I HAVE GUARDIANSHIP OVER MY GRANDDAUGHTERS. THEY AND I HAVE HAD THIS CRUD FOR APPROXIMATELY 1 MONTH NOW AND I HAVE GONE TO THE DOCTOR. HE TELLS ME TO GET A HUMIDIFIER, I DID. AND TELLS ME I CAN'T GIVE THE KIDS ANY COUGH MEDS DUE TO THEIR AGE. SO THE POOR DEARS ARE COUGHING THEIR LITTLE HEADS OFF, RUNNY NOSE, SNEEZING, LOW GRADE FEVER,ETC. ANY HELP OR ADVISE IS APPRECIATED AS I HACE NO INSURANCE. JOB LOST DUE TO GOVERNMENT CUTBACKS. A ROOM MOTHER AT MY GRANDDAUGHTERS SCHOOL HAD FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AND PASSED OUT, THEN WENT INTO A COMA AND NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. SHE PASSED AWAY DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. SHE ONLY HAD THE SYMPTOMS FOR A FEW DAYS. I AM NOW QUITE CONCERNED FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN AND MYSELF. PLEASE HELP!
Your grandchildren have had this crud longer than the teacher and haven't fallen into comas, so what the teacher had was probably something else. Assuming the children have plain, ordinary crud --
I was born long enough ago to remember that in the 1940s and 1950s there weren't any antibiotics and sick people recovered by staying home in bed and taking care of themselves.
My sister and I were required to stay in bed when we were sick for all the time we had any fever at all and then one day longer. Our meals were brought to us in bed, and there was no sweet stuff and no milk or cheese (sugar and milk make the mucous worse). We were encouraged to drink as much fruit juice (not soda pop, not kool aid, etc) as we wanted.
When I have the crud now I do the same thing, except no one brings me my meals in bed. Over the years I have learned to make chicken soup for myself (put a chicken in a crock pot, cover with water, add a carrot, an onion and a stick of celery and cook at least twelve hours) and to drink chamomile tea and peppermint tea. The chicken broth is good as is, but sometimes I simmer a handful of garlic cloves and a handful of dried sage leaves in a quart of the broth.
Today's children are not as obedient as we were, they are harder to keep in bed and harder to keep from eating junk food. Maybe you can at least keep them quiet. You have your work cut out for you.