most recent 30 from http://moms4mom.com 2010-09-10T20:21:04Z http://moms4mom.com/feeds/tag/illness%2bhealth http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://moms4mom.com/questions/5308/are-ear-tubes-a-good-idea Anne 2010-06-10T12:13:06Z 2010-06-17T19:11:06Z

<p>My 1-year old gets a double ear infection every time he gets a cold. Our primary recommended an ear nose and throat specialist who will probably recommend tubes. I've heard conflicting things about them. Are they worth it?</p>

http://moms4mom.com/questions/1961/do-you-find-you-get-sick-more-after-having-a-child-even-dads pete the pagan-gerbil 2009-11-02T14:44:02Z 2010-02-08T07:14:28Z

<p>Our son is nearly 11 months old and has picked up a few bugs in that time, and also passed them on to us. But I've always been able to shrug things off in a day or two without serious hassle, at a bad time maybe taking a weekend to recover. This year, however, I've been sick much more often and it's taken much more out of me than usual.</p> <p>One GP told me that young babies were perfect disease vectors, they pick up and spread everything (last week, the little man was wiping his nose on me and this week I have the flu!), and also that having a small child means that you don't get as much sleep (or at least, as much unbroken sleep) as you used to and that can reduce your immune system's efficiency. So add the two together, and you get sick a lot more.</p> <p>Is this something other people find, and at what age does your child stop infecting you?</p>

http://moms4mom.com/questions/2613/intentionally-infect-your-child Dinah 2009-11-17T16:18:12Z 2009-11-18T17:49:50Z

<p>I'm curious as to who here has intentionally infected their child with something for the sake of immunity -- especially chicken pox or flu. How common is this? Did you wait until a certain age? Do you think it's a good idea at all?</p> <p>(Some of the responses to <a href="http://moms4mom.com/questions/44/what-to-do-at-a-chicken-pox-party" rel="nofollow">this question</a> touch on this a bit, but since that thread is supposed to be something different, I'd like to address it here.)</p>