Children = Petri Dish of Terror

[yvr girl]

My niece is adorable but like all children, a carrier of disease. I was fine on Saturday. Sunday, I visited with my brother's family. Now I'm sick. Coincidence? I think not.

[Iris]

1. oh, yeah.

One time I went to see my brother's kids. A couple of days later I had an earache and then I talk to him on the phone and he's talking about the baby having an ear infection - I was like "no shit"

[procrastinator]

2. Take at least 250 mg

of vitamin C every day....

I work in a children's hospital, and hardly ever get sick.

[yvr girl]

3. I've been eating the stuff like candy

[xpunkisneatx]

5. Thats prob because

Your immune system is incredibly well equipped to combat childhood diseases since i am sure you have been exposed to many. Vitamin C does nothing.

[SheilaT]

4. I dunno. My husband used to blame

our oldest son when he (husband) would come down with stuff, whether or not the kid had gotten sick. Oddly enough, I never got sick, so I think it's just a matter of the individual immune system.

And do you never catch anything from an adult? Just checking.

[yvr girl]

7. I think you tend to get closer to children

My niece was putting pretend make-up on me. I've also been leveled by my friends children.

I'm not around sick people very much. I did get sick from a friend once. We went to a movie together and shared a popcorn.

[Taverner]

6. HAHAHAHAAH

I have children and love that description :)

[yardwork]

8. I'm a mom and I love that name for kids!

Petri Dish of Terror. LOL!

When the kids were babies we would warn off family from visiting by saying, "Don't come to Plague House!"

[Dem Agog]

9. I avoid Parenting Coworkers like the plague in the winter...

They're carriers of the science experiments and phlegm being passed around at public schools.

I'm nice to them and all, but you know no body contact if at all possible. Last time I was in close proximity to my little neices I ended up puking for 36 hours straight.

I am not looking forward to Thanksgiving.

[PassingFair]

10. My nine year old would like to make a guest post here

Ladies and Germs, my kid,

hereby known on DU as BenjiFan:

"children are not disease carriers! Chimps like DuByA r disease carrieers!!!!!!

:dunce:
P.S. I would rather eat dirt than meet DuByA.....Durrrrrrr
:puke:

[faithnotgreed]

12. hi benjifan! you must be older than 9 because you are soooo smart!

much smarter than some grownups (though i wont mention any names). hey - make sure to wash your hands plenty too, and not just after eating dirt!

[PassingFair]

33. Benjifan's back!

Hey dudes its me, benjifan

i dont eat dirt, but i do eat salami heated in the microwave. ITS LIKE A GREASE CRATER!!!!!!!!!

:crazy:

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. You eat a lot of things that MrsGrumpy finds nasty....like

Sponge Bob Blue macaroni and cheese.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. So what are we gonna do about it baby girl?

Kick him out!!!

Love you,

MrsHarpy

[yellowdogintexas]

11. Day care centers and elementary schools are disease pits

And just think what it was like before we had all these great vaccines and immunizations we now have?

Our daughter brought home every little rhinovirus known to man and gleefully gave them to her father. For the first 6 years of her life, he was sick just as much as she was. I on the other hand seldom caught her bugs.

As the oldest child in the household, I considered it my sworn duty to infect my sister with any and every thing that went around. So we had
chickenpox together, mumps together, measles together (both kinds), various strep throats, colds, stomach/intestinal viri, etc.

Our much younger sister escaped all that except chickenpox, thanks to vaccines.

[fortyfeetunder]

13. ZICAM is my anti-child medicine

No Zicam is not birth control, it's a homeopathic cold preventative medicine. Zinc-based. Good stuff.

[LibLabUK]

18. Hmm..

"it's a homeopathic cold preventative medicine."

So it does nothing then...

"Zinc-based."

The water used to make it was once in the same room as some zinc, so it's magically zinc-based?

[Susang]

25. I prefer all my magic to be "zinc-based"

Though correct me if I'm wrong (and I often am), but I don't believe that Zicam is homeopathic.

[Phillycat]

27. It's not. It actually works.

I use it at the first sign of a cold and it really does shorten the duration and intensity. I don't know how, but I know that it's not just in my head.

[Susang]

30. But it is just in your head

The cold, I mean. :crazy:

[Phillycat]

31. Hee! Sometimes it's in my chest, too!

So there! ;-)

[LibLabUK]

28. Hmm...

I just did a search on it, and I can't seem to get an answer one way or the other. But, apparently it causes anosmia and dysosmia.

But you're right, zinc-based magic is superior to all other forms of magic, except depleted-uranium-based magic... which is the best because it goes all the way to 11.

[Susang]

29. I checked their website, and they do call it homeopathic

But I think they're incorrect in their usage of the word, as it contains large amounts of zinc, rather than diluting it until there is no trace of zinc to be found. Hardly homeopathic.

[LibLabUK]

32. Ahh...

They can't even get the junk science right.

[fortyfeetunder]

34. Those side effects don't seem so bad

1) don't have to worry about smelling funky people
2) can tolerate eating mother in law's nasty cooking.

Now that's a tradeoff I can live with.

[REP]

14. School-Age Children Are the #1 Resevoir of Antibiotic-Restitant URIs

That's Upper Respiratory Infections; most school-age children (86%) are also strep carriers. Younger children are covered with e. coli (and so are their parents, from carrying them).

[LibLabUK]

22. Hmm... E. coli

E. coli is harmless, as long as you don't get it in the wrong place (e.g. the blood, the brain etc) and you don't get a pathogenic subtype (e.g. O157).

What's your source for your initial claim about antibiotic resistant URIs?

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. Yes, the terraists are stockpiling weapons-grade children

That they will unleash upon a major city. :eyes:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. I like cities. New York is my favorite

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. I've never been to New York

Is that the place with the big green lady?

[LibLabUK]

21. Yes..

The big green French lady.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Thats right she's french.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. Thats the one. She likes people

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

20. Try being a teacher.

After 3 years you are immune to almost everything known to science.

[MissB]

26. I have occaisonally referred to mine as

my favorite disease vectors.