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are kiddie colds as frequent in oz!!!!!!!!!.............. ;) it might be only me but i am so fed up with my girls having colds, i have three girls and i am forever wiping noses!! :( i have a real thing about it, you can guarantee when i pick the two youngest up from nursery i wipe both their noses within seconds of seeing them, and beacuse nobody has been wiping it regularly it is caked!! :D pardon anyone that may have just eaten or about too........... i am really interested to know if they are as common in australia - what with the nicer more constant temperatures.

amanda

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God knows about kids but me (27) had the flu (full on puking etc etc) at least 3 times a year and pretty much a constant cold in the UK winter (I also had the flu jab yearly), I have now been here 7.5 months and have not had the flu at all (no flu jab) and have had 3 1 day colds.

For me the move has been very good for my health, however I know others on this site would disagree.

I live in Geraldton which is 4-5 hrs north of Perth on the west coast, maybe location makes a difference

Kala

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Hi

Been here 6 months, eldest caught a cold from a newly arrived Brit, lasted 2 days, other than that not a thing and with 3 children that's pretty good going. Touch wood!!!!

Lindsey

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We seem to have been hit big time with colds and flu, but I am hoping it is because it is our first full winter here and we will build up some resistance by next year.

Certainly at the moment one of us always seems to have a cold/flu!!!

Nanci

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I am so sick of always having a cold. I went back to work in September last year after 6 months maternity leave, and since then I have had a constant cold. The aircon in the office is so crap, anything going, I seem to be getting it. I havent slept in almost 3 days because of a constant cough every time I lay down.

Harry started nursery at the same time, and I am always wiping his nose.

I spent a year in Oz on a whv, and 6 months in NZ, and didnt even get at much as a sniffle.

Claire
xx

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We've been here a year nearly (God, I've survived!) me, hubby and two little ones of 5 & 2. Not so much as a real sniffle......until three weeks ago!

I developed pneumonia :scared: and both the kids are full of coughs and colds...thankfully not pneumonia.

We haven't had so many bugs as we would've had in the UK...but they're bloody bigger bugs over here if you ask me!! ;) :D

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Same bugs, kids in classrooms, childcare still pick up the same germs, tummy troubles in summer and colds and coughs in winter. Biggest prob in summer is pool partys why dont people keep the chlorine etc up when they know 20 kids are coming over?, really common for a dose of gastro after a pool party :eek:

One thing I thought was better here was hospitals, superbugs, until last night! they took swabs in hospitals and 75% of the swabs came back infected with superbug bacteria :scared: drink machines, lift buttons, phones and medicine trolleys scored highest, good article they showed in Holland superbugs are virtually non existant simply because hand washing is enforced.

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We have been here in Melbourne for 7 weeks now and have never been healthier.
We have two girls and neither of them or us have even had a sniffle yet, must be all the clean air around here.

Julie.

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We've been here for 16 months now and I have had 2 colds in that time. One was particulalry nasty for me (pneumonia) and the other was very mild but lingered a week or so.
Kids have been sick once and not even bad enough to stay home from school.
We definately get sick less here, so far. *knock on wood*


Siren

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Hi...we've been here nearly 7 months now and son aged 6 has had nothing yet. My 2 1/2 yr old daughter had a cold and a cough about 6 weeks ago...got rid of it and then got something similar about 3 weeks later! She started at daycare 1 day a week in Feb and I think it's just one of those things that littlies get at that age. On the whole, I think we have been heathier since our arrival, but who knows what we would have got back in the UK if we'd stayed...

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We've been here 3 months now.

20 month old caught a cold at Nursery which he promptly gave to his week old brother :rolleyes:

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THANKS GUYS, not so many colds i think........... something else to look forward too!! :D
roll on, thats what i say - and im still collecting paperwork!!!!!! :o

amanda