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No kids eh? My oldest starting preschool was one of the worst times in my life. We were sick from august to december, then january to may. Dreadful. It got be

No kids eh? My oldest starting preschool was one of the worst times in my life. We were sick from august to december, then january to may. Dreadful. It got better. My youngest is 3 now and is ahead of where my oldest was due to having 2 older siblings importing illnesses for several years, and this year we finally were mostly not sick all school year. Which is to say, we were probably closer to the 15 days "materially sick" mark. I say materially sick to mean, definitely sick, though perhaps not taken out of school (due to not technically being outside of the health exclusion policy, and sometimes I only realize they were "materially" sick after they got home instead of just "passably sick given kids will basically have a lingering cough from august to may).

mixmastamyk 3mo ago
This happened to us too, until I heard the podcast about Vitamin D. Nipped that in the bud almost immediately.
- leptons 3mo ago
  I heard about vitamin D during covid, and that and hand sanitizer are the only 2 things we still do. I haven't been sick for a few years. Before covid (and vitamin D supplements), it was at least 25 days sick every year, if not more.
- eloox 3mo ago
  What's that? Any particular dosage?
  - mixmastamyk 3mo ago
    Security now, but there’s more recent info today. Today I take 5k D3, K2 Mk7, and a multivitamin several times a week, not every day. More in winter. Result: not been sick more than a day or two for fifteen years. And rarely, once or twice a winter. One exception, during covid I had it and it lasted five full days at medium intensity, then went away permanently. This is not a “placebo effect” at all, was like turning on a light switch, immediate results. During the winter I heard about it, I’d been sick for almost three weeks straight, couldn’t shake it. Naysayers look silly in my opinion, or are perhaps an exception I mentioned above.
- jdkoeck 3mo ago
  This is Linus Pauling all over again.
  - morbicer 3mo ago
    I don't care what was "disproven" or if it's a placebo. I raised vitamin D intake in winter, I take betaglucans and if I feel like I am starting to get under the weather I take 2-3g of vitamin C per day. Since we started that, no colds or flus for me or my wife and we have a kindergarten kid.
- internet_points 3mo ago
  Yeah I took vitamin D all through my kids' nursery years, every morning, had strong belief in it. I still was sick all the time. That combination of not enough sleep (kids crying in the night etc.), work stress and insane amount of viruses from nursery is killer.
  - mixmastamyk 3mo ago
    Not enough info, maybe bad brand or dosage. Maybe you have other immune issues. Not well known but there are people who simply can not absorb D thru the gut. A high school friend is one. Shouldn’t discourage the 90%+ who can benefit because of exceptions.
    - internet_points 3mo ago
      Alternatively, I might have been even more sick if I didn't take vitamin D!
ptsneves 3mo ago
For me personally, I never was so sick in my life as when my children were between starting nursery school and 3. It was not just respiratory diseases: It was also the time in my life I and my wife had frequent digestive infections. Ohh my...How many times I could not move for 2 days. It felt like I was 80 years old, mixed with the hardest symptoms of food poisoning. I got sick so often it limited a lot my general life: I stopped practicing sports regularly and started being very careful with sleep(sleep deprivation likely increased the chance of infection), because I knew if I did not lead a perfectly balanced lifestyle I would get sick. I am quite upset I stopped running 15km per week, even with snow. I never fully went back to it, due to fear of getting sick, and having to take care of toddlers while being feverish or nauseated. In those years I think I was not disease free more than 3 months at a time. In a year where many people decide to not have children, it does not help the cause of having children seeing other parents suffer so much, in those early years. I have non parent friends that get sick after meeting us, resenting meeting us and asking if we are sick, because they spent all the night in the bathroom or with fever. Fortunately it feels we are already immune because we are not sick very often anymore.
- helpfulmandrill 3mo ago
  > I never fully went back to it, due to fear of getting sick Does running long distance increase the chance of getting sick?
  - ptsneves 3mo ago
    Running requires resting for me, and I often do not have time to rest longer with the kids. Meals still need to be prepared, and kids need to be minded. Kids have a strict time to go to kinder garten so I still need to get up at 7.00 or 7.30AM. I don't have grandparents around, just me and my wife. So if I am exhausted of a run and cannot rest or sleep, it is almost sure I get sick soon after. Just my experience.
veunes 3mo ago
Kids don't just get sick, they seem to turn the whole house into a slow-motion relay race of viruses

mixmastamyk 3mo ago

This happened to us too, until I heard the podcast about Vitamin D. Nipped that in the bud almost immediately.

