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People that live with Cfer's-What you do when you're sick
- Thread starter anonymous
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i know this is coming from someone who has cf but at the moment my dad has a stinking cold and i refuse to be in the same room when he is around!! OTT you might think but i really do everything i can to keep away. I wash my hands constantly if i have knowingly touched something he has just touched. how sad is this but he went to pour salt on his meal this evening, i asked him to pour some on mine because i didnt want to touch it not knowing what germs are on his hands!! I run 10 miles when he sneezes around me too!...is this really sad of me or do other ppl do this stuff...Oh and its not just family friends too... if a mate at college has a cold i wont sit near them at all!
The key is prevention! My husband (CF) has his own bathroom, we wash & sanitize all the time, and if I'm sick (even if I think I'm getting sick), he sleeps in the extra room. If my kid is sick, they just stay away from each other as much as possible. It's just a natural routine now.
I have an 11 year old son w/cf and a 8 year old w/out cf. It seems like whenever the little one gets sick it is only a matter of time before the older one gets it, no matter how hard we try to prevent it. We were having a really good winter until 2 weeks ago when the younger one caught a bad virus. We sent him to my moms for a few days and that seemed to do the trick. There is always this state of panic in our homes when someone gets sick, I wish I had the answer to that one!
Getting sick stinks! Whenever I'm sick - I send Jeremy downstairs to sleep on the futon. Plus - no kissing, etc. We also try to do lots of extra handwashing. Hopefully he's not going to get whatever nasty virus I have now - I have had the worst sore throat for days - I can't even imagine doing the coughing he does during his treatments with it. Ow. Unfortunately- there's only so much you can do.
Magerly111
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This doesn't completely relate...but me and my sister both have CF, and I am one of 6 kids (4 of them w/o CF). Anytime one of them was sick, I eventually caught it, and so did my sister, but in my case, nothing really serious ever came out of it. To me, it's all dependent upon how good your immune system is. I never really tried anything to prevent from getting sick except the obvious-no kissing, drinking from the same glass, etc. Personally I never really worried about getting sick, and my mom didn't much either. And that might be because me and my sister have a milder form of CF.
Also, in my own opinion, not being exposed to germs is what makes us all sick these days. Do you realize how many kids have allergies these days? We are all just so germ-free and bacteria-free conscious that we're not exposed to any of them anymore. I personally feel that is a major cause for everyone's prone-ness (can I make that word up?) to getting sick.
Also, in my own opinion, not being exposed to germs is what makes us all sick these days. Do you realize how many kids have allergies these days? We are all just so germ-free and bacteria-free conscious that we're not exposed to any of them anymore. I personally feel that is a major cause for everyone's prone-ness (can I make that word up?) to getting sick.
When one of us is sick, we wear a surgical mask if we're around Jordan (you can buy masks from some medical supply companies). And whether we're sick or not, we always wash our hands after we sneeze or cough.
Sometimes if there are a lot of kids coming to school sick during peak flu season, Jordan himself will wear a mask to class. This serves both to protect him to some extent from the nastier bugs going around and to remind his classmates that they should let him know if they're sick. Most are pretty good about it once they understand the situation.
Bambi, mom of Jordan (16, w cf)
Sometimes if there are a lot of kids coming to school sick during peak flu season, Jordan himself will wear a mask to class. This serves both to protect him to some extent from the nastier bugs going around and to remind his classmates that they should let him know if they're sick. Most are pretty good about it once they understand the situation.
Bambi, mom of Jordan (16, w cf)