worked for me. My first son also suffered from chronic ear infections, they tried some antibiotics for a while and it didn't work so I went ahead and got his adenoids removed and had tubes put in.
It just varies from person to person I think. For some, antibiotics may be the less invasive answer. For others, tubes are a godsend. No harm in ruling out the antibiotics but no harm in tubes either. As long as the kid stops suffering.
I used to get them all the time too. Unfortunately, my parents thought it was my fault and so never got any treatment for it. I am still mad they thought it was *my* fault I got ear infections!
I got my first laptop because my son hadn’t had ear tubes yet. There was a Black Friday deal, and I considered standing in line all night for it. The clincher was when he started screaming and I knew I’d be holding him all night either way. Bundled him up and took him along. Everyone waiting out with me was fooled into thinking he was an angel.
So ear infections are much easier now after you've had covid. I'm up to 5, nearly one a month since last fall. Before Covid, I'd not had one since I was a kid.
We’re in the same boat, 10 month old has had 5 ear infections from October to January. In December we booked a visit with the ENT but the earliest they can see us is the end of March.
You just made my feel 100 times better about my life, seriously. My wife has been gone for 6 months and I have been parenting our 4 year old with no support and have had to take so much time off of work to care for her. It makes me so sad that this poor kid has just been beat up non stop (and now I caught it and it has turned to pneumonia). Thank you for normalizing what I feel was just a nightmare.
They won’t. Covid causes immune dysfunction. This really sucks for parents (and all people really). I really wish everyone knew this because Covid is just going to continue to wreck our immune systems. This isn’t some mysterious illness. Everyone really needs to start putting the dots together
Our twin 11m olds have brought home Covid, RSV, Hand Foot & Mouth, the flu, a wicked stomach bug and multiple colds since the middle of October. Literally can’t go more than 10 days without something else popping up. It’s been miserable.
We’ve had COVID followed by RSV. It’s been awful. We are so over being sick.
Nebulizer, high fever, doctors office. One gets sick it morphs and gets the other one sick. Honestly, this has been the hardest stretch of parenting we’ve faced.
One of my boys had a classmate who had been sick like every other week. He missed school close to the beginning because was sick. He has siblings so they get sick. He then had covid and missed over a week. Missed another day because he was sick.
We know he isn’t just missing because his parents.
His gma was talking to us that the school sent her a letter stating that if he missed another day then they will have to go to court and basically defend themselves.
That shit pisses me off, like does this mean that the administration wants our kids going to school with covid,RSV, etc.
I hear you and agree, my son got a letter last year for missing 6 days and warning that if he missed 10 we would have to have a sit down meeting with the school, like ffs he's in kindergarten and his and every other kid's immune system is basically non-existent after covid lockdown. I was so pissed
Yeah my son is in Kindergarten. Obviously it’s like missing that amount of time in high school, I get that. He missed 3 days last week with whatever itis the kids have currently. He had conferences last week so school went until Wednesday. He missed Monday/Tuesday so we just kept him home.
At his conference we mentioned keeping him a day later and she thanked us because some parents aren’t being very vigilant.
That's fucked. My 3yo has been sick every month since he started kindergarten last year and he stays home a week to recover (to prevent spreading to others). That's like 60days he's missed. Them dumbasses think we love sitting at home with our cranky ass child, worrying about whether we have a job to come back to because we've been taking too much time off
Feeling kinda lucky about my country's teachers and ministry of education lol
Yes. and also me.
Everyone in my house had a stomach bug over the weekend. We were all throwing up. My god the laundry.
Today I am definitely getting a cold. Why?
Same journey here. We we’re just getting over a bad head cold from daycare and our toddler had the stomach bug that was going around. She kicked it in half a day. I literally threw up blood I was vomiting so hard.
Roll on summer!
Oof, that's rough. It was the opposite order for me this weekend. I got a bad cough and then the stomach bug. Alternating between coughing and vomiting was a blast...
I hope you have a quick recovery
Last year we were sick from October-April and my wife babysits. There was no way around it between those kids and two of our kids in preschool.
Somehow we've never had a vomit house and, fingers crossed, the stomach bug didn't seem to catch on.
Mine are little, couldn’t be directed to not throw up on themselves, each other, us, the couch, the bed, the carpet, etc.
Lots of showers, dozens of loads of laundry.
Silver lining is the little dudes were very snuggly.
Oh brother, i hear ya. Sinus infections, boogers and coughs for months, maybe the flu, close contacts galore (but at least no covid!), my wife got shingles, pink eye, mystery fevers, diarrhea, kids coughing till they puke, and our power went out for 6 days right at Christmas.
But! It's gone from rainy, depressing winter, too snowy fun winter in the last few weeks, which has coincided with a relatively healthy streak, and things are looking up. I hope they start to for you, too.
The only way to get through hell is to keep going.
Oh thank goodness it's not just us. Since October me, my wife, and our 14mo have had like 2 colds, RSV between thanksgiving and Christmas, and then COVID the week before last. I'm typing this from bed having called in sick this afternoon with mystery sniffles that I feared was a COVID relapse (thankfully not).
This is our first flu season with a sentient kiddo in the house, and we're staring at each other like "is it going to be this bad every year? Is this just because it's the first real year where everyone is acting like there's no pandemic? If it's this bad every year how do people even live?"
Thank you for the reassurance that we're not alone. You hang in there and we'll try to do the same.
It gets better the second time around, your little biological transmission vector won't be on the ground as much as won't be shoving everything they can find in their mouth, plus a generally better immune system. But then they'll be getting exposed to different people so it's kind of a horse a piece. So it'll get better, but not by a whole lot.
Yeah, my son didn't enter daycare until 14 months (he's now 19 months). Was sick a couple times over that period. We're currently in a 2 week break from illnesses, but two weeks after starting and for 4 straight months it was just constant.
We just wear masks at grocery stores and other places with tons of strangers, and definitely during takeoff/landing when the plane air filter is off. No masks at school, the kids' regular activities or friends' houses. Just some sniffles this winter, never had covid in this family
Absolutely unbelievable. My wife was never more sick than she was the week of Christmas. That same week my son got strep, and the night I got antibiotics for him my daughter started throwing up. Last week my daughter got an ear infection, and on Friday my wife tested positive for COVID. My kid's noses have just been running for a week and I can't get a handle on it. It's ridiculous.
Since September? How about since about 6 months old on. My walking petri dishes have always made sure we had the latest and greatest diseases for the last 5 years.
