"Why is my kid ALWAYS sick and when do I need to be concerned?"
The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom
Dr. Mona Amin
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Monday Mornings with Dr. Mona where we are talking about why your kid is |
| 0:05.7 | getting sick all the time and when you should be concerned. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Monday Mornings with Dr. Mona. |
| 0:19.6 | Remember you are able to call in your questions to 954-526-2641 and leave a message and I may |
| 0:27.9 | answer it on a future episode but for this week's episode I'm going over a question that I have |
| 0:33.3 | gotten asked over and over on my Instagram account Pete Stocktalk from followers. Why is my |
| 0:38.8 | kid sick all the time? Is it just my kid? What is going on? When do I need to be concerned? |
| 0:44.1 | So we're going to go over all of that today. Now the truth is children get colds and viruses |
| 0:50.8 | after they turn six months of age when the immunity they receive from mom starts to fade |
| 0:55.1 | and they have to build up their own immune system. That's not to say that a baby under six |
| 0:59.2 | months of age cannot get sick. It's just that they do have some protection from mom not enough to |
| 1:04.3 | you know throw them into a virus pit and then they won't ever get an illness but you will start |
| 1:08.7 | to see more illnesses after six months. Not only because of their immune system that now has to |
| 1:14.2 | build on their own but also because their hands are in their mouth more. So a baby at two months |
| 1:19.6 | is not putting their hands in their mouth as much. They have mom's immune system, mom's immunity that |
| 1:24.8 | has helped them. But now they are six months. They have to build their own immune system and their |
| 1:30.4 | hands are constantly in their mouth. So germs on surfaces, germs on shared toys, germs everywhere |
| 1:37.3 | exist and it can come into our system by the mouth, by touching mucous membranes, our eyes, |
| 1:44.3 | our nose, our lips, our mouth, our tongue. All of that can transmit viruses, especially respiratory |
| 1:50.5 | viruses. You know, if you read literature or a lot of articles, they'll say like numbers wise, |
| 1:55.9 | right? That baby's toddlers and preschoolers can get about seven to eight colds a year, |
| 2:00.1 | school age kids can get five to six colds a year and then teenagers about four colds a year. |
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