Mysterious Toddler Illness #72903578

[dmarley]

Well, Boo has survived yet another mysterious 6-hour toddler illness. She came home from preschool with a fever and a headache, threw up once, went to bed, and got up at 7:30 the next morning with, apparently, no ill effects at all. Well, she did have a headache, the cure for which was, according to her, a popsicle.

As always, I'm amazed at the resilience of the average pre-schooler. Her preschool is, at the moment, something of a plague house, featuring strep throat, viruses, rashes, and (somewhat scarily) a case of chicken pox. And yet, by now I feel that this is somewhat normal, that the natural state of The Toddler is to run amok among disease and end up with a mild fever and tummy-ache that's gone the next morning.

Comments

[tingler.livejournal.com]

Beeen there, done that, sister.

Eh, it's good for 'em. Builds up their resistance. My kids are almost never sick these days. Glad Boo's over this round, anyway.

[sanba38.livejournal.com]

Yet another of the reasons small children scare me when you get them in big groups.

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

That's more or less what I'm hoping. Today they added Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease to the Plague List. A couple more years of this, and she'll be healthiest child on the planet.

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

I understand that there's some research afoot suggesting that toddlers should be given flu shots *not* because of their own risk of catching it, but because they turn their own flu into a super-incubated mega-flu that they'll get over, but that's more likely to be fatal to the elderly people around them if they catch it.