Acute gastroenteritis - dare I eat anything ? *title amended as per OP's request*

[Kedgeree]

DH and I are pinned down with norovirus. It's almost 12 hours since I last vomited, do you think I could dare eat something or am I risking starting it up again? I was thinking just a bit of kefir yogurt.

I find pom bears a good starter food after D&V.

I had a horrid d+v bug last week - which oddly started with an acute sore throat?! DM had exactly the same.

The first thing I ate was a bacon roll after 18 hours clear of vom- think I was craving the salt. Tbh though that was a week ago and I’m still not really that interested in food - a unique experience for me

I always wait until stomach rumbles, then start with a digestive and move on from there. Slowly. And drink boiled cooled water.
'Always' applies to the thankfully very rare times I've been struck down.
Hope you feel better soon, OP.

Thanks all. I've eaten a couple of rice cakes and had hot water with ginger. Still got joint and muscle pains.
I'm really cross that I've got this because a teacher didn't obey the 48 hour rule, took her sick child into school where she was sick. Net result she infected many of her class, one of whom is a cousin of my baby dgs, who infected his parents and grandparents (me and DH). Eight people in our family alone down with it.

I do hope you feel better soon. That’s so selfish. I can’t believe a teacher thought that was OK. Poor kid and poor everyone they infected. I’m immunosuppressed and live in fear that something like that could put me in hospital.

@Wolfiefan that's exactly what I said to DH, that someone immunosupressed could have had a life threatening outcome. Apparently the teacher has apologised, having been told that dozens of people are ill as a result of her poor judgment. One of the parents has taken it further and complained to the school - rightly so IMO. Teachers are well aware of the 48 hr rule and that it applies to them as much as to their pupils.

@kedegree I had similar at my DDs primary school a few weeks ago. Child had been vomiting all night, Mum a teacher elsewhere, child was sick whilst sat right next to my DD. School couldn’t reach her mother

Cue that night DD projectile vomiting all over my bed, (she was in with me and as she had tummy ache), it went down the wall, all over my slatted blinds which had to be binned (cheap ones that LL left here which I now have to replace). I had to paint the wall due to the amount of scrubbing it took to get the sick off. Elder DD then caught it.

Meaning I had to have a week a off Uni and I had 2 exams that week so had to fill in forms and hope they accept it; can’t possible get a sitter for two contagious puking kids!

In this house we love dry Cheerios and ice cold water when recovering.

Surely the moral here, rather