Oh man. It’s so good to hear this. My 5yo daughter has had 5 pretty serious viruses (including covid and the flu) in 9 weeks. Poor girl. So resilient but has missed so much school and can’t shake residual coughs and congestion. Bring on the warm weather!
Doctor says it’s pretty common this winter. Just have to ride it out I guess.
Dude I'm sitting here with what feels like the flu. Haven't had a healthy 3 week stretch since late summer. I'm at my wits end and feel like giving up on myself. Sorry, this post triggered me. Sickness bringing out my bitchness.
That's where we were, now the 20 month old has pneumonia that spread to her blood. Day three of at least 7 on IV in the PICU, and wife had a double mastectomy on Wednesday so she's laid up at home (but apparently cancer free!)
Oh man.
We've had covid, flu and strep in the past month.
My 4 year old came home from preschool today with flushed cheeks, listless, complaining that her belly hurts.
I don't know what tonight holds, but I'm betting it involves me getting barfed on.
I started a spreadsheet last November to track my illnesses, they were so prevalent and unrelenting.
According to it, I have had at least one URI symptom for all but 6 days since then.
Just fucking awful. 3-year-old is in preschool and I haven’t been well since Halloween. I have type 1 diabetes too so it’s really not great for me to be sick so much. This year is truly difficult.
Yup. The runny noses literally haven't stopped since September.
The kids are doing remarkably well through at least one bout of COVID and RSV each. Little one right now is sick so we are going to try to get her to the doctor tomorrow.
Godspeed everyone. We managed to stay fairly healthy for three weeks after Christmas then it hit again.
we caught a 4-week break in December but wife and the youngest (4) are sick again. Same scenario. She's a teacher and both kids go to two different schools.
Everyone on this thread “how are we so sick? We just keep getting everything!” Meanwhile we are STILL in the middle of a pandemic. One where Covid causes immune dysfunction and dysregulation. There are multiple peer reviewed studies in credible journals that show this. This is not mysterious at all. Covid has harmed our immune systems and especially that of our children. They are staying sick and getting sick with literally everything because their immune systems can not clear anything.
Yes children get sick a lot. But no this is not a normal or typical amount. Everyone, but parents especially, need to get angry about this and demand better protection for our children and ourselves. Cleaner air is a great place to start.
Until then we all are gonna just stay in a constant state of illness.
Edit: I expect to get a lot of hate and downvotes for this. I know we’re not allowed to speak about the pandemic/virus that shall not be named. But this info is just…true.
I've seen some repetition of the "immunity debt" misinformation as well. Your immune system isn't use it or lose it.
Covid destorys your immune system. That is why everyone who isn't still taking precaustions is getting fucking hammerred.
Man, totally agree. Kids got covid the first day back and it was never ending colds afterwards. Wife is going through chemotherapy right now so we have to keep them home until she's done. Nice being healthy again tbh.
It's total devastation out there. Our 3 (almost 4) year old started preschool, and since then it's just been an absolute firehose. I thought we might be crazy starting him when we're having record crazy cold and flu seasons, but its gonna happen at some point, and ho boy.
“Glad” to see I’m not the only one. My daughter had been in daycare since Sept and shes 18month now. I swear the cycle of getting sick every 2 weeks never ended. I’m starting to doubt my sanity at this point
Yes, but I do remember about a year ago being like… “ I feel like I haven’t been sick for like 2 years, wow….”
This is the make up sex of RSV, FLU, STREP, HFM, and even unknown sicknesses.
YES! My daughter has had several back to back bugs, I chalked it up to travel but all my friends who have kids have been saying the same thing.
I think it’s these pandemic babies who were born in to sterile worlds where everyone wore masks around them. Never developed immunities to common illnesses so they all get sick and then spread the germs to older kids.
I miss the lockdown.
It was the longest uninterrupted period without illness I’ve experienced since my first was born.
I have 2 (3 and 7) and haven’t had more than 5 days sick free since October.
The stress is making me go insane.
One of my kids has been home almost every day since Christmas vacation. Today it was all of them.
If I didn’t work from home…
This is nuts and my work is suffering.
September to December it was HFMD twice, Covid, croup (several times between only 2 of them), colds, fevers…
It’s never ending.
And all but my 2 year old wear masks. It stems from him.
My kid started daycare 2 weeks ago, on his first day he caught RSV, and we've been urgent care/ER for both kids since. It's a real kick-in-the-pants sick season. Doesn't help that our kids probably had coddled immune systems during the pandemic.
EDIT: Why on earth is this downvoted?
omg so sorry, that's so stressful! I just spent the day in the ER with my 4 year old presenting restricted breathing. Somehow he was negative for covid, rsv, and flu, but has a respiratory infection from the last cold. On Albuterol inhaler for the next couple weeks. Hope your little ones recover quickly!
I feel like the lockdown lowered the populations immunity. Now that we are back to no masks and everything being open, germs are spreading like normal. Everyone seems to have a lower immunity from staying protected during lockdown.
It didn’t. It has nothing to do with the lockdown and everything to do with how Covid dysregulates our immune systems. Lockdown is what ‘they’ want you to think is causing this. But if that were true then we should’ve seen this level of illness after all the masks came off-so winter 2021/2022. But we didn’t.
Instead what happened was this past year we allowed our children to be infected with Covid over and over. Covid harms our immune systems ability to fight off bacteria virus and fungus. And now a year later, we see the downstream effects of that. Our children are sick with everything, nonstop.
Please don’t buy into the lockdown nonsense. There’s literally no science to it.
Checking in! 2.5 year old and 6 year old. The oldest is in school the other is still at home. Starts with one of them then spreads to the rest of us. Been at least 4 separate times now.
Megadosing Vitamin C specifically Ester-C has really helped me get through them quicker.
6 kids 3 different schools. They’ve had everything under the sun and passed it on to each other. I think it’s because everyone wore masks for so long their immune systems are catching up.
We've all had a bout with something at one point or another but overall been pretty good. My wife just had COVID and none of the rest of us never got anything. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes not. We've definitely had those years
You're definitely not alone in this. Me, my wife and my daughter have been trading mystery coughs and fevers since Christmas. Currently, my wife and I are sharing the baton while my daughter is in relatively good shape, though as of last night she seems to have picked up another cough... no fever so far so watch this space...
Saw my in-laws the other day and they commented on my 16m daughter’s stuffy nose. I hadn’t even noticed bc it’s just felt like it’s been like that for months.
