How do you keep from getting sick???

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Let me just begin by saying hello to everyone on the boards. I have been reading the boards forever and I love the site. Seeing the post where someone asked how many of us had kids got me thinking. I was wondering how any of keep from getting sick. My little one is two and seems to drag home everything he gets from daycare. He gets sick, I take care of him and always end up getting it too. I'm in my last semester of preq.'s before I apply to nursing school and I need to know if anyone else has this problem. I love people. And I want to be a nurse. I'm just wondering if there is anything else extra I can do to keep myself more healthy. Do you just build up an immunity after a while? Any response would be helpful.:confused:

Wow, Mario. That was beautifully put! :p

I also believe that a lot of it is mind over matter. Once I started tellling myself I just don't get sick, I either didn't get sick or barely suffered from what I did catch. I start clinicals this fall, though, so I'll get to really put that to the test!!! lol!

I do happen to follow Mario's advice, too.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.

When I remotely feel anything coming on I try to get extra sleep, I drink OJ or the SOBE drinks with the vitamins and herbs for fighting colds and flu, I drink plenty of water and I take supplement drops. I take vitamins on a regular basis. And when my kids are sick (ages 14, 13 and 11) I taught them to wash their hands well, wipe down the counter in the bathroom and then spray with a disinfectant spray and to dispose of the washcloth and towel they used into the washer. So far (knock wood) I haven't gotten anything major.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Long Term Care.

I agree with most all of the suggestions. When I was in nursing school and the first year of working as an RN-- when stress for me was at its highest-- what kept me from getting sick was: prayer (leaning on and drawing close to God), tears (crying out the stress), sweat (exercising out the stress), laughter, adequate sleep, vitamins, and eating as nutritiously as I could. The love and support of a great husband and a few good friends also went a long way to keeping me sane and relatively healthy.

When I feel a cold coming on, they seem to go away or be "light" if I get them, when I immediately increase my fluid intake and sleep as much as possible. By keeping up with exercise and listening to my body and emotions (I feel "cries" building up from stress and sadness at work or just from life circumstances, and have a good cry from time to time-- very cleansing and healing), I've been blessed by remaining fairly healthy.

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I'm a poor example... I'm so sick right now :o

Going to bed with some OJ, Motrin, and vitamins...

Heather

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From your nursing training,A&PI,II; Critical thinking and common sense...Diet,exercise,cleanliness.

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