Anonymous
01/09/2026 17:09
Subject: Re:For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Nein! Das ist verboten!Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.
- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).
- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.
- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.
- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)
- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.
- No pets and no smoking household.
- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.
- Change clothes once you come home.
- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.
- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.
- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.
- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.
- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.
+1 We do this too! Except we have pets. Might help with preventing allergies who knows? We alos spend a lot of times outdoors digging in the dirt and have a bunch of indoor plants
Anonymous
01/09/2026 16:33
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
I wouldn't say we never get sick but washing hands frequently and keeping hands out of mouths, plenty of rest / good bedtimes, and masking in especially crowded situations like planes have made a big difference.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 16:27
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What do you do differently?
My younger daycare kid eats healthier than you older one does and gets way less sick but wondering if its a coincidence
Nothing I have one who always got sick and one who never did. It just happens.
Same - one kid always got sick and the other didn't. I did nothing different.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 16:22
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Also saline in a nebulizer at the first sight of a runny nose or sniffle.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 16:21
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Vaccines
Wash hands when coming home and before eating
Immunity vitamins with elderberry and zinc
Wash hands when coming home and before eating
Immunity vitamins with elderberry and zinc
Anonymous
01/09/2026 15:56
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
They build up their children's immune systems through diet, moderate age appropriate pbysical activity, and -- tis is key-- **moderate** exposure to germs over the years. Over exposing them to petri dish environments has the opposite effect.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 14:09
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Unlike the PP who does a lot, we do very little (except the lots of fresh produce and yogurt and washing hands). My kids get regular very mild colds - nothing that really bothers them. Between being fully vaccinated and the practice their immune systems get on very minor colds, they rarely get actually sick.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 14:03
Subject: Re:For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.
- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).
- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.
- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.
- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)
- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.
- No pets and no smoking household.
- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.
- Change clothes once you come home.
- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.
- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.
- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.
- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.
- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.
+1 We do this too! Except we have pets. Might help with preventing allergies who knows? We alos spend a lot of times outdoors digging in the dirt and have a bunch of indoor plants
Anonymous
01/09/2026 14:02
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Nothing. I wish I had an answer for you but I think it just comes down to luck and genetics. We are not perfectly clean eaters. DS certainly isn't the cleanest kid in the world. We don't have the cleanest house. We have pets.
He started daycare at 2 and got the stomach bug once. He didn't get another stomach bug until he was 12, and he got it from me. Other than that, it's been colds. He's had confirmed Covid once and was asymptomatic.
DH and I hardly ever get sick aside from the random cold , and I'm an RN at a hospital so am exposed to germs constantly. I've had the stomach bug twice in the past 20 years, once when DS had it when he was 2 and once when I gave it to him when he was 12. DH only got it the first time.
So yeah, for us it's just luck and genetics.
He started daycare at 2 and got the stomach bug once. He didn't get another stomach bug until he was 12, and he got it from me. Other than that, it's been colds. He's had confirmed Covid once and was asymptomatic.
DH and I hardly ever get sick aside from the random cold , and I'm an RN at a hospital so am exposed to germs constantly. I've had the stomach bug twice in the past 20 years, once when DS had it when he was 2 and once when I gave it to him when he was 12. DH only got it the first time.
So yeah, for us it's just luck and genetics.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 14:01
Subject: Re:For those of you whose young kids never get sick
- No daycare.
- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).
- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.
- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.
- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)
- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.
- No pets and no smoking household.
- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.
- Change clothes once you come home.
- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.
- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.
- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.
- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.
- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.
- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).
- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.
- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.
- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)
- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.
- No pets and no smoking household.
- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.
- Change clothes once you come home.
- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.
- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.
- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.
- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.
- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 13:59
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
My oldest never gets sick, and he's the pickiest eater. Neither does my dad. I've always assumed my oldest got my dad's lucky genes when it comes to this.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 13:56
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Anonymous wrote:What do you do differently?
My younger daycare kid eats healthier than you older one does and gets way less sick but wondering if its a coincidence
Nothing I have one who always got sick and one who never did. It just happens.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 13:54
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
I think sometimes younger kids have better immune systems because they are exposed to germs much earlier by their older siblings. I also think some kids just get more sick than others…
Anonymous
01/09/2026 13:52
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
Anonymous wrote:What do you do differently?
My younger daycare kid eats healthier than you older one does and gets way less sick but wondering if its a coincidence
There is no way to get a real answer on this - I'd chalk it up mostly to luck/coincidence.
Anonymous
01/09/2026 13:50
Subject: For those of you whose young kids never get sick
What do you do differently?
My younger daycare kid eats healthier than you older one does and gets way less sick but wondering if its a coincidence
My younger daycare kid eats healthier than you older one does and gets way less sick but wondering if its a coincidence