How do we get home??

Glad you got back ok, I’ve had food poisoning on holiday and there’s no way I could have left the bedroom. My DH also had it on holiday after eating kidney beans in a chilli, he never left the hotel room for 3 days, we were only there for a week.

@ohnoohnowhattodo oh no, so sorry to hear you have emetophobia too, I would have been hysterical. But I would have done like you and stayed put, the only thing worse than my fear of vomiting is my fear of vomiting in public so I absolutely wouldn't have travelled when feeling like this!

I hope this is all behind you now and you still had a lovely holiday beforehand!

Glad you're back safe and feeling better. What a nightmare.

I got the terrible runs from a dodgy hollandaise sauce on salmon the night before flying home from Cuba - with a changeover in Madrid. It was awful. I was dosed up to the eyeballs on Imodium, as white as a sheet, and terrified of having an accident. Thank good I didn't. Had a salmonella test when I got back and had to stay at my parents house for several days after to recuperate. I lost so much weight. Happy backpacking days!

You just have to go for it.

Apart from exploring the insurance ideas, the pharmacy maybe able to help. I felt deathly sick in France recently and got anti-nausea medication over the counter, it really worked.
I was sick on a plane once and vowed to have my own bigger sick bags and a change of clothing in future, wet wipes as well. Although cabin crew were pretty efficient and used charcoal for any vomit smell. Embarrassing though.

Meh - I’m not very germ conscious but planes (along with hospitals, GP surgeries and supermarket toilets) are hot beds for these kind of bugs, precisely because a lot of people who have one will still travel. I try not to touch anything then touch my mouth when travelling on one (and carry alcohol gel which i never do otherwise), didn’t realise other people don’t do the same!

Also have a family member who is medically vulnerable and travelled long distance with noro, because they had to. Majority of people wouldn’t miss a holiday or travelling home because of it unless physically impossible.

Travel insurance?????????

I have no sympathy with anyone who travels, does not pay for travel insurance, and then expects everyone else to cough up if there's a problem.

For those saying travel insurance will cover it - many times they don't. There are loopholes after loopholes and they don't pay up, or they pay something pathetic like 25 sounds a day and then the OP is out of pocket!
While I wouldn't be boasting at the gate about a potential SF case, if the kid is physically well enough to get on the plane, I'm afraid I see why they took it. Better for him to be in his own home and bed, with access to familiar health care facilities if needed rather than navigate a foreign system.

I am interested to hear what food you think caused it?

I am glad that you are home now.

Last summer, I was sat next to a sick child, on a plane. The parents were sat together across the aisle.

I caught the pathogen from them, ended up with a week of vomiting, and then lactose intolerance for 3 months. I cursed the parents many times, over that time.

As an aside, yes, scarlet fever is becoming wide spread again, a high fever that doesn't come down, off their food, and then eventually the rash/strawberry tongue. I've had two friends whose children have had it, and they've had no clue what it was, just carried on as usual.

Lastly, the most recent COVID strains (FLiRT), predicted to have a large summer wave, cause diarrhoea/vomiting, loss of smell, flu-like aches and then a fever/cough, so may present initially as food poisoning.

Not that I think you've had these, but I feel it is good to have the info out there.

I'm glad you got home ok.

Last week I felt very sick on a flight home from London (I live in Dublin), but I was fine until the short flight was well under way. I really hope I didn't make someone else sick, but it hit me very suddenly, so I had no reason not to get on the plane.

I hope you get well soon.

Read the updates - OP is home already and they're feeling better

Doctors note then travel insurance claim

I'm so sorry to hear about the bad end to your holiday OP. I'm glad you are all home now safe and sound. Thank you for thinking of others and not flying.
For all the posters saying it's just a sickness bug and to fly anyway I just wanted to point out that for some people a sickness bug could be life threatening. My daughter is a type one diabetic and a sickness bug would land her in hospital in a potentially life threatening situation. She also has autism and it's incredibly difficult to keep her glucose levels stable at the best of times. She was only diagnosed in January so I was ignorant to things like this beforehand. The 48 hour rule is there for a reason.

Contact your insurance- you will probably be fine in a couple of days and probably be covered for extra accommodation and plane tickets. Morally none of you should travel and those actively throwing up probably won't be allowed to board the plane even if the others can. Your insurance should be able to pay for the extra nights and new plane fares if needed. If the hotel you are still in has space they will probably allow you to stay as they will need to disinfect your rooms anyway. If not, they can probably advise on alternative accommodation. Get well soon!

Had this twice... In Cyprus I was soooo ill I could barely get up the plane steps, but plonked in a seat and just got home.

Then in Northern Ireland I had diarrhoea at the airport and I just sat on the toilet until last call at the gates!!!

It's rotten luck, could you hire a car and get back that way?

I could have guessed you were at center parcs. Only time our entire family fell violently ill, all at the same time (as well as the two other households we were with).

I have emetophobia so absolutely avoid center parcs like the plague now :).

None of us usually get stomach bugs, and haven't since (it was a decade ago) so it must have been a pretty bad one!

Also to say I admire you dealing with all this and still remaining calm and sane. I certainly would not have done this well!!

You did the right thing OP. I'm glad you're home and feeling better.

I once flew back from Turkey. I felt a bit queasy before the flight but thought it was just down to the heat and tiredness. About an hour into the flight I started to be sick - really properly sick to the extent they moved me out of the main cabin and sat me in the cabin crew area with a bucket. I was shaking and had stomach cramps as well.

When we landed no one was allowed to get off the plane until I'd been seen by paramedics who thankfully didn't hospitalise me though they did consider taking me to hospital for tests in case I'd caught something nasty and contagious but in the end decided against it. They did however kindly have me ushered through security and passport control pretty quickly and I was even allowed to keep hold of the bucket - luckily!! I don't usually queue jump - I've never been so glad to collapse into an airport toilet cubicle. I then booked into an airport hotel overnight rather than risk a 3 hour train journey

Never worked out what was wrong but I promise you planes and stomach bugs do not mix well. It was also extremely embarrassing and quite understandably no one wanted to sit near me I didn't want to sit near me

Surprised at the number of people who expected travel insurance to help. They’re not a concierge service and although some do have that service as an additional extra (mine utilises Int SOS) it’s not common so they’re really only there to pick up the bill once you’ve sorted everything yourself.

OP glad you’re back and ok. It’s miserable being sick on hols

Glad to hear you are home. Hope you can rest and recover

Good handwashing in the tiny plane sink?

That's if you even make it to the toilet past the queue, which you probably won't especially not if a child. Then you've got any spray from the vomit (which isn't visible and happens everytime you vomit) again in the tiny toilet. Probably reaching the door which people will then touch. You don't even know its norovirus!

It's completely unethical to board a plane while vomiting. Not to mention thoroughly unpleasant for everyone involved.