Will be flying off tomorrow for a 5 days vacation trip. My most worry and fear is the kids fall ill anytime prior to the trip. I have been extremely careful with their diet for the past one week, in fact I even thought of quarantine JS at home from school for this week, but it’s not so practical.
Been given her supplements , make sure she doesnt take heaty food, watching her diet careful, make sure she’s warm and doesn’t catch cold, but on Wednesday, I spotted JS having slight flu. Yesterday was holiday, she stayed home, flu got worst. Brought her to doc last night and skipped her music concert. 
Asked for a stronger medicine and today got her to rest at home. But the flu seems to get worst. I’m really worried, coz each time after flu sure follow by cough and asthma. Just a sound of cough now sent me off the chair and put me on high alert.
I dont know why her immune system is so low despite given her all the supplements. It has been like that since WH’s hospitalization and JS insist of spending a few nights there with us and ever since then she became weak.
I hate to see her suffers. I don’t mind taking care of her if she falls sick during weekdays , away from in-laws spying eyes. But the worst is she tends to fall sick during weekends , or when we want to get away for a trip. My MIL and SIL always think that I’m not a good mother and doesn’t know how to take care of my kids. They blame me when my kids fall ills. Of course I don’t feel good and I blame JS for causing me being blamed. This is the part I hated most.
One more thing is I dont know if it’s “pantang”, each time we let JS knows in advance that we are travelling, she would fall sick a day or two prior to the trip. The last trip, she fells ill on the day itself, the next day, we spent whole day resting in hotel and seeing her suffer from asthma and visited the doc twice in a day for nebulizer. It’s really no fun at all.
I try not to tell her earlier about this trip, but somehow she saw daddy packing and enquires about it. Since she knew we are travelling, she fell sick straight away. Coincidence???
I hope she gets well tomorrow. I’m extremely worried now and hope she won’t get cough or asthma tomorrow. Putting my finger cross and I’m praying hard that WH won’t get the flu bug
April 27, 2007 at 10:49 am |
My Alycia is also like this. The chinese sinseh who ‘read her pulse’ said that she is ‘thai poa’ (too much nutrients in her body) coz i used to feed her Scotts Emulsion, multi-vit & Vit C everyday. On top of that, I also cook them nutritious soup and food everyday. Maybe their lil’ body cannot accept such ‘poa’ food. I also blame myself for being too clean and for giving them too much organic food. Well, our paed said their immune system (IS) is not fully developed yet and asked me not to blame myself. The IS will only be fully developed by age 4 or 5, depending on the individual child. Now, I only feed my gals their vitamins every other day and in a reduced amount. I am also trying out Manuka Honey. So far so good. I’m waiting to see if Alycia’s IS will be better when I send her bk to preschool in June 07.
it’s like that, once they go to school, the germs and sick bug is passing around like musical chair, it’s worst if it’s in air conditioned classroom.