leptons 3mo ago
I heard about vitamin D during covid, and that and hand sanitizer are the only 2 things we still do. I haven't been sick for a few years. Before covid (and vitamin D supplements), it was at least 25 days sick every year, if not more.
eloox 3mo ago
What's that? Any particular dosage?
- mixmastamyk 3mo ago
  Security now, but there’s more recent info today. Today I take 5k D3, K2 Mk7, and a multivitamin several times a week, not every day. More in winter. Result: not been sick more than a day or two for fifteen years. And rarely, once or twice a winter. One exception, during covid I had it and it lasted five full days at medium intensity, then went away permanently. This is not a “placebo effect” at all, was like turning on a light switch, immediate results. During the winter I heard about it, I’d been sick for almost three weeks straight, couldn’t shake it. Naysayers look silly in my opinion, or are perhaps an exception I mentioned above.
jdkoeck 3mo ago
This is Linus Pauling all over again.
- morbicer 3mo ago
  I don't care what was "disproven" or if it's a placebo. I raised vitamin D intake in winter, I take betaglucans and if I feel like I am starting to get under the weather I take 2-3g of vitamin C per day. Since we started that, no colds or flus for me or my wife and we have a kindergarten kid.
internet_points 3mo ago
Yeah I took vitamin D all through my kids' nursery years, every morning, had strong belief in it. I still was sick all the time. That combination of not enough sleep (kids crying in the night etc.), work stress and insane amount of viruses from nursery is killer.
- mixmastamyk 3mo ago
  Not enough info, maybe bad brand or dosage. Maybe you have other immune issues. Not well known but there are people who simply can not absorb D thru the gut. A high school friend is one. Shouldn’t discourage the 90%+ who can benefit because of exceptions.
  - internet_points 3mo ago
    Alternatively, I might have been even more sick if I didn't take vitamin D!

ptsneves 3mo ago

For me personally, I never was so sick in my life as when my children were between starting nursery school and 3. It was not just respiratory diseases: It was also the time in my life I and my wife had frequent digestive infections. Ohh my...How many times I could not move for 2 days. It felt like I was 80 years old, mixed with the hardest symptoms of food poisoning. I got sick so often it limited a lot my general life: I stopped practicing sports regularly and started being very careful with sleep(sleep deprivation likely increased the chance of infection), because I knew if I did not lead a perfectly balanced lifestyle I would get sick. I am quite upset I stopped running 15km per week, even with snow. I never fully went back to it, due to fear of getting sick, and having to take care of toddlers while being feverish or nauseated. In those years I think I was not disease free more than 3 months at a time. In a year where many people decide to not have children, it does not help the cause of having children seeing other parents suffer so much, in those early years. I have non parent friends that get sick after meeting us, resenting meeting us and asking if we are sick, because they spent all the night in the bathroom or with fever. Fortunately it feels we are already immune because we are not sick very often anymore.

helpfulmandrill 3mo ago
> I never fully went back to it, due to fear of getting sick Does running long distance increase the chance of getting sick?
- ptsneves 3mo ago
  Running requires resting for me, and I often do not have time to rest longer with the kids. Meals still need to be prepared, and kids need to be minded. Kids have a strict time to go to kinder garten so I still need to get up at 7.00 or 7.30AM. I don't have grandparents around, just me and my wife. So if I am exhausted of a run and cannot rest or sleep, it is almost sure I get sick soon after. Just my experience.

veunes 3mo ago

Kids don't just get sick, they seem to turn the whole house into a slow-motion relay race of viruses