Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

At our home, we have one school-going girl, one home-schooled boy and a 17-month-old baby girl.

None goes to childcare centres.

And so just like all other homes where there’s at least one school-going child in the family : germs, bacteria and viruses tend to be ‘brought home’ by the school-going one, and passed on to the younger siblings.

*Dislike*

I know I know. It’s one of those things that can’t be avoided, BUT … what gets to me is that out of the three kids, our littlest one usually is the worst hit.

ie. What starts out as mild coughs (or a cold) most likely develops into bronchiolitis – “Swelling and mucus buildup in the smallest air passages in the lungs (bronchioles), usually due to a viral infection.”

And this time round, her coughs are the worst kind.

She’d cough a phlegmy cough (like it’s stuck in her throat and she can’t clear the phlegm out), and sneeze, and cough and sneeze again.

All in one go.

Sometimes it lasts for 4 seconds, without a chance of her breathing in between.

Sometimes it’s a marathon cough, again and again for a good 2 minutes or so, with her catching some breath in between.

And, sometimes she ends up vomiting a little (which in a way is a good thing because it means she rids some of her sticky phlegms)

It’s been more than a week, and with her losing almost all of her appetite, I’m simply hoping and praying for the bugs to completely go away.

Real soon.

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Anyway.

Here’re some useful write-ups I came across recently:

> Caring for Toddler’s Coughs – WhatToExpect.com

> Bronchiolitis – babycentre.co.uk

> Walking Pneumonia – Webmd.com

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Have a good and healthy weekend, everyone!