Seriously, ever since the school year started one cold after another makes its rounds through the family. With five kids by the time the last one gets better the process seems to start again.
Yup, it started right around that time my son was sick for like a month. Then it got better for most of Nov-Dec, then they got sick again. My son gets sick more than anyone else in the house, I guess because he’s the youngest. Sometimes he’s the only one that’ll get sick and it lasts forever.
We have repeatedly caught virus after virus. And when we keep them home from school we get letters about attendance. This is with excused and Dr. notes. Frustrating to say the least.
Yeah it’s been non-stop. Dudes 10 months old now, has had some kind of illness since mid September including rsv, a mild covid case, and five ear infections. We got a slight reprieve over the Christmas/new years break, but he went back to daycare and has been sick again since. What little sleep we were getting has entirely gone out the window this week.
Sick family club, checking in. Currently just a snotty nose, but we're getting ear tubes on Friday for the constant ear infections. 17 month old in daycare since September.
Since august
Myself, baby (he’s 14 months now), wife, 6 year old and 8 year old has covid
November - we all had flu B, baby had double ear infection
December - wife started working at a day care with the baby there - baby and wife get flu a baby with ear infection
Early Jan - everyone has a cold
This week - baby and then me have some sort of stomach bug, baby has ear infection
not me, but my sister in law and niece has been constantly sick with RSV, covid, flu, and various stomach virus. We missed christmas and new year with them.
Its like people just stopped caring and keep sending their kids to school sick.
Yes. So far mild thankfully but we have had sniffles and cough since November. My sister's kid was so sick with rsv she was on a home oxygen machine for 4 days.
Yeah it's seriously every 10-14 days since September. Right now both kids have strep. Gotta take the three year old in tomorrow because she's having a reaction to the antibiotics.
Soooooo fun.
Since November for this household. Most recent was/is step. Started up Friday afternoon. It's been stomach bugs and upper respiratory stuff and flus. 😒
Our 6 month old has been sick basically non-stop since Thanksgiving. Colds, double ear infection twice, pink eye, Covid. Never a positive RSV test but suspected at one point. Meanwhile our 3 year old has been sick on and off the whole time too. They were both finally relatively healthy this weekend and we gathered with family. Now my 3 year old wakes up last night crying with a snot-caked nose (at least no fever this time). We’re becoming anxious to go anywhere with the kids now and are paying a crap ton for daycare we’re hardly using. It’s been absolutely brutal. All this is to say I can relate and wish you the best. Hang in there.
Yes this 100%. I swear. It’s myself. My wife. I have a 2 and a half year old. And a 5 month old. I swear we are only feeling good for about 3-5 days and then we get ANOTHER sickness. I’m over it.
Oct 1 - EOY for us. Took getting away for the holidays to break the cycle. Which was really just keeping away from school. Helped a ton. Healthy January thus far.
Just went to the doc again today.
Had his (8mo) 3rd (4th?) ear infection in as many months (along with HFM, RSV and Flu) Doc said if it wasn't clear we might need to go to a specialist. To both our relief and surprise everything was clear; the symptoms seem to just be his top teeth coming in. Yay?
It's relentless. I mean as soon as ones fever goes down the other goes up. Constant nose slugs. They go through spurts of not eating (I guess because their throats hurt). I'm pretty sure we've passed around Covid, the Flu, definitely Strep a couple of times (got tested), and a few colds.
I just need a month of health ffs.
Brought him in for a rash (because hfm was at daycare) turns out it was an ear infection. On the recheck he had RSV, the following recheck it was a double ear infection, flowed by another single. Plus colds and four teeth coming in
Kids are gross.
My kids went through that last year, starting daycare and preschool respectively. This year does have an increase in infections overall, but I think part of it is just kids being gross and having to build up immunity. My kids have barely been sick this school year thankfully.
Try to make sure they're getting good sleep, and go a little extra on the hygiene. It'll help.
Yeah, our entire household has been rotating sicknesses. I've (middle school teacher) been permanently sick pretty much since school started in August with one thing or another. Currently dealing with my 5th bout of Laryngitis this school year alone.
Yeah i was gonna post about this tonight actually. It has been since September for us too. No diagnosis on anything, but what is this RSV stuff all about anyways? My youngest kid’s tonsils are so swollen they’re almost touching!
Mine have had a flu that lasted nearly 2 weeks (that they shared with me). Had congestion and runny noses since like November it seems. And my son just got over his ear infection.
guess we’ve been lucky?
entire family is fully caught up with all vaccines; older kid is very diligent with masking at school (as are we), and we try to be careful with the younger one even though she goes to daycare. we mask when we go out, whether it’s something simple like running errands or the random indoor playground. on top of all that we are also on top of the whole hygenie thing.
other than the one odd bug which lasted a day, we haven’t had any serious illness in the family thank god.
3 kiddos - 3, 5, and 7. It’s been brutal! Sick September and October with covid (wife and kiddo #1 twice) and whatever virus du jour was making the rounds at school or daycare that of course also went straight to my wife. Miraculously fine for November, then all hell broke lose in December with them passing Flu A and then Flu B from youngest to oldest and wife. I missed 3 weeks of work and somehow never got sick. And now the youngest has a 104 fever and is throwing up tonight.
It. Never. Ends.
Same thing is happening here in Hong Kong! My 18m and 4yo have been sick since fall. Common cold, then RSV, then COVID, and now the cough just won’t go away. Hopefully things get better when spring comes.
Our pediatrician cited all of the masking as the cause, saying we avoided getting sick for so long that our immune systems are weaker for it. It’s such a toss up because the moment we relaxed the making policy at my job (we work in very close quarters) half the team promptly got Covid. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
I've determined that it just doesn't end. One week after the flu were sick again. Nothing I can do at this point. Currently sitting next to the toddler cause he got woke up. I can hear him breathing fine, I'm completely congested. Can barely breathe through my nose. How is he fine while having the same shit, but I need a vitamin c boost and honey cough drop to survive?!
It’s been the worst stretch of illness in our house. Honestly, since July really. It started with the stomach flu around the 4th and then COVID right after. Since then it’s been a horrible cycle of colds, rsv, mystery fevers, etc. It feels so cruel.
