I used to not get sick very much. Aside from every year, I would get bronchitis reallllllly bad and end up in the ER for it. I haven't had that for a couple years thankfully,,,,and have been pretty healthy.
Until I started doing daycare...
Now everytime any of the kids I watch have so much as a runny nose, I end up sick. And not just runny nose sick....use an entire jumbo box of tissues, sneeze/blow my nose almost once a minute, can barely move, throat so sore I can't talk or swallow juice, ridiculous headache and my face feels like I have about 400 lbs of pressure on it.
The one little boy I watch had a runny nose Monday but nothing major. I didn't have him again until Thursday when he had a runny nose, and some chest congestion. I started feeling sick Thursday morning before he arrived, so I must have gotten it earlier in the week?? IDK! It just sucks.
And standard daycare procedures with ill children is that if they do not have a fever, and can play and do the typical routine without seeming run down, too sick to play or super heavy congestion that affects breathing, they can stay. He wasn't sick enough for his mom to take the day off work, and she isn't sick, but now I am and so is DH.
If you are one of those people that can be around sick people and stay well, do you have any tips? Are there things I can eat/drink/take that can help so I am not getting these colds/coughs all the time?
Until I started doing daycare...
Now everytime any of the kids I watch have so much as a runny nose, I end up sick. And not just runny nose sick....use an entire jumbo box of tissues, sneeze/blow my nose almost once a minute, can barely move, throat so sore I can't talk or swallow juice, ridiculous headache and my face feels like I have about 400 lbs of pressure on it.
The one little boy I watch had a runny nose Monday but nothing major. I didn't have him again until Thursday when he had a runny nose, and some chest congestion. I started feeling sick Thursday morning before he arrived, so I must have gotten it earlier in the week?? IDK! It just sucks.
And standard daycare procedures with ill children is that if they do not have a fever, and can play and do the typical routine without seeming run down, too sick to play or super heavy congestion that affects breathing, they can stay. He wasn't sick enough for his mom to take the day off work, and she isn't sick, but now I am and so is DH.
If you are one of those people that can be around sick people and stay well, do you have any tips? Are there things I can eat/drink/take that can help so I am not getting these colds/coughs all the time?