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Is this too unpleasant to do even in the circumstances?!

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Greeanj · 05/09/2025 15:02

We have to catch a flight this evening and our bedding is not in a good state after a night and day of sickness bug. I have no time to now wash it. Is it too awful to leave it on and wash when we return? It’s cheap bedding and I’m now wondering if we throw it out rather than leave it?!

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FascinateSlashVacinity · 13/09/2025 09:53

How can you be conscious of needing to wash it and potentially throwing it away but not conscious of spreading it to the whole plane? It's so conflicting to have one thought but not the other unless you really are just a selfish person.

I am currently in an isolation side room in hospital because I caught a sickness bug and have a compromised immune system due to on going health issues. I've been here a week with no date to be realised in the near future.

I am missing out on contact with my family, time I can never get back.

Please don't get on that flight. Stay in doors untill everyone is 48hrs clear. What is a small inconvenience to you can literally be life or death to someone else.

Blondeshavemorefun · 07/09/2025 17:42

As others. Should you be flying and spreading a sickness bug ? 🤮🤮🤮

options

leave the sheets they go crusty

wash the sheets and leave in machine and might go mouldy

or rewash once home

or a quick 15m wash to get rid of worst and hang over chairs /doors and wash properly when back

tho this is 2 days old so @Greeanj may not come back

vickylou78 · 07/09/2025 12:39

If you haven't actually puked on the sheets I personally would just strip it all off and put in bags in laundry room/utility/bathroom and take out of bags and wash when you return.

TheLastOfTheMohicans · 07/09/2025 09:53

In the time it took to write the message you could have stripped the bed, but you shouldn't be flying if ill but you know that don't you

dcthatsme · 06/09/2025 22:29

Strip the bed and leave it in a bag to wash hot on your return

Zov · 06/09/2025 21:13

Idontjetwashthefucker · 05/09/2025 15:30

Rage bait?

OP has not posted since the first post. So yep!

Zov · 06/09/2025 21:11

Oh and yes, why on earth are you dragging your D & V bug onto a plane?

Zov · 06/09/2025 21:10

Bonkers. Just run it through a 20 minute quick wash! Confused

Clarabell77 · 06/09/2025 20:22

OldFred · 05/09/2025 15:38

I wish the government would check in with MN for every decision to be made 😆

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That’s a great idea!

Lovehascomeandgone · 06/09/2025 20:18

It doesn’t take long to change a bed if you just get on with it. I would get the dirty linen off and make the bed before you go. I would either chuck the dirty stuff or put it on a wash and dry and deal with it when you get back.

Jorge14 · 06/09/2025 19:34

By the time you had written and read all of these posts you could’ve washed, dried and ironed the bedding 😆 poor passengers who will prob catch the bug now, can’t you fly a day later

DBSFstupid · 06/09/2025 19:04

ARichtGoodDram · 05/09/2025 15:03

Should you really be getting on a plane if you've got a sickness bug?
You'll smite everyone else on there

👏👏👏

FurForksSake · 06/09/2025 18:06

FeetLikeFlippers · 06/09/2025 17:54

The acid in vomit can corrode silver. That’s why all my sick bowls are made of gold or platinum. 😉

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Ha! I save the platinum for the potty 😆

FeetLikeFlippers · 06/09/2025 17:54

FurForksSake · 05/09/2025 15:10

We have silver round washing up bowls under kids beds. They are used for nothing else.

The acid in vomit can corrode silver. That’s why all my sick bowls are made of gold or platinum. 😉

ParmaVioletTea · 06/09/2025 10:56

Interesting the @Greeanj has not come back ...

limescale · 06/09/2025 10:33

FiveShelties · 05/09/2025 23:09

You cannot be serious OP.

The stuff posted on here sometimes is just ridiculous. You would think some of it is made up.

🤔🤔🤔

Rosscameasdoody · 06/09/2025 10:32

GoldPoster · 05/09/2025 20:09

Does travel insurance payout for cancelling a holiday due to a minor illness unverified by a GP? I don’t think some people live in the real world. Of course their going to catch the plane!

This.

FiveShelties · 05/09/2025 23:09

You cannot be serious OP.

The stuff posted on here sometimes is just ridiculous. You would think some of it is made up.

EasySqueezy · 05/09/2025 23:09

Jesus. I would not want to be on that plane with your family.

justasking111 · 05/09/2025 23:05

WhySoManySocks · 05/09/2025 22:38

Ooh, ooh, can I try m please? Tonight it’s vomit on the sheets and wee in the supermarket car park. I’ll go try to spot a “poo in an unsuitable place” post and then I’ll have the full bingo card of hit and run threads!!

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OH by late tomorrow night you'll have a full card 🙄😂

Booboobagins · 05/09/2025 22:46

Bin it. It will develop ita own legs by the time you get back and your place will reek.

WhySoManySocks · 05/09/2025 22:38

justasking111 · 05/09/2025 22:02

Sigh.... It's Friday, the weekend, Spot the posters who make one wind up post and vanish.

Ooh, ooh, can I try m please? Tonight it’s vomit on the sheets and wee in the supermarket car park. I’ll go try to spot a “poo in an unsuitable place” post and then I’ll have the full bingo card of hit and run threads!!

justasking111 · 05/09/2025 22:13

Funnywonder · 05/09/2025 22:10

Yep. There have been a few dump and runs today.

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You have a keen nose for bull 💩 then. 😂

Emma6cat · 05/09/2025 22:11

bin it right away.

Hope you have been clear of V&D for 48 hours before getting on a plane full of people

Funnywonder · 05/09/2025 22:10

justasking111 · 05/09/2025 22:02

Sigh.... It's Friday, the weekend, Spot the posters who make one wind up post and vanish.

Yep. There have been a few dump and runs today.