Rg Rat Fever Infections galore

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Think about how schools gather and mix germs, bacterial and viral. Students come in and share the same air. They go home and share all those germs with family. Then they bring back everything the families have. Kids are an incredible vector for illness, but you've gotta love them!I worked in College Health for many years. We could count on major illness outbreaks about two weeks after students arrived, and especially after breaks, when all those students got on airplanes, where they shared air with dozens of people from all over the world, going home and then returning. You could almost put a clock to all the shared viruses finally getting a huge number of students ill. First year teachers conned the phrase "Rugrats" long before the comics. They saw the slimy noses on Kindergartners, could see the

kids snuffling, coughing and spreading germs in every way imaginable. College students only changed the ways they shared germs, on doors going from class to class, in dining halls, etc.Bottom line as I see it: You have to find what works for you. If you have toughed out the first awful year, perhaps your body is making lots of resistance and next year could be fine.Or not...Finally, didn't your doctor keep track of your blood counts while you were getting the medications? Seems like that would have caught some of these problems while they were smaller.Keep as healthy as you can, whatever it takes, changing jobs, changing meds, changing how you take care of yourself.h