Why Do Kids Get Sick So Much?
My little one was sick about a week ago.
Now she’s sick again.
Standard cold symptoms really, nothing dramatic. Just your average sniffle-cough-combo that somehow manages to absolutely ravage the entire household.
She’s mildly under the weather, meanwhile, me and my wife? We’re finished, absolutely deceased, communicating in grunts and making it a competition to see who can tell the other they feel the most dreadful.
Which is what led me to the question in this post. Although, if I’m being honest, it sounded less like:
“Why does my child always make us sick?”
And more like:
“I’ve never known a child to get ill this often, this is a joke. I’m not taking her to nursary, soft play, child minders anymore, bloody cesspit. (I was annoyed)
Before becoming a parent, people always say it:
“You’ll get ill all the time when they start nursery.”
“You won’t stop catching bugs.”
“Children are germ spreaders.”
At the time, I nodded politely, smiled and thought, How bad can it be?
I was a fool.
Nursery, soft play, play centres — they’re not fun environments, they’re networking events for viruses. A place where tiny immune systems shake hands with other tiny immune systems and bring them home for the whole family to enjoy. The cat will be next I swear…
And the most offensive part?
She recovers in about 36 minutes, back to full energy., running laps and demanding snacks.
While we’re lying under a blanket questioning whether breathing is worth the effort. As Del once said “The doctor said I'‘d survive but he didn’t recommend it”v (I sincerely hope you got that reference)
If you came here looking for medical advice or scientific explanations about why children get sick so often, I’m sorry to disappoint you, my biology degree can only explain so much.
I am not here to explain immune system development.
Today, I am here to complain.
This post serves no medical purpose whatsoever. It is simply a public record of two grown adults being taken down by someone who still needs help putting socks on.
That’s it.