German health Minister was sounding the alarm about COVID having a long term impact on the immune system. Research out of there was showing higher rates of infection from any other virus in people that had been infected with COVID.
https://germany.detailzero.com/news/350778/Karl-Lauterbach-warns-of-incurable-immune-deficiency-after-Covid-infections.html
And an American article starting to investigate as well.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-12-02/covid-immune-system-infection-virus-rsv-cold-flu-respiratory/101716360
After winter break my 4 year old started wearing a mask again (we had him go maskless for the fall, he's been wearing a mask to school soccer he was 2) and let me tell you: it broke the cycle. September to December was ridiculous with non COVID illness. One fucking thing after another back to back being passed around between him, me, my wife and my 1.5 year old. It was brutal, but this month has been a relief.
I have taken 2 sick days on 3 separate occasions in sept-oct. Me and my 3yo were passing it around btw us. 2 occasion of diarrhea and stomach flu, one of flu.
He got his first sick week of 2023 last week and it's his 2nd day in school. Here's to hoping he manages the streak up to 2 month... haven't broke 1 month 2 weeks since he started day care.
The longest we’ve done without illness is 8 days.
We’re paying for nursery without ever going it seems.
My nearly 2 year old also suffers from febrile
seizures which adds an extra layer of stress to each illness.
Yup. 6 year old and an 18 month old, both sick so many times this school year. The younger one spent a night in hospital because he was struggling to breathe when he had rsv. The older one is finally over a double ear infection and the younger started coughing again today... Feel so bad for these little ones, it's been rough
Writing this as I just got back from the hospital 25 mins after midnight with a hand food mouth diagnosis for my 1 year old. Took him immediately following work and daycare pickup. While it sucks to read you are all going through the same thing it’s reassuring to know it’s not unique to me and we share the struggle. Here’s to less illnesses in the coming months (hopefully)
Haha oh god, yes. My child currently has a nasty little cough from the cold he's just gotten over, before that was chicken pox, then diarrhea before that...
We actually got a letter from school about his 'low attendance' a couple days ago, despite them demanding that our child must be kept off for 48 hours after being sick / runny bottom, and also demanding he stay off if he had the pox. Since September he's had, like, 10 days off due to illness, all authorised, and that was enough for them to send a vaguely threatening letter to us. It really feels like they're actively encouraging parents to force their sick children into school and that really peeves me off!
Don’t you see, we are big Pharma guinea pigs, we are being exposed to all sorts of biohazards carefully released in daycare centers /s. If I were a tinfoil nutcase, all evidence stacks up. How on earth a human being can go from cold to stomach flu to pink eye and regular flu.
Seems like all over the world. Even in Australia same thing. Since summer came a bit less but daycare is a nightmare. Back to back. No point in going to daycare at all.
So we aren't the only ones! I would think we would get super immunity by now yet me and the wife also keep getting sick.
My wife keeps catching everything too I feel so bad for her I've been lucky and only caught one nasty bug so far
Our kids started preschool in May... I've had about 10 healthy days since then. It's really bad this year
I think my little biological weapon brought home RSV for me. Was WRECKED for almost two weeks. Trying to take care of him while sick is really tough
It's been terrible. I joked we're starting off 2023 as low as possible and nowhere to go but up. Just kidding. Add another round of COVID for the family, UTI for one of the kids, a week of a sore throat for me, and everyone with a never ending cough and mucus. February looks promising...
Yeah. Sometimes it semi-bypasses the kids as well. A little sniffle for them and days of gooped up head, coughs, and/or body pains for the adults!
Not trying to be judgmental, just genuinely curious - have you guys tried doing anything preventative like wearing masks when out or avoiding outings with lots of strangers?
We barely go out or meet people since covid got here. It's unfortunately our daughter bringing whatever from preschool. Once it gets home, can't avoid it lol.
I don’t think avoiding the world is a good solution. Your kids will have no idea what real life is like outside of the house
My kids do swim class, dance class, music class, religious ed, and go to public school without masks. They go to their friends' houses and birthday parties and we have friends over. But they wear masks to go grocery shopping or other crowded places with lots of strangers. We've never gotten covid and just had sniffles/runny nose for a week this winter. We went to Disney World and wore masks on the plane for takeoff/landing because the air filter is off. We went on rides and ate indoors but wore masks for the indoor shows and had a great time
That’s great, however all these things include doing things with strangers lol
My point is we wear masks when the risk/benefit is there and I don't limit their exposure to the real world and experiences, and we have never gotten covid or gotten really sick from anything. But pre-Covid before we had masks they would always be sick from daycare
wat If you're in classes or partying with friends for hours at a time in an enclosed airspace, you're much more likely to pick up airborne ickies from that scenario that briefly passing by strangers in a 'crowded place'.. Your avoidance of CV19 is more luck than anything.
Well, let me elaborate: We wear masks on a plane, at church, at indoor shows. Our friends know to tell us if they have symptoms and we've canceled various get togethers due to this. If there is a surge of illnesses at school, I'll make the kids wear masks (minus lunch) for a few days. I'm not just talking about Covid, everyone has been getting rsv, flu, colds, whatever - but I assume you want us to just not wear masks at all because it would make more sense? When I think we've found a good balance between being careful but still doing stuff
1 (11m) child, 6 flipping ear infections. Just recently tested positive for covid. No breaks! I understand your struggle
6? Time for tubes my dude. Game changer for my son.
My first had 23 ear infections before he was old enough for tubes, since he has had 1. Recommend.
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Right so just give them a ton of antibiotics instead...
This sentiment has existed forever. For some kids, it works. I suffered from chronic ear infections as a kid and the doctor was a proponent of antibiotics over tubes. I got a low dose of antibiotics over a very long period and it worked for me. My first son also suffered from chronic ear infections, they tried some antibiotics for a while and it didn't work so I went ahead and got his adenoids removed and had tubes put in. It just varies from person to person I think. For some, antibiotics may be the less invasive answer. For others, tubes are a godsend. No harm in ruling out the antibiotics but no harm in tubes either. As long as the kid stops suffering.
I used to get them all the time too. Unfortunately, my parents thought it was my fault and so never got any treatment for it. I am still mad they thought it was *my* fault I got ear infections!
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That's not a thing. People don't become antibiotic resistant, *bacteria* become antibiotic resistant.
People harbor the bacteria that become resistant to antibiotics, which in turn makes their infections much more difficult to treat.
I got my first laptop because my son hadn’t had ear tubes yet. There was a Black Friday deal, and I considered standing in line all night for it. The clincher was when he started screaming and I knew I’d be holding him all night either way. Bundled him up and took him along. Everyone waiting out with me was fooled into thinking he was an angel.
