Boosting your child’s immune system

Hi there
My child is in full time preschool (8-4:30 daily) as I have to work. For the past three months or so he has pretty much been sick the whole time. He has had 4 rounds of antibiotics to no avail. After about a week after the course finishes he is back with a thick green snotty nose and cough. He just cant seem to shake it. He eats tonnes of fruit and vegetables and healthy foods so its not like he has bad nutrition or anything but just keeps getting sick! I have tried everything! What do you do to keep your child's immunity up? and stop them getting sick? I feel so horrible for the poor boy!

Yoghurt, garlic and mushrooms are great for immunity.
It might be worth looking into a childrens supplement from the chemist as well maybe.

Also is he taking the same type of antibiotics each time? If he needs them again it might pay to try a different type as it could be possible that whatever bug he has got/keeps getting has become immune to them.

You have my sympathy - DS started daycare at the end of May and we went through the same thing. It is horrible. Touch wood I've found in the past month or so he is coping a lot better, and I think it is just time and getting used to it. In saying that, he has two infected ears at the mo but seems to be handling it better.

I've heard good things about colloidal silver (just might pay to check before giving it to young ones but we gave it to DS) and Clinicians also do an immunity boosting thing called pepicole which is a colostrum based product. We have used both on occassions but nothing religiously as for us I think it is just time...

from memory green phlegm/snot is usually bacterial, so trying a different and possibly longer course of antibiotics might work. it sounds like the current antibiotics are knocking the bacteria back but arent quite enough so when they are gone the bacteria multiply again.