Advice on work

[Pink2000]

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[twinkly29]

I had to give up teaching after 12 years after developing brittle asthma. Not related to teaching but was adult onset and couldn't reliably stay at work. I rarely got things the children had but if other staff were full of cold and spluttering about the staff room I always did 🙄. If you're considering part time, what about Monday Wednesday Friday so you have days off between to rest? I honestly don't know the answer though. I had to stop because I couldn't do it. It's not improved since (which kind of proves to me the lovely small people weren't causing my problems) but at least I'm not stressed trying to be at work and going back too soon etc.

[Pink2000 in reply to twinkly29]

Thank you so much for replying back, I will be thinking about it as I’m the same with going back too quickly and feeling guilty when I am off sick. X

[Chip_y2kuk]

I used to get recurring chest infections sometimes mine would be months between and sometime weeks (literally)

I had a really good asthma nurse that said to me that could just be one of them things (inhaled steroids weaken the immune response from the lungs making you more susceptible anyway) she also said it's also possible that your asthma management is a little off and needs tweaking slightly because the infections can be caused by mucus which is caused by inflammation which is caused by asthma.... turns out the smart asthma nurse was right she added montelukast to my growing list of stuff and the chest infections stopped (I now get one every now and again instead of 6+ per year)

[Elizabethk]

It broke my heart to leave my nursery job so I completely sympathise with you. I presume that you’re submitting sputum samples as that’s the best way to target the bug that’s making you ill-that’s how my medics found that I had no immunity to a particular bug that kept making me ill.

Unfortunately the best thing that I did for my health was leave the nursery. There are plenty of other care jobs where you don’t have to expose yourself to the vast amounts of infection that go with nurseries. Good luck. E x