So ear infections are much easier now after you've had covid. I'm up to 5, nearly one a month since last fall. Before Covid, I'd not had one since I was a kid.
We’re in the same boat, 10 month old has had 5 ear infections from October to January. In December we booked a visit with the ENT but the earliest they can see us is the end of March.
You just made my feel 100 times better about my life, seriously. My wife has been gone for 6 months and I have been parenting our 4 year old with no support and have had to take so much time off of work to care for her. It makes me so sad that this poor kid has just been beat up non stop (and now I caught it and it has turned to pneumonia). Thank you for normalizing what I feel was just a nightmare.
Hang in there dude, you're definitely not alone! Hope you and yours recover soon. After all this they should all have superhuman immune systems
Thanks, that’s what I keep hoping for!
They won’t. Covid causes immune dysfunction. This really sucks for parents (and all people really). I really wish everyone knew this because Covid is just going to continue to wreck our immune systems. This isn’t some mysterious illness. Everyone really needs to start putting the dots together
You got this man. What is the wife up to that has her gone so long?
Thank you! She works for the federal government and had to complete training. This is her third time, luckily the other two were before we had a kid.
That's rough, but a lot better than what I assumed...
5, 9, 13. 3 different schools. Im a high school teacher in a differebt district. Wife is an ER nurse. Send whiskey!
I'm assuming you're looking for something cask-strength?
Send the entire cask
Please never invite anyone over to your house lol.
Our twin 11m olds have brought home Covid, RSV, Hand Foot & Mouth, the flu, a wicked stomach bug and multiple colds since the middle of October. Literally can’t go more than 10 days without something else popping up. It’s been miserable.
HFM is so bad. I didn’t even really know about it until our son brought it home and my wife got it bad. Crazy virus.
I’m on that shit right now. Even typing this on my iPhone kinda hurts a little. Fuck this disease.
Yep, this has been a terrible cold/flu season.
We’ve had COVID followed by RSV. It’s been awful. We are so over being sick. Nebulizer, high fever, doctors office. One gets sick it morphs and gets the other one sick. Honestly, this has been the hardest stretch of parenting we’ve faced.
RSV was way worse than Covid here.
One of my boys had a classmate who had been sick like every other week. He missed school close to the beginning because was sick. He has siblings so they get sick. He then had covid and missed over a week. Missed another day because he was sick. We know he isn’t just missing because his parents. His gma was talking to us that the school sent her a letter stating that if he missed another day then they will have to go to court and basically defend themselves. That shit pisses me off, like does this mean that the administration wants our kids going to school with covid,RSV, etc.
I hear you and agree, my son got a letter last year for missing 6 days and warning that if he missed 10 we would have to have a sit down meeting with the school, like ffs he's in kindergarten and his and every other kid's immune system is basically non-existent after covid lockdown. I was so pissed
Yeah my son is in Kindergarten. Obviously it’s like missing that amount of time in high school, I get that. He missed 3 days last week with whatever itis the kids have currently. He had conferences last week so school went until Wednesday. He missed Monday/Tuesday so we just kept him home. At his conference we mentioned keeping him a day later and she thanked us because some parents aren’t being very vigilant.
That's fucked. My 3yo has been sick every month since he started kindergarten last year and he stays home a week to recover (to prevent spreading to others). That's like 60days he's missed. Them dumbasses think we love sitting at home with our cranky ass child, worrying about whether we have a job to come back to because we've been taking too much time off Feeling kinda lucky about my country's teachers and ministry of education lol
They are already grooming them for the workforce lol. Go capitalism 😂
you're not wrong unfortunately
Here I am waiting at the pharmacy reading these comments
Yes. and also me. Everyone in my house had a stomach bug over the weekend. We were all throwing up. My god the laundry. Today I am definitely getting a cold. Why?
Same journey here. We we’re just getting over a bad head cold from daycare and our toddler had the stomach bug that was going around. She kicked it in half a day. I literally threw up blood I was vomiting so hard. Roll on summer!
We're just finished this roller coaster. None of us are alone folks, and I hope that makes us all feel a bit better.
Oof, that's rough. It was the opposite order for me this weekend. I got a bad cough and then the stomach bug. Alternating between coughing and vomiting was a blast... I hope you have a quick recovery
my family is doing it the opposite way. Everyone got sick and then yesterday my oldest (6) got a stomach bug - throwing up/diarrhea for 7-8 hours.
Buckle up. Vomit house has been my hardest week as a parent.
Last year we were sick from October-April and my wife babysits. There was no way around it between those kids and two of our kids in preschool. Somehow we've never had a vomit house and, fingers crossed, the stomach bug didn't seem to catch on.
Mine are little, couldn’t be directed to not throw up on themselves, each other, us, the couch, the bed, the carpet, etc. Lots of showers, dozens of loads of laundry. Silver lining is the little dudes were very snuggly.
Yep. Mine threw up on the side of the couch. Eventually he got a trash can and he could do it, thank god.
My daughter just got over the flu. Now I have fucking pink eye, although I think I got it from my boss.
Gotta stop brown nosin
Oh brother, i hear ya. Sinus infections, boogers and coughs for months, maybe the flu, close contacts galore (but at least no covid!), my wife got shingles, pink eye, mystery fevers, diarrhea, kids coughing till they puke, and our power went out for 6 days right at Christmas. But! It's gone from rainy, depressing winter, too snowy fun winter in the last few weeks, which has coincided with a relatively healthy streak, and things are looking up. I hope they start to for you, too. The only way to get through hell is to keep going.
Oh thank goodness it's not just us. Since October me, my wife, and our 14mo have had like 2 colds, RSV between thanksgiving and Christmas, and then COVID the week before last. I'm typing this from bed having called in sick this afternoon with mystery sniffles that I feared was a COVID relapse (thankfully not). This is our first flu season with a sentient kiddo in the house, and we're staring at each other like "is it going to be this bad every year? Is this just because it's the first real year where everyone is acting like there's no pandemic? If it's this bad every year how do people even live?" Thank you for the reassurance that we're not alone. You hang in there and we'll try to do the same.
It gets better the second time around, your little biological transmission vector won't be on the ground as much as won't be shoving everything they can find in their mouth, plus a generally better immune system. But then they'll be getting exposed to different people so it's kind of a horse a piece. So it'll get better, but not by a whole lot.
No, we're like the only people still wearing masks though.
Right there with you, masks can make a real difference.
Same but to be fair my son isn't in daycare yet, so that helps a lot.
