Anonymous wrote:This isn’t normal. Did any of you go to college? Do you remember being such multiple times in 4 yrs let alone multiple times per semester or within 3 weeks of move in? No one wants to hear it but we’ve done a number on kids (and adults) letting everyone catch Covid over and over - it def affects the body’s ability to then fight off other stuff.

It is normal. Close quarters, less sleep than normal, not always the best eating habits, kissing, etc. I did in fact always have a cold.

Yes, I have two and they both have cold viruses. Fortunately neither of them drinks so they're not risking secondary infections

I only know my kids are sick because they call me asking what meds they should buy.

But they know how to function and how to get themselves to student health or urgent care without needing to ask me.

The good news is that by the time your kid is a junior, you’ll hear about it after the fact- ‘oh, I had a cold last week, still stuffy but getting over it’ and it won’t seem as big a deal. As a mom, all you can do is pack those meds when they go off to school, encourage them to get rest and door dash chicken noodle soup.

OP, when they call, give importance: are they walking across campus? They are? They are functioning. Are they not? If they are resting, are they sitting up or lying down? Engaged in something or not. Or not calling you because they are sleeping an unusual amount.

My friend was a Nurse Practitioner at a university health center. She told me to remind my kids to hydrate when they have a fever and vomiting. Students would typically sleep all day when sick (roommate is at class), end up at the health center and would have to go to the ER for IV fluids. Make sure they have a thermometer (and know how to use it) and OTC meds to bring down the fever.

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t normal. Did any of you go to college? Do you remember being such multiple times in 4 yrs let alone multiple times per semester or within 3 weeks of move in? No one wants to hear it but we’ve done a number on kids (and adults) letting everyone catch Covid over and over - it def affects the body’s ability to then fight off other stuff.

Student health at my SLaC in the 90s had pre packed envelopes of penicillin and erythromycin. We are always sick. We lived in close quarters.

I had so many sore throats, they told me one more time and they’re suggest I get my tonsils out. Never happened, whew.

It was normal then. It’s normal now. Somehow, you’ve changed history in your brain.

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t normal. Did any of you go to college? Do you remember being such multiple times in 4 yrs let alone multiple times per semester or within 3 weeks of move in? No one wants to hear it but we’ve done a number on kids (and adults) letting everyone catch Covid over and over - it def affects the body’s ability to then fight off other stuff.

My kid has only had covid once and is a freshman in college. She was sick at move in (burning the candle at both ends right up until leaving) and now 6 weeks later is sick again. Is taking NyQuil for nighttime cough. Went and got covid and flu vax this week. Poor baby.

This isn’t normal. Did any of you go to college? Do you remember being such multiple times in 4 yrs let alone multiple times per semester or within 3 weeks of move in? No one wants to hear it but we’ve done a number on kids (and adults) letting everyone catch Covid over and over - it def affects the body’s ability to then fight off other stuff.