A pediatric doctor explains why adults probably won’t catch these sicknesses, plus tips for making this sick season less hellish.
“A lot of times, if we do end up catching the flu or whatever bug [our kids] have, we are sick as dogs... we’re having a hard time getting out of bed. And we give them a dose of Tylenol, and they're literally running around the house,” says, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and mom of four kids.
Yet, as my husband and I also experienced, there were some sicknesses that just didn’t hit as hard as they did our daughter — or at all. Scary Mommy talked to Dr. Martin about some of the illnesses that parents actually aren’t likely to catch from their kids, why that is, and what you can do to make thisYou probably won’t catch these from your kids . But if you do, they’ll most likely be mild.seen in young kids.
, they are more likely to be affected by croup. It’s possible for parents to catch it and get a cold or a sore throat, but they generally do not get it in the same way that kids do.Bronchiolitis is a lung infection that's usually caused by the respiratory syncytial virus , according to the
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