Snotty Nosed Young'uns

[Don P]

Michelle did an adult class last weekend and got the garden started with the 4th graders on Monday. She had a cold till yesterday. About noon today, yup, the gift that keeps on giving. I had kind of forgotten how much fun it is, this is the first time I've been sick since this whole mess started. 

[doc henderson]

well, good to keep the immune system up to date!

[rusticretreater]

My kids brought home stuff I never experienced in the past.  They say what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger. I beg to differ.

[SwampDonkey]

I rarely get colds, sometimes years, or maybe just skip a year or two. But last summer I had a bad dose, that lingered on and on. Had to take time off work for 3 weeks. No strength at all. Plus my ears got blocked off. And I never had a runny nose, it was all post nasal stuff and not much for sinus pressure. Around here, first thing they do before anything else is blood pressure. Found out I had  high blood pressure. I had gone through a bunch of tests in 2018 including heart and blood pressure, all fine. Not over weight, eat right and exercise a lot more than the average citizen by far. Goes to show there is more at play than diet and exercise.

[thecfarm]

Only takes one to spread it around. 

[doc henderson]

When you are born you have your moms antibodies that pass through the placenta and they stick around for about 5 months.  from 5 months to 5 years, you get about 100 viral infections.  this builds your immune system so your own body can make antibodies and fight infections.  Our grandmas had it right.  let the kids play in the dirt, and if one is sick, have a get together.  At 100/5 years is 20 per year.  if each lasts a week that is 20 weeks or 5 months out of the year a child should be sick with a cold or flu virus.  There are several coronaviruses we have been familiar with for years before covid.  As a pediatrician, I have been exposed over and over, and to my knowledge, never got covid (a corona virus).  So, I believe to a point it makes us stronger.  falling out of an airplane, not so much.

[Jeff]

Typhoid Tammy brought it home to me this week.  Sick as Ive been since before covid.  The coughing and wretching has my back about locked up. 36 hrs in bed other than up to the toilet every 30 minutes.

[NewYankeeSawmill]

Jr. came home from school last week, tested positive for Flu B at the local clinic....
Knocked my ass down for a week. I had almost 72 hrs of the hershey squirts at the end, and my lungs are STILL on fire 3 days later. 10-days total, still out of whack. T'was a doozey!

[NewYankeeSawmill]

When you are born you have your moms antibodies that pass through the placenta and they stick around for about 5 months.  from 5 months to 5 years, you get about 100 viral infections.  this builds your immune system so your own body can make antibodies and fight infections.  Our grandmas had it right.  let the kids play in the dirt, and if one is sick, have a get together.  At 100/5 years is 20 per year.  if each lasts a week that is 20 weeks or 5 months out of the year a child should be sick with a cold or flu virus.  There are several coronaviruses we have been familiar with for years before covid.  As a pediatrician, I have been exposed over and over, and to my knowledge, never got covid (a corona virus).  So, I believe to a point it makes us stronger.  falling out of an airplane, not so much.

Very well said! (, I've been hesitant to mention the kung-flu)
You mentioned babies and mothers - something I learned when my wife was nursing ours - a mother's body can receive information through the breast and alter her milk in response to infections in the child. If that's not simply captivating, you may want to see if you still have a pulse... I was blown away by that. Upstream. Wow!

[Don P]

You guys are making me feel better already,
 Whoop, back soon 

[moosehunter]

Germ Bombs ie; school aged children. Got that term from my chiropractor.
mh

[Jeff]

Now tammy has conjunctivitis to go along with being sick, and still driving because there are no subs. There wereonly 38 kids on her bus yesterday

[doc henderson]

she got the walrus (as my Indian Micro professor referred to them in school).

[Old saw fixer]

We keep our 4 year old grandson 2-3 days a week, he goes to preschool 3 days a week.  Before preschool he was with us 5 days a week.  Mom teaches special ed in the high school.  Accordingly we catch anything new going around!

Anecdotally it seems that when I was smoking and drinking I hardly ever got sick!

[JD Guy]

When you are born you have your moms antibodies that pass through the placenta and they stick around for about 5 months.  from 5 months to 5 years, you get about 100 viral infections.  this builds your immune system so your own body can make antibodies and fight infections.  Our grandmas had it right.  let the kids play in the dirt, and if one is sick, have a get together.  At 100/5 years is 20 per year.  if each lasts a week that is 20 weeks or 5 months out of the year a child should be sick with a cold or flu virus.  There are several coronaviruses we have been familiar with for years before covid.  As a pediatrician, I have been exposed over and over, and to my knowledge, never got covid (a corona virus).  So, I believe to a point it makes us stronger.  falling out of an airplane, not so much.

[doctorb]

When my mom and dad used to come visit or babysit for us when we had school age kids, he referred to our house as "Virus Villa".

[Ianab]

Between Lil working as a Kindy teacher, and the 2 girls at different schools, if there is a virus circulating, we get exposed to it.

So minor colds are common in the household, but generally shrugged off in a day or 2. 

[Ianab]

As a pediatrician, I have been exposed over and over, and to my knowledge, never got covid (a corona virus).

Lil is the only one in our house that has actually tested positive for Covid, and it was so minor that if testing and isolating weren't mandatory (for her job) at the time, she would have gone to work. and just taken some tissues. The rest of us must have been exposed, but no symptoms.  In NZ you get a set amount of paid sick days per year by law, and can accrue them. Lil currently has 125 DAYS of sick leave she hasn't used, so her immune system is working pretty well considering (or because of) the Petri dish she works in. 

[SwampDonkey]

Up this way the only workers that can accumulate unused sick days is government employees. And other employers don't have to pay sick days although many do, but we do have sick benefits, which is not full pay, only 55% and you need a doctor to make out a form. I knew a customs and immigration officer that could retire 2 years early and got paid the sick days for those years since they were accumulated over many years.

[thecfarm]

Stepson has 4 kids between his wife and him. All grown up now. But when they were all in school, he would say, There is always at least one sick one in the house.