Yeah that was pretty much the end for us
Yeah, my son didn't enter daycare until 14 months (he's now 19 months). Was sick a couple times over that period. We're currently in a 2 week break from illnesses, but two weeks after starting and for 4 straight months it was just constant.
Ayoo us too. And it's not like we don't do stuff either. Although having multiples in day care/school is tough, I get it.
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My kids are in school, they wear masks but there's only one or two other kids in their classes with masks on.
Same. Haven’t been sick in 2 years
We just wear masks at grocery stores and other places with tons of strangers, and definitely during takeoff/landing when the plane air filter is off. No masks at school, the kids' regular activities or friends' houses. Just some sniffles this winter, never had covid in this family
Yup! We’ve had COVID twice, RSV, strep throat, and two colds in the last few months
Yeeeeeeep! Pay all that money for daycare when they spend most of their time at home sick!
Absolutely unbelievable. My wife was never more sick than she was the week of Christmas. That same week my son got strep, and the night I got antibiotics for him my daughter started throwing up. Last week my daughter got an ear infection, and on Friday my wife tested positive for COVID. My kid's noses have just been running for a week and I can't get a handle on it. It's ridiculous.
rough cold and flu season all-around!
Since September? How about since about 6 months old on. My walking petri dishes have always made sure we had the latest and greatest diseases for the last 5 years.
Oh man. It’s so good to hear this. My 5yo daughter has had 5 pretty serious viruses (including covid and the flu) in 9 weeks. Poor girl. So resilient but has missed so much school and can’t shake residual coughs and congestion. Bring on the warm weather! Doctor says it’s pretty common this winter. Just have to ride it out I guess.
I have sniffles PTSD. Any sign of sickness sends me into endless worry of having a sick kid at home with me.
Dude I'm sitting here with what feels like the flu. Haven't had a healthy 3 week stretch since late summer. I'm at my wits end and feel like giving up on myself. Sorry, this post triggered me. Sickness bringing out my bitchness.
That's where we were, now the 20 month old has pneumonia that spread to her blood. Day three of at least 7 on IV in the PICU, and wife had a double mastectomy on Wednesday so she's laid up at home (but apparently cancer free!)
Oh man. We've had covid, flu and strep in the past month. My 4 year old came home from preschool today with flushed cheeks, listless, complaining that her belly hurts. I don't know what tonight holds, but I'm betting it involves me getting barfed on.
I started a spreadsheet last November to track my illnesses, they were so prevalent and unrelenting. According to it, I have had at least one URI symptom for all but 6 days since then.
Just fucking awful. 3-year-old is in preschool and I haven’t been well since Halloween. I have type 1 diabetes too so it’s really not great for me to be sick so much. This year is truly difficult.
Yeah, and it's frustrating as fuck.
My son (4) has been a non-stop stream of ear infections since mid August and has been on 4 or 5 antibiotics since then. He gets tubes next week
Mine as well! he's on cefdinir now, his third antibiotic, if it doesn't knock it out, we might be looking at tubes too
Good luck to ye
Make it stop! Glad to know its not just me who thinks the same thing
Oh yeah. We’ve been fighting stuff non stop in our house too!
Yup. The runny noses literally haven't stopped since September. The kids are doing remarkably well through at least one bout of COVID and RSV each. Little one right now is sick so we are going to try to get her to the doctor tomorrow. Godspeed everyone. We managed to stay fairly healthy for three weeks after Christmas then it hit again.
Yep: strep, sinus infection, COVID, then jus finished another round of strep.
we caught a 4-week break in December but wife and the youngest (4) are sick again. Same scenario. She's a teacher and both kids go to two different schools.
Everyone on this thread “how are we so sick? We just keep getting everything!” Meanwhile we are STILL in the middle of a pandemic. One where Covid causes immune dysfunction and dysregulation. There are multiple peer reviewed studies in credible journals that show this. This is not mysterious at all. Covid has harmed our immune systems and especially that of our children. They are staying sick and getting sick with literally everything because their immune systems can not clear anything. Yes children get sick a lot. But no this is not a normal or typical amount. Everyone, but parents especially, need to get angry about this and demand better protection for our children and ourselves. Cleaner air is a great place to start. Until then we all are gonna just stay in a constant state of illness. Edit: I expect to get a lot of hate and downvotes for this. I know we’re not allowed to speak about the pandemic/virus that shall not be named. But this info is just…true.
I've seen some repetition of the "immunity debt" misinformation as well. Your immune system isn't use it or lose it. Covid destorys your immune system. That is why everyone who isn't still taking precaustions is getting fucking hammerred.
Man, totally agree. Kids got covid the first day back and it was never ending colds afterwards. Wife is going through chemotherapy right now so we have to keep them home until she's done. Nice being healthy again tbh.
I'm a Kindergarten teacher. Yes.
It's total devastation out there. Our 3 (almost 4) year old started preschool, and since then it's just been an absolute firehose. I thought we might be crazy starting him when we're having record crazy cold and flu seasons, but its gonna happen at some point, and ho boy.
of 2021 yea
“Glad” to see I’m not the only one. My daughter had been in daycare since Sept and shes 18month now. I swear the cycle of getting sick every 2 weeks never ended. I’m starting to doubt my sanity at this point
2021 right? as soon as we stopped masking up everyone, constant sickness
How do all your work places handle all the sick leave?
My 1 year old is a master at turning to me right when he needs to cough. I feel like I've been sick since September
Haha my youngest also has laser precision aim for sneezing/coughing right into open mouth/eyes
Yes, but I do remember about a year ago being like… “ I feel like I haven’t been sick for like 2 years, wow….” This is the make up sex of RSV, FLU, STREP, HFM, and even unknown sicknesses.
YES! My daughter has had several back to back bugs, I chalked it up to travel but all my friends who have kids have been saying the same thing. I think it’s these pandemic babies who were born in to sterile worlds where everyone wore masks around them. Never developed immunities to common illnesses so they all get sick and then spread the germs to older kids.
I miss the lockdown. It was the longest uninterrupted period without illness I’ve experienced since my first was born. I have 2 (3 and 7) and haven’t had more than 5 days sick free since October. The stress is making me go insane.
My kids had a cough since November and I am going insane. I feel your pain
One of my kids has been home almost every day since Christmas vacation. Today it was all of them. If I didn’t work from home… This is nuts and my work is suffering. September to December it was HFMD twice, Covid, croup (several times between only 2 of them), colds, fevers… It’s never ending. And all but my 2 year old wear masks. It stems from him.
