Germs Are Everywhere
My son is sick again.
I can’t believe that my chubby little baby just seems to pick up one little virus after the other like he does. Perhaps it’s because he’s the youngest of 5 children?
I suppose, even though I clean and disinfect, our house is full of germs. Poor little guy. His immunity will be awesome once he develops some resisitence to all this, but until then. Whew.
My son just recovered from an upper respiratory infection a few days ago and now, he has some sort of tummy bug. All of the kids in the neighborhood have the tummy bug, and I’ve sighted many parents purchasing Pedialyte at the pharmacy when I went in the other day. I took note and bought some myself just in case. I bought some Tylenol too for him because my supplies were getting low.
Today, I was at the doctor with my other child, and I asked her about it all. Was there any sort of cleaning product I had somehow overlooked? The kids use hand sanitizer and I have disinfectant wipes. What was I doing wrong? Why is my young son always sick?
The answer she said is because he’s the youngest of a bunch of kids and is building up immunity to big kid germs. She told me that children who first go to daycare often get sick frequently until they build up immunity. I noticed this when my oldest went to kindergarten too–she was sick quite frequently until she built up immunity to “kindergarten kid germs”. The doctor assures me that, given time, my son will be healthy and immune to these different viruses.
I’ll keep on using the hand sanitizer and I’ll continue to clean and disinfect. I’ll try to not be so hard on myself when my son gets sick though. After all, germs are everywhere.
