Letting baby cry without consoling him

So Frustrated...My DD getting sick everyother week.

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Posted 03/07/2013

We all take a MiEssence product called InLiven.

They're an organic company and it's the most efficient, most complete probiotic I have found... plus I like that our whole family uses the same product!



Things are beautiful if you love them. ~ Jean Anouilh

Posted 03/08/2013

Is she getting sick with a fever or just coughing and congested all the time?

Both my girls have allergies--seasonal as well as others. My LO's milk allergy manifests in a runny nose with just the slightest exposure to dairy in baked goods. We do a lot of label reading.

If she gets a runny nose, then likely she'll get a cough because it runs down her throat when she sleeps. They take Zyrtec for the allergies and also Flonase for the runny nose. If they are fever free for 24 hours, then they can go to school, even if they still have a bit of a runny nose and cough (that's the policy at both their schools).

One thing that made a big difference for us with our OD was when she was at a child care center that had a hand-washing policy. They had all the children and parents wash their hands when they arrived in the morning, before the kids could start playing. When my OD started kindergarten, they didn't do that and she started getting sick all the time again (I also figured it was a new set of germs in a new environment). I recommended the hand-washing policy, and when they started doing that, the amount of shared germs really decreased.

Good luck--I know that having a sick kiddo is no fun.


Amy: Mom to Hannah, Sarah, wife to Kelly



Posted 03/08/2013

My daughter had to start pre-school early because I needed to work.  And she was sick quite often.  It seemed every other weekend she was dealing with a cold. I agree with all of the posters who've suggested allergies might play a role.  However, I also agree with your doctor who says that it takes time for little ones immune systems to get strong enough to ward off all the preschool germs.





Mom of Camryn 9/15/09

Posted 03/09/2013

I am sorry that she is sick so often. I can imagine that it is hard on her and you as well. Apart from allergies, you could also ask your doctor if she might have asthma. It is a little bit difficult to detect in children, and doctors might sometimes miss it. It is easily treatable.

I also think what the previous poster said about probiotics is a good idea. The other thing you can try is giving her saline nose drops (a couple of drops in each nostril) once or twice a day through winter. They are harmless (it is just sterile, lightly salted water). It hellps keep your air passges (nose, throat, etc.) moist. The main reason that viruses infect your air passages easily in winter is because they dry up quickly in cold weather. The same thing happens when the AC is on all day in summer. When you keep them moist, there is less chance that viruses can get in.

I hope your daughter is better soon. Good luck to you and your daughter.

Posted 03/09/2013

count us in the same boat :/ My daughter had strep and 2 weeks later she got sick again. She goes to a in home sitter 


Heather mommy to a <3 5 year old prince Braden Jaykob 1-15-07<3 and a <3  3 old princess Taylor Renea 9-14-09 <2

Posted 03/11/2013

Having a 7.5 year-old who is in 1st grade, I will tell you that the best thing you can do is keep your LO in daycare/preschool and not keep pulling them out.  DS started daycare a few months before he turned 2, and ever since then (over 5.5 years) he's been in daycare/school setting.  Sure, he was "sick" with a cough, runny nose and the occasional cold on and off for the first few years in daycare and then pre-k, but by the time he started kindergarten his immune system had already taken a beating and he was able to fight things off much faster.  You can always tell the kids who haven't been exposed to things as they miss much more school when they are older.  He missed 2 days of kindergarten for being sick, and just 1 day of 1st grade (and they are almost 3/4 of the way done with the year.  Sure, he still gets the occasional cough and runny nose, but that's it.  DD is in preschool, and to be honest it doesn't bother me that she's exposed to things like that. I would seriously rather have her be affected now, than later on when it matters, and you can only miss a certain number of days before it counts against you.  

If I were you, I'd just keep her in and let her body "take it's beating" now.  I know it seems like she's sick all the time, but all of those symptoms you are describing are her body naturally fighting things off.  If it's just a cough and runny nose, and there is no fever involved, then I really don't qualify that a sick.  It just comes with the territory of being a kid.

Oh, and we don't give our kids any vitamins or supplements of any kind and they are just fine without them.  They have never taken them, and we don't plan on giving them unless it was something that was medically necessary.  Our kids are just fine with healthy foods, plenty of sleep, lots of activity and exercise, regular handwashing (but not overly done with the sanitizing and handwashing) and just and then keeping them home and minimizing exposure to others when they are honestly "for real" sick.



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