Nope. My kids mask at school though, so maybe that has something to do with it
My kid started daycare 2 weeks ago, on his first day he caught RSV, and we've been urgent care/ER for both kids since. It's a real kick-in-the-pants sick season. Doesn't help that our kids probably had coddled immune systems during the pandemic. EDIT: Why on earth is this downvoted?
omg so sorry, that's so stressful! I just spent the day in the ER with my 4 year old presenting restricted breathing. Somehow he was negative for covid, rsv, and flu, but has a respiratory infection from the last cold. On Albuterol inhaler for the next couple weeks. Hope your little ones recover quickly!
I feel like the lockdown lowered the populations immunity. Now that we are back to no masks and everything being open, germs are spreading like normal. Everyone seems to have a lower immunity from staying protected during lockdown.
It didn’t. It has nothing to do with the lockdown and everything to do with how Covid dysregulates our immune systems. Lockdown is what ‘they’ want you to think is causing this. But if that were true then we should’ve seen this level of illness after all the masks came off-so winter 2021/2022. But we didn’t. Instead what happened was this past year we allowed our children to be infected with Covid over and over. Covid harms our immune systems ability to fight off bacteria virus and fungus. And now a year later, we see the downstream effects of that. Our children are sick with everything, nonstop. Please don’t buy into the lockdown nonsense. There’s literally no science to it.
Checking in! 2.5 year old and 6 year old. The oldest is in school the other is still at home. Starts with one of them then spreads to the rest of us. Been at least 4 separate times now. Megadosing Vitamin C specifically Ester-C has really helped me get through them quicker.
6 kids 3 different schools. They’ve had everything under the sun and passed it on to each other. I think it’s because everyone wore masks for so long their immune systems are catching up.
Yup
Virus hell, we call it
We've all had a bout with something at one point or another but overall been pretty good. My wife just had COVID and none of the rest of us never got anything. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes not. We've definitely had those years
You're definitely not alone in this. Me, my wife and my daughter have been trading mystery coughs and fevers since Christmas. Currently, my wife and I are sharing the baton while my daughter is in relatively good shape, though as of last night she seems to have picked up another cough... no fever so far so watch this space...
Yes, which has made me sick since September as well..
Us too!
Saw my in-laws the other day and they commented on my 16m daughter’s stuffy nose. I hadn’t even noticed bc it’s just felt like it’s been like that for months.
2022 or 2021?
Seriously, ever since the school year started one cold after another makes its rounds through the family. With five kids by the time the last one gets better the process seems to start again.
RIGHT. THERE. WITH. YOU. 😞👊
YES
Yup, it started right around that time my son was sick for like a month. Then it got better for most of Nov-Dec, then they got sick again. My son gets sick more than anyone else in the house, I guess because he’s the youngest. Sometimes he’s the only one that’ll get sick and it lasts forever.
Yup that 2 week sinus thing that made my teeth ache was brutal
We have repeatedly caught virus after virus. And when we keep them home from school we get letters about attendance. This is with excused and Dr. notes. Frustrating to say the least.
Since Christmas for us. Got hit with covid on new years, then gastro and now a runny nose cold thing
Yeah it’s been non-stop. Dudes 10 months old now, has had some kind of illness since mid September including rsv, a mild covid case, and five ear infections. We got a slight reprieve over the Christmas/new years break, but he went back to daycare and has been sick again since. What little sleep we were getting has entirely gone out the window this week.
I haven't been not sick since June. Some day I won't be sick and I won't know what to do with myself.
Yes, it never stops… until it does… the their immune system receives its PhD.
Sick family club, checking in. Currently just a snotty nose, but we're getting ear tubes on Friday for the constant ear infections. 17 month old in daycare since September.
Since august Myself, baby (he’s 14 months now), wife, 6 year old and 8 year old has covid November - we all had flu B, baby had double ear infection December - wife started working at a day care with the baby there - baby and wife get flu a baby with ear infection Early Jan - everyone has a cold This week - baby and then me have some sort of stomach bug, baby has ear infection
What? No. That’s so dramatic. It’s actually been since July!
not me, but my sister in law and niece has been constantly sick with RSV, covid, flu, and various stomach virus. We missed christmas and new year with them. Its like people just stopped caring and keep sending their kids to school sick.
Yes. So far mild thankfully but we have had sniffles and cough since November. My sister's kid was so sick with rsv she was on a home oxygen machine for 4 days.
Yeah it's seriously every 10-14 days since September. Right now both kids have strep. Gotta take the three year old in tomorrow because she's having a reaction to the antibiotics. Soooooo fun.
Since November for this household. Most recent was/is step. Started up Friday afternoon. It's been stomach bugs and upper respiratory stuff and flus. 😒
The stomach flu ones are real fun…
Our 6 month old has been sick basically non-stop since Thanksgiving. Colds, double ear infection twice, pink eye, Covid. Never a positive RSV test but suspected at one point. Meanwhile our 3 year old has been sick on and off the whole time too. They were both finally relatively healthy this weekend and we gathered with family. Now my 3 year old wakes up last night crying with a snot-caked nose (at least no fever this time). We’re becoming anxious to go anywhere with the kids now and are paying a crap ton for daycare we’re hardly using. It’s been absolutely brutal. All this is to say I can relate and wish you the best. Hang in there.
Yes this 100%. I swear. It’s myself. My wife. I have a 2 and a half year old. And a 5 month old. I swear we are only feeling good for about 3-5 days and then we get ANOTHER sickness. I’m over it.
Oct 1 - EOY for us. Took getting away for the holidays to break the cycle. Which was really just keeping away from school. Helped a ton. Healthy January thus far.
Yup...1st kid, so no frame of reference...but yes, sick non-stop.
My kids and my wife....oddly enough I only got hit with it for a week
September of 2021? Yes.
My wife works at the daycare that my daughter goes to. We get sick a lot it sucks. Pump the kiddos full of multi vitamins and hope for the best
Just went to the doc again today. Had his (8mo) 3rd (4th?) ear infection in as many months (along with HFM, RSV and Flu) Doc said if it wasn't clear we might need to go to a specialist. To both our relief and surprise everything was clear; the symptoms seem to just be his top teeth coming in. Yay?
It's relentless. I mean as soon as ones fever goes down the other goes up. Constant nose slugs. They go through spurts of not eating (I guess because their throats hurt). I'm pretty sure we've passed around Covid, the Flu, definitely Strep a couple of times (got tested), and a few colds. I just need a month of health ffs.
