Back to School Illnesses

Here we go again - Back to School time! Do you dread back to school time because your kids will be sick? All. The. Time.? It seems like when school starts, my kids were constantly sick. And when one kid gets sick, it would go through the whole family. Worse with asthma My kid's classmates would have snotty noses and be sneezing (never covering their sneezes.....) but that was about it for symptoms. Meanwhile, since all 3 of my kids have asthma, they would be sneezing, wheezing, and coughing. They would have to whip out their inhaler at school and take a couple of puffs. I would always have them or the school nurse call me if they needed their inhaler at school. I needed to track how often they were using it. I needed to know if they were getting worse, and if it was time to adjust their inhalers to a higher dose, or add another inhaler while they were sick. They would usually end up missing school. A LOT of school. They would e...