How do we get home??

Have you taken a vomit sample then?

Norovirus kills many people every year in the UK. As does e coli, salmonella etc which you can catch from an infected person. You aren't being clever

By giving her calpol you are upsetting the already upset stomach plus you are bringing the temperature, that is her body making to kill the bug, down.

Hope you are all ok and at home by now.

Of course its not. Thats why you are getting insured, for unexpected events like this.

I would struggle to sit through a flight and use those horrible little toilets with a bug. But I can see why you're desperate to get home. Hope you all got back ok!

I would try and avoid getting on a plane if I was actively being sick (and the check in staff might not let me anyway) but sometimes you do just have to power on through, sorry. I think we've all become a little too risk-averse since Covid. If people never boarded a plane for fear of 'shedding virus' that would rule out millions of trips a year. And where do you draw the line? Are colds ok but noro bad?

Look, we all know where to get hold of masks and how to wear them now, I do think that suggesting a family stay away from their home until there's 0% chance of passing a bug on is unrealistic for most people.

Hope you are safely home now and recovering.

I have to agree. You need your own home and beds.

Get a grip! This is a nasty, short-lived stomach bug. It's not the Bubonic Plague!!

If they are throwing up when boarding I doubt they'd be allowed to board the plane. Virgin went way up in my estimation when they wouldn't let the sick child and his mother fly.

While infecting a plane load of others.

Bloody selfish, arsehole behaviour.

There is a really severe vomiting bug that has been leaving people bedridden - it's incredibly catching and leaves people wiped out for a week or more after.

To get on a plane while shedding virus is so deeply selfish.

Don’t congratulate me too much I would have gotten enough antiemetics from the doctor to dose the family and blamed the youngest on motion sickness. Long car ride to the airport and all that.

Last time we went to Florida a kid was throwing up when he'd boarded the plane. His Mum tried to say it was because he was tired but thankfully they were told they couldn't fly and had to get off. It was a pain waiting for their luggage to be retrieved but rather that than have some sick kid vomiting everywhere.

I’m so sorry. This happened to us in Paris, many years ago. DH woke up and projectile vomited. We were flying at 3. Hotel was very unhelpful and tried to say it was due to wine (it was norovirus). I went to a pharmacy and explained the situational and they called us a doctor. Doctor walked me to a cash machine before he would even look at DH. He gave him an injection to stop the vomiting. No idea how we did it but we got to the airport and got home. I came down with it the next day.

Neither of us had any experience of norovirus before this, and we had no idea it was so contagious, obviously looking back I feel very guilty and hopefully we didn’t infect the whole plane.

Imodium, sick bags and crack on. You’ll get through it. Good luck!

@ohnoohnowhattodo I hope you are now safely at home or at least on your way and everyone has recovered. Such a shame to have the holiday end like this

Oh no - I guess at least it happened at the end and not just before you left. I guess getting a doctor's note is not easy for DV bug because they won't really want you in a hospital and it will pass quite quickly. Hope DD feels better soon and you can all get home.

Oh love going to go against the grain here and say if you can do the flight do it.
Bloody nightmare being stranded in a foreign country especially with a sick little one.
We had a similar issue with ds who vomited once the night before the flight and had a temp, he didn't sick the next day but wasn't very hungry so we dosed him up with calpol and didn't feed him during the flight and luckily we were ok.
I would say if they are throwing up every 5 min then obviously don't do it, but if it's been a while or quite sporadic then I would risk it, medicate and just be vigilant with the sick bags.

‘just a stomach bug’ may be e-Coli/salmonella/listeria, norovirus or any manner of communicable bacterial of viral illnesses - any of which mean that you will not be permitted to fly as they can be fatal for the young and elderly.

That it is the whole group indicates that there may need to be an investigation at local level - you need to contact your travel agent and insurance people as you will likely have to remain there for several days. There should also be a doctor at the hotel/resort if you’ve used one.

My niece and her friend got food poisoning last year that started just as they were boarding the plane, there flight home was horrific one was worse than the other and the air stewards had her lying on the floor at the back of the plane. They also wanted to get paramedics to meet the plane they were that bad. Definitely staying put is the best option and claim on your insurance.

I echo the PP who recommended using Google Lens to translate the medication packaging. I'm just back from Japan and it was an absolute lifesaver; I used it so often I ended up adding it to my phone's shortcuts.

Download the Google app and go to the translate feature, which opens your camera. Hold it over the text as if you're taking a photo and it will show you the English translation.

I had a similar situation in Portugal last year but it was food poisoning.
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and they issued me with a prescription for an anti emetic which instantly stopped the vomiting. I took a load of Imodium too and managed to get home.
They sent the prescription to the nearest pharmacy immediately and dh went and got it.

My friend got back from Paris last week. She was there for a week and spent a day at Disney. Herself and her partner were vomiting as soon as they got back then discovered they had covid

Not sure why you though the situation was flippant enough to warrant a "lol" because you could have made many other people sick if it had been norovirus. Even if it wasn't contagious, nobody around you could have known.

It's like someone saying "I had covid and couldn't stop coughing the entire way through a flight, it was awful for me lol haha don't do the same thing".

Paracetamol suppositories are more effective for a child who is vomiting regularly. I think they are often used in France so any pharmacy will have them available.

I hope you managed to get home, do you have hospital discharge notes to send to insurance company to claim on insurance for extra flights and hostel costs.

Any good, experienced doctors here to advise, guide and comfort? Some doctors here would have faced similar situations with their young families.