How often does your children get sick in Childcare?

[mintcc]

actually, my almost 3 yr old is now o about 1.-2months interval in between "downtime" /visit to doc

[xuan28]

my child started going to childcare at the age of 20 months.

at first, she fell sick only about once every 2-3 weeks.
each time she fell sick, she had to stay at home for at least 3-4 days.
then she started falling sick more frequently, about once every 1-2 weeks.
she even kenna the HFMD this year in Mar/Apr.
in Jun, she kept falling sick, and only attended school for 2-3 days out of the whole month.

i felt frustrated and sick of bringing her to the PD each time she falls sick. the medicine is always the same (for flu-like symptoms, cough etc.) and it doesn’t seem to help.
i’m trying out chinese medicine now and it seems to have improved her health.
she has not been sick for the whole of Jul and seems to have broken the chain of falling sick once every few weeks.

[wswslim]

Just for feeback.


I’m working mum, has 1 boy (K2) & girl (nursery) currently full day study at child care since their age 2.5 years. If them sick i need to take leave to take good care of them.

Luckily before enrol them, i got good advise from centre teacher. She advise me every weekend provide them to drink barley, lo han goa because kid easy get sick if thier body is heaty. Moreover some center did provide them cake or fried noodle etc.

Hope these advice is useful.

[khorkar]

I can imagine the trouble. We use to send our 3 yr old to nearby childcare and and i believe it or not, he gets sick every 3 weeks. Imagine parents have 2-3 kids, children takes turn to get sick. That means, parents like ourselves have take off days every 2-3 weeks.

[vfong1]

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Does your child fall sick easily after attending childcare? My child falls sick very month.

How to increase her immunity?

[Ivanlew]

vfong1:

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Does your child fall sick easily after attending childcare? My child falls sick very month.

How to increase her immunity?

Why not you try to give her Vitamin C daily?

[vfong1]

Does cod liver oil help too?

[ChiefKiasu]

vfong1:

Does cod liver oil help too?

Take a look at the http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewforum.php?f=32. Plenty of comments on supplements for children, and what to do to build up immunity.

[vfong1]

ChiefKiasu:

vfong1:

Does cod liver oil help too?

Take a look at the http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewforum.php?f=32. Plenty of comments on supplements for children, and what to do to build up immunity.

Thanks Chief!

[sashimi]

Assuming that sending your child to CC is mandatory, the best thing to do is to bear with it and over time strengthen your child’s immunity.


My personal recommendation is a regular dose of honey and cod liver oil, plus lots of water. Vitamin C has proven to be vastly over-rated, it has never done a thing for my family (sorry Ivan).

However I also believe that no two persons, including kids, are alike, so different people will respond to different formulae. It’s necessary to experiment and monitor.

The other two factors are environment(al pollution) and diet. Eg. no amount of supplements is going to help if the child is allowed to consume unhealthy/unhelpful things regularly, which can range from cold drinks to candy. Sleep and rest are also absolutely vital.

When your child falls sick, you have to try hard to control her so she can recover quickly, as prolonged sickness will weaken the body more and more.

Eg. no cold drinks, no ice cream, no dairy products, no chocolate, heaty foods, get lots of sleep, drink lots of water, etc.

It’s not easy, I fail at it sometimes too, but got to try.

Very young kids by nature have limited immunity, it will take a few years, I suppose, to strengthen it. But we must do our utmost to nurture that growth.