Toddler with squits: driving London > Argyll at 6am

[PaulHollywoodsSexGut]

Please can someone help? My DD has had loose poops for 24h now but is starting to complain her tummy hurts and is sleeping fitfully.

This is the same tummy bug DH & I have had but I need to know what I can try to ease her misery between now and the chemist opening (and when it does what to get.

Help! Infant gaviscon has done nowt x

All that way to travel, are OP and her H realistically going to keep a soiled travel potty (or three) in their car and not use the loos or change DC nappies in the service station? Doubt it.

Their choice yes, but a selfish one, both with respect to their own DC and other people.

So you and your husband had to be within a metre of the toilet, but it's okay to make your toddler sit in a car/her own mess so you can go on holiday?

You're self-catering so just leave a day or so later. Please don't make a small child sit in the car for hours with a stomach upset.

The only sensible, and safe for everyone, option is to stay at home!

All that way to travel, are OP and her H realistically going to keep a soiled travel potty (or three) in their car and not use the loos or change DC nappies in the service station?

I would hope not. Travel potties usually come with bags with linings don't they, that you can just throw away. Wipes, hand gel etc.

I'm just saying that if they are going to do it, now is the best age. When they can still use nappies/potties and do a change outside or in the boot of the car. They could do it without going near anyone. Whether they would is a completely different question.

You'll ruin other people's holidays, first weeks of school etc when you go to the toilets/ changing areas with her when she's clearly infected. You really need to stay home until after it's cleared up. It's really irresponsible to knowingly pass it on because you want your holiday.

and just in case you're all thinking I'm an awful person, my list comes from experience of a travel sick child. Not because I carted a d & v-ing child around

OP doesn’t give a shit if her kid infects anyone else especially the vulnerable. The only thing they care about is their little holiday.

My son nearly died from a tummy bug a few years ago. All of his veins collapsed and they nearly had to drill into his bone to put a line in. It was so severe they thought he had meningitis, but it was "simply" rotavirus. I hope you and your DD doesn't cause that uncertainty and hell for another family.

But @SilentHeadphones travel sickness is different in that you're not infectious if you get car sick, you just feel miserable.