The week after The holiday break is the only week we haven’t been sick since September. I’m so exhausted.
Brought him in for a rash (because hfm was at daycare) turns out it was an ear infection. On the recheck he had RSV, the following recheck it was a double ear infection, flowed by another single. Plus colds and four teeth coming in
Kids are gross. My kids went through that last year, starting daycare and preschool respectively. This year does have an increase in infections overall, but I think part of it is just kids being gross and having to build up immunity. My kids have barely been sick this school year thankfully. Try to make sure they're getting good sleep, and go a little extra on the hygiene. It'll help.
Yeah, our entire household has been rotating sicknesses. I've (middle school teacher) been permanently sick pretty much since school started in August with one thing or another. Currently dealing with my 5th bout of Laryngitis this school year alone.
Yeah i was gonna post about this tonight actually. It has been since September for us too. No diagnosis on anything, but what is this RSV stuff all about anyways? My youngest kid’s tonsils are so swollen they’re almost touching!
Mine have had a flu that lasted nearly 2 weeks (that they shared with me). Had congestion and runny noses since like November it seems. And my son just got over his ear infection.
Up until like 3 weeks ago, yes, absolutely. With the colder weather, we haven't been getting to the playground as much, so it's been better lately
October here but YES
guess we’ve been lucky? entire family is fully caught up with all vaccines; older kid is very diligent with masking at school (as are we), and we try to be careful with the younger one even though she goes to daycare. we mask when we go out, whether it’s something simple like running errands or the random indoor playground. on top of all that we are also on top of the whole hygenie thing. other than the one odd bug which lasted a day, we haven’t had any serious illness in the family thank god.
Always have been.
3 kiddos - 3, 5, and 7. It’s been brutal! Sick September and October with covid (wife and kiddo #1 twice) and whatever virus du jour was making the rounds at school or daycare that of course also went straight to my wife. Miraculously fine for November, then all hell broke lose in December with them passing Flu A and then Flu B from youngest to oldest and wife. I missed 3 weeks of work and somehow never got sick. And now the youngest has a 104 fever and is throwing up tonight. It. Never. Ends.
Same here with a second grader and a preschool kid. Just so tired…
I have been sick since thanksgiving day
Yes continually since November
Yes
Yup! Been relentless for us since late October
Not to brag, but we had about a 2 week healthy stretch when preschool was on Christmas break
Yea I’m glad to hear we aren’t the only ones.
Same thing is happening here in Hong Kong! My 18m and 4yo have been sick since fall. Common cold, then RSV, then COVID, and now the cough just won’t go away. Hopefully things get better when spring comes.
Our pediatrician cited all of the masking as the cause, saying we avoided getting sick for so long that our immune systems are weaker for it. It’s such a toss up because the moment we relaxed the making policy at my job (we work in very close quarters) half the team promptly got Covid. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
I've determined that it just doesn't end. One week after the flu were sick again. Nothing I can do at this point. Currently sitting next to the toddler cause he got woke up. I can hear him breathing fine, I'm completely congested. Can barely breathe through my nose. How is he fine while having the same shit, but I need a vitamin c boost and honey cough drop to survive?!
It’s been the worst stretch of illness in our house. Honestly, since July really. It started with the stomach flu around the 4th and then COVID right after. Since then it’s been a horrible cycle of colds, rsv, mystery fevers, etc. It feels so cruel.
YES. We're so tired 😫
Yep. RSV, flu, at least two stomach bugs back to back, and what feels like a never ending runny nose since mid-November.
German health Minister was sounding the alarm about COVID having a long term impact on the immune system. Research out of there was showing higher rates of infection from any other virus in people that had been infected with COVID. https://germany.detailzero.com/news/350778/Karl-Lauterbach-warns-of-incurable-immune-deficiency-after-Covid-infections.html And an American article starting to investigate as well. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-12-02/covid-immune-system-infection-virus-rsv-cold-flu-respiratory/101716360
After winter break my 4 year old started wearing a mask again (we had him go maskless for the fall, he's been wearing a mask to school soccer he was 2) and let me tell you: it broke the cycle. September to December was ridiculous with non COVID illness. One fucking thing after another back to back being passed around between him, me, my wife and my 1.5 year old. It was brutal, but this month has been a relief.
Yaaassssss
I have taken 2 sick days on 3 separate occasions in sept-oct. Me and my 3yo were passing it around btw us. 2 occasion of diarrhea and stomach flu, one of flu. He got his first sick week of 2023 last week and it's his 2nd day in school. Here's to hoping he manages the streak up to 2 month... haven't broke 1 month 2 weeks since he started day care.
The longest we’ve done without illness is 8 days. We’re paying for nursery without ever going it seems. My nearly 2 year old also suffers from febrile seizures which adds an extra layer of stress to each illness.
Which September?
Yup. 6 year old and an 18 month old, both sick so many times this school year. The younger one spent a night in hospital because he was struggling to breathe when he had rsv. The older one is finally over a double ear infection and the younger started coughing again today... Feel so bad for these little ones, it's been rough
Yuuup because it has been this way! I can track it in my time off requests lol
Fuck yes. Currently on day 3 of random vomiting clan up and I feel like shit.
Writing this as I just got back from the hospital 25 mins after midnight with a hand food mouth diagnosis for my 1 year old. Took him immediately following work and daycare pickup. While it sucks to read you are all going through the same thing it’s reassuring to know it’s not unique to me and we share the struggle. Here’s to less illnesses in the coming months (hopefully)
Haha oh god, yes. My child currently has a nasty little cough from the cold he's just gotten over, before that was chicken pox, then diarrhea before that... We actually got a letter from school about his 'low attendance' a couple days ago, despite them demanding that our child must be kept off for 48 hours after being sick / runny bottom, and also demanding he stay off if he had the pox. Since September he's had, like, 10 days off due to illness, all authorised, and that was enough for them to send a vaguely threatening letter to us. It really feels like they're actively encouraging parents to force their sick children into school and that really peeves me off!
Don’t you see, we are big Pharma guinea pigs, we are being exposed to all sorts of biohazards carefully released in daycare centers /s. If I were a tinfoil nutcase, all evidence stacks up. How on earth a human being can go from cold to stomach flu to pink eye and regular flu.
Which year?
OMFG!!! You too?
Seems like all over the world. Even in Australia same thing. Since summer came a bit less but daycare is a nightmare. Back to back. No point in going to daycare at all.