my naive qu for the day

So im wondering, why do some kids get sick way more than others?

Dd is rarely sick and when she does get sick its normally just a runny nose. Shes had throwing up with an illness once and the only other time was a reaction to immunisation. Shes not had diahrea or anything.
I know kids who are sick every second week with diaharea, vomiting, rashes, flu and all sorts.

So how come? The parents houses are just as clean as mine, kids eat plenty of fruit n vege.

Ive been wondering the same thing. DD1's had a few ear infection when she was younger & has had croup really bad a couple of times, but not much has happened with either of my girls for a couple of years. DD1 has swimming lessons (yes in winter) & goes to kinder, & I take both kids grocery shopping with me. All apparently hot-spots for getting sick. Yet my friends kids seem to be sick all the time.

I'd love to know. Mine are the ones who are always sick. DD goes to school, they both come food shopping with me, DD is in swimming lessons and my house is always clean too (all of what white_with_two 1/2 said). They both eat fresh fruit and veges but yet are constantly sick. Every winter one of them ends up in hospital. We've already been there this winter. So I'll be watching this thread to see if there's any ideas why.

Dd1 never sick the twins different story!!! Ds finally gets his bloods next week they think there immunity is lower to other children they think birth weight and a rough start to life is the reason for ds. Dd2 is allergic to penacillin also.
I know another set of twins who are the same as mine they were low birth weight bubs as well so who knows but my kids eat a balanced diet, some times I worry that im a disenfectants best friend but on the other hand I let them play in the dirt and get dirty nothing a bath can't fix smile
A child's immunity also improves at 2 years of age so until then some kids will get more sick my doctor tried to explain it like that.

Depends entirely on how well the immune system is building up. My personal opinion that I've no evidence whatsoever is that diet plays a main part in it.
I was rather ocd about dd's diet when she first started on solids. I put in there spinach and all kinds of goodies and she gobbled them up. She hasn't been a fussy kid and eats what we eats, which is heaps of fresh fruit & veg. She's not too big on red meat but will eat it if its mince or in a casserol, or if it's chicken or fish. She has always been a good weight, good colour to her skin (in reference to iron intake), plenty of energy and I'm also conscious of low GI foods to give her proper fuel throughout the day.

Being tired and run down from lack of energy & poor diet will mean a childs immunity will suffer. Early to bed is a big one. DD has always been in bed no later than 8pm and is up at 7 on weekdays, 8.30ish on weekends. Bubs is in bed by 7pm.

My dd went to childcare once a week for 3 hours from when she was 5 months old. Everybody told me that she would get sick and get colds one on top of the other for an entire year because of childcare, and this never happened.

I'm hoping to do the same with ds. Fingers crossed that he is also not a fussy eater.

I also believe in starting solids no earlier than 6 months, but that's another debate. wink DD had tastes of solids from 6 months but didn't want it so she didn't properly start solids til 12 months, she was a boob juice fan only.

Oh and I also believe in being clean, but a big no no to being sterile. I havn't sterilised either kids bottles or dummies, just a rinse in hot water is enough. I let dd play in the dirt (ds isn't old enough yet but he will) and I don't make her wash her hands every five minutes, not even before meals if she's just been doing normal everyday kind of stuff. (If she has played with animals she has to wash her hands though).

It's important not to protect them from germs so their body can build up a defence against them. I wouldn't go as far as having a chicken pox party but. wink tongue

All kids have different natural immunity too... Like DS was early and the Drs think that is why his immune system is horrible - he's always sick n been hospitalized 5-6 times in his life for pneumonia and whopping cough etc plus once for the peanut allergy... N he's only 3!
DD is very healthy n rarely even gets a cold!! Lol n they both started solids the same time n had/have the same healthy diet.... She just had a naturally higher immunity from birth smile

I wonder too. My DS has been in childcare since he was 15 months old and hardly gets sick. He's had one gastro type thing, runny noses here and there and a few ear infections but never tonsillitis or chest infections or bronchitis or anything like that.

chalys 'n' J wrote:
Oh and I also believe in being clean, but a big no no to being sterile. I havn't sterilised either kids bottles or dummies, just a rinse in hot water is enough. I let dd play in the dirt (ds isn't old enough yet but he will) and I don't make her wash her hands every five minutes, not even before meals if she's just been doing normal everyday kind of stuff. (If she has played with animals she has to wash her hands though).

It's important not to protect them from germs so their body can build up a defence against them. I wouldn't go as far as having a chicken pox party but. wink tongue

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I'm the same with my kiddies! Never sterilized just do a hot water rinse after washing them. N they eat dirt n have had that many things I don't want in their mouths lol. They get to be kids like I was! The paed said to us that DS needs to be exposed to things even more than DD cos he needs to build immunity. Poor thing is constantly run down with something :/

I have no idea, i'm always thinking about this.
I'm a major clean freak my house is pretty much always clean, i'm not trying to talk myself up but you could eat off my floor it's that clean. DS is a boy and he loves to dig in the dirt and eat it ect..
My best friend on the other hand is disgusting. She goes weeks with out vacuuming or mopping her floor, she is always feeding her boys take out and crap. Her house is a bomb. Her kids are never sick.

keeki wrote:
I have no idea, i'm always thinking about this.
I'm a major clean freak my house is pretty much always clean, i'm not trying to talk myself up but you could eat off my floor it's that clean. DS is a boy and he loves to dig in the dirt and eat it ect..
My best friend on the other hand is disgusting. She goes weeks with out vacuuming or mopping her floor, she is always feeding her boys take out and crap. Her house is a bomb. Her kids are never sick.

My friends the same. She goes months without vacuuming or washing her floors. Don't want to be mean but it's a really dirty house. I hate going to the toilet there lol. Her kids are hardly sick either. But I could never live that way. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to cleaning my house lol.

Do you mean clean as in you get in and bleach/scrub everything every day? If so, there is your problem!

My house is tidy, and it always looks clean. I wipe down benches with a cloth & water, and if they actually look dirty I might use something to give them a good clean, usually an environmentally friendly spray. I vacuum about once a week, but the bathroom and the mopping is only done once a month when the cleaner comes.

There's a fine line between clean and clean iykwim! My house looks perfectly tidy and clean, but it's not germ free that's for sure.