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Minikatsu had a cough/cold/running nose from October till March last year, poor boy. But poor us too, because everything he got we got too, only worse. Last week he had a cold with horrible blocked nose etc and just as he's got over it, he now has a phlegmy chesty cough.


*sigh* Is this it? Coughs/colds/aches etc until it's spring again?


Colleagues have told me that it gradually gets better as kids get better at fighting off the bugs, but basically it's going to be like this till he's 5 or 6. Aaargghhh. Please someone tell me it's not true....

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read somewhere once that 75% of all colds in the world are had by the under 5's - going by that you'll have a few more years yet - sorry!


On the plus side, he'll have built up lots of antibodies to fight against bugs.


I remember always being snuffly when I was a child and rarely get colds/never get taken that ill with them now.

Cannot believe the amount of snot in my life! Horrible at the best of times but particularly awful when it is the really thick, yellow stuff which my two seem very prone to. How can such small beings produce such massive amounts...and HUGE bogies with it?!! I seem to be continually wiping noses, and now understand a good friends comment that a true Mummy always has a tissue tucked into her bra!


My 6 year old is a bit better these days, but still seems to get quite a lot of colds I'm sorry to say. Things did improve for a while but then starting school brings a whole new bug fest, and believe me, colds will seem a breeze once you start to discover the joys of nits, impetigo, threadworm, roundworm and the like - each time you get a "there has been an outbreak of XXX in your child's class" letter coming home with them you break out in a cold sweat. Thankfully we haven't actually had all of those things, but just finding out about them is bad enough. Ah the glorious ignorance of pre parenthood.


At least Buggie will be well informed I guess! Is that a good or bad thing though? Hmmm

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