My little girl always seems to have an illness of some sort, whether it be a runny nose, an ear infection, a belly ache or a cold!
I try my best to keep my house clean, i change her sheets once a week, i soak her dummies in boiling water for 2 minutes, then in cold for 1 minute. I rinse her bottles in cold water, then wash them in warm soapy water, then rinse them TWICE in warm water.
I feed her plenty of fresh fruit....plenty of salad veges, and normal veges when she'll eat them. She has a different kind of meat every night and she has a healthy snack and a not so healthy snack every day! What am i doing incorrectly?
Please help?
Oh and about immunizations they are made by professional to attack certain virus's . a cold virus is always changing just like the flu. the shot does help threaten the severity,.There is no shot available for the colds yet because colds always change. The best thing we use is zicam cold nose spray and ennercia. oh and my doctor always tells us that if you are on an antibiotic 24 hours after you start throw the toothbrush away and get a new one. we live in the middle of no-where so I soak the in hydrogen peroxide.
Well I am probably going to make people mad. I don't know who ever started saying a child needs to build up an immunity to illness's so they won't get so sick. HOGWASH!!! You are doing a great job keeping everything clean and the fewer people she is around the lesser she will be sick. I say if you are worried about her being ill all the time consult a doctor. I had a premature baby that only weighed 1pd. 12 oz. I cleaned like you and even made my other 3 children take baths right after school. We did this until she was two and i can count how many times on one hand that she was sick and it was the healthiest two years for all of my kids. The worst place to pick up a cold is at church, everyone goes to church even if they are sick. I say keep her away from other people and only go and play with kids who are healthy. One runny nose leads to another no matter how Immune the child is.
That was very good that you took such good care of your kids!! I do feel however that there is a big difference between a premature baby and a child that was born at the typical weight. It is deffinately more dangerous for a premature baby to get sick because they need to have the time after they are born to catch up to the size and weight that they are supposed to be (size for date or something like that I think they call it). If a premature child gets sick they may have a harder time getting better from an illness because their bodies are even more immature that a normal size and weight body. There is no harm in keeping your house as clean as you like.....I ate dirt and I lived. LOL I think that is what people everyone is just kinda getting at.
well i suppose your against immunisation shots too... because they help build up an immunity to illness to so that the child does not get sick.....
and to wrap a child up in cotton wool and exclude them from being around other poeple well thats just cruel how are they supposed to learn how to interact....
infact the only way their going to learn how to interact with other poeple is to be around other poeple....
life is full of germs and bugs they are in the chopping centre in the park and in the playground in the home the car and evrywhere you go... they will always be exposed to germs the least one can do is build up their immune system so when they do get sick it is not as bad as it could be...
just like with immunisations they dont always stop the child from getting sick but they make it so it is not as sever or life threatening and so they can recover faster....
i hope this makes sense.....
first of all you are rude. I did give all of my children their immunizations, infact my last premi we had all of her immunization shots done in the first year of her life. We gave her, her imms every eight weeks until she was finished. She also got a 3000 dollar shot every month from october to april the first two years to help her if she did get RSV. My child was not even supposed to be able to walk until she was almost two year old and she was walking by one year. She didn't get that way by keeping her closed in. I only let children come over who were not sick. when I said the pun about who started the need to build up an immunity to illnesses it was not directed towards you. I have heard our local wick office tell people that same statement and they are the reason that another premi born to a 19 year old was put back into the hospital with rsv. I don't know how much you know about this virus but if it becomes severe the baby is put into a medically induced comma and put on a respirator.
I am sry that you had to go through what you did with your childs illness....
but you said and i quote whoever said a child need to build up their immunity to illness. HOGWASH!!!! And thats exactly what immunisations do....
I was not in anyway trying to be rude but make you realise what a ridiculous statement that was..... and the fact is with the exception of a few children it seams yours included they still need to build up an immunity...
my daughter has been sick only once and I have exposed her to other kids and poeple whether they are sick or not... Infact I still had to breast feed her when I had the rotar virus gastroenteritis.... So i could not wrap her up in cotton wool and protect her from the germ so why should i keep others away from her....
She 7 mnth old and she plays in the dirt... we take her swimming down the beach (well actually we just sit in the water and play with her there but you now what i mean...)....
we let her play with the toys in the doctors surgery and at the baby clinic... and yet she still yet to get sick except for that one occasion when she was 6 week old.... And shock horror when i did start bottle feeding at 2.5 mnth of age i never once sterilised her bottles just used hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly....
Yet with all that she is the healthiest little girl you have ever seen....
I understand there are exceptions to every rule and your child was one of them but generally it is best to build up their immune system...
ok i know you dont like me or that fact that my point of view conflicts with yours but i was realy nice in that one what did i say this time to rate a 1 star in my most recent comment....
because if this your petty way at getting back at me i can get nasty but i realy dont want to....
I agree with everyone else. More contact she has with others and the outside world is better. I did the same with my first becuase she was born so little i thought i had to protect her from all the germs and that made my life real bad becuase she was always sick. Told the doctor and he suggested to put her into daycare for a day a week if i wasnt prepared to go out with her. So i did that and she was still sick for the first 3 months with colds she caught from other kids but touch wood she has not been sick for 2 years now. I only kept her in day car for 8 months. she is now home playing with her younger sister and they catch germs of each other which works good for me if one has cold they get it together and they finish together. Good luck dont stress so much u are doing a great job!!!!
Just wanted to add a little hope to what everyone has said. I have 3 children between 8 and 13. What I found was that the kids were often sick when they were little at home or at daycare. But guess what, from the time they started Big school, they had no illnesses. I had to assume their immunity had been built up before, and made them strong when it counted! Much better than never sick, then when they're finally at school and you can sit down, they're sick then!! Try not to worry too much about it - if you can;t stop worrying see your doctor or go to playgroup for reassurance.
I agree with all the others
you are doing nothing wrong you are just being a caring protective Mum, probably the only difference is you protect her from germs so well in your own home that when she comes into contact with others she has no real immunity to the germs they carry so consequently picks up any bug going around
Don't be down on yourself, you are doing great. Kids have a knack of picking up bugs all the time,
xx
I agree with everything everyone else is saying.... YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG!!!!
And as already stated try not to over sanitise everything as your child does need to build up their immune system.... in fact why not go play in the dirt and maybe make mud pies...However If you are really worried you could talk to your childs doctor and ask him about having an immune system test...
Firstly I know for a fact your not doing anything wrong !!
Also kids will be kids and kids get sick a lot more than us adults. It's very normal for a young child to get sick alot.
Sounds to me like her little immune system hasn't quite built up yet. Maybe stop sanitizing everything. She needs a few germs to help her built it up. At her ago soapy water is fine for washing everything from bottles to dummies.
Keep up the good work!
i have to agree with everyone else here, you're not doing anything wrong at all..some kids never get sick, some get sick all the time, and others go through cycles of where they seem to be sick for a long period of time and well for a long period of time..being obsessive about germs while good to a degree can also be harmful, if your kids arent exposed they wont build up an immunity to them and thus wont be armed to fight the infections they get..also, if yourchild is in daycare they will bring home whatever is going. simply becuase of the contact with other children.. toddlers and young children havent quiet mastered the art of hands over mouths...or hand washing... a Dr once told me that a healthy child will have on average about 9 "colds" per year..and it takes about a week or so to get over one...maybe longer.. do the math...thats like a cold every 5 weeks...not to mention any other illness the child may pick up during the course of the year... please, stop beating yourself up and try and relax a little, a stressed out worried mum is not good for yourself, nor your baby.. xoxo
You aren't doing anything incorrectly. My five year old son had a blocked nose from the moment he was born and it took quite a while for him to build up a good immunity. It was like he had a constant cold for the first four years of his life!!! I was forever wiping his nose and going to the doctors. In the end, I just used the old common remedies and before I knew it, his nose was clear for the first time in his life!!! My nine year old is one of the fussiest children I know when it comes to food, and he is hardly EVER sick!!! He hasn't had salad in his entire life!!! Sometimes you just can't find an explanation for the way things are. Continue with your great parenting, and hopefully before you know it, you will be looking back on this time and your daughter will hardly ever be sick.
You aren't doing anything wrong!! As a suggestion....don't over sanitize things..germs are ok..in fact they help build the immune system. Ear infections are quite typical, kids have a shorter ear canal than adults do, and this makes it easy for things to get in their and bother their ears.
I would maybe take her to a natural pathic doctor and see if baby possibly has any allergies. Sometimes those can be indications.
It does sound though like you are taking marvelous care of your little one
What are you doing wrong???????? Nothing. Some kids are just that way. If anyone within 5km from me has a cold me and my son will get it. Apart from puting your little one in a buble there is nothing much you can do, apart from going to the doctors and heve her checked out I think she might benefit if her tonsils came out.
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