So I really love Michigan, except for one thing; since October, it's been like living in the Plague State. Our kids went their whole lives without needing antibiotics until we moved here; youngest has been on them twice, oldest once in the past six months. Every time I turn around somebody is sniffling, running a fever, or some damn thing. I feel like running up and down the yard yelling "Da plague! Da plague!"
We take vitamins and eat our vegetables. I keep Clorox wipes everywhere, and I use them. Hand gel is in the car and in the kitchen. I recently added spray Lysol to the arsenal to get germs hanging in the air. I think it's probably the fact that we're not used to having actual winters. With snow and subzero temperatures. If that's the cause, the spring weather should turn things around. It's in the 50s this week with rain, and that's just like the coast. So the plague will end, right? Right?
Come on, spring. I'm counting on you.
Did you know that spring and
Did you know that spring and summer are the time for chicken pox? *ggg*
Kids are vaccinated and I've
Kids are vaccinated and I've had 'em, so we'll escape that, at least. I think it may actually have been the dry winter air that did us in; the humidity is coming back and it makes a difference. Next year we'll have indoor plants and humidifiers when it gets all dry.
I heard a rumour that the
I heard a rumour that the overuse of things like anti-bacterial lotions, sprays and wipes can effect the natural growth of ones immune system. It's hard fro people, especially kids, to build a healthy immune system if they're never exposed to the things they need to brow immune to.. if that makes sense.
No links to support what I'm saying, I can;t remember where I heard it...and I have no kids...but this made me think of that. LOL
Well, I didn't go sterilizing
Well, I didn't go sterilizing crazy until after everybody started dropping like flies, so I'm pretty sure that's not the cause. *g* I think it's a case of different bugs we hadn't been exposed to before, and the differences in temperature and humidity.
Might not be the weather,
Might not be the weather, although that might have something to do with it. When I visit back there my hayfever runs amok due to all the plants out there that we just don't have out here on the west coast. Could just be allergies...which means they might go away in a couple of years as you get desensitized to the area.
Also, at least in the areas in Michigan I was in, the air just isn't as clean as it is here in the Pacific northwest...might be reaction to background industrial pollution.
Jester, I'm pretty sure
Jester, I'm pretty sure nowhere in the US has air as clean as the Olympic Peninsula. Sadly, school and career options are very limited there, and the infrastructure makes telecommuting problematic. The air here is pretty good, though. We're outside the industrial centers in farmland.
Didn't you homeschool last
Didn't you homeschool last year? That could be part of the problem, both kids are now in school and being around more other kids than before. But if they are allergies, local honey is supposed to help. Hope you all feel better.