It's so hard when they first start at kindly/daycare. They do seem to be constantly sick. I will tell you my story not to scare you but to perhaps advocate better for your daughter than I did for mine. My DD was 11 months when started at daycare and we had same issues seemingly constantly sick would barely get over one thing and then would catch the next. I was taking her to our GP at the time who kept telling me it was viral nothing we could do etc etc. I trusted this doc and didn't listen to my mama instincts. This went on for about 6 weeks during which time my daughter had her first febrile convulsion. Every time I went to GP she checked her ears and told me she could see nothing. I went back to GP and got told all the above things on a Tuesday. As we were about to leave I noticed the skin behind DDs left ear was very red and pointed it out to doc. She had a look and dismissed it as nothing. I went about day until my DH came home and pointed out DDs left ear was sticking out. So off to ER we went. DD was diagnosed with Mastoiditis (infection in the bone behind her ear) which was caused by an undiagnosed ear infection. She was in emergency surgery the next morning to clean all the gunk out, put a grommet in and check the mastoid bone was not damaged.

I felt terrible. The surgeon questioned me why I hadn't taken her to the GP. I explained everything to him and he was so surprised that a child that had been presenting with illnesses for that long had not been put on ABs just to see if there was an underlying infection festering away. He thinks my poor DD had an ear infection for almost that entire 6 week period.

Needless to say that GP is no longer our doctor. I think she was so hell bent on not handing out ABs willy nilly that she just lost sight of the overall picture.

If this same scenario was to present in one of my children again it would demand a trial of ABs. I know it is important to build up immunity and ABs don't work on viruses, but from my experience there can definitely be something more going on than can always be seen and one course of ABs is not going to ruin their own ability to fight of viruses.

I'm sure others will have a different view to me, but this is my view from our experience.

Good luck, I hope you get some answers. I still beat myself up for not standing up for my little girl and she is now 4.5 years old.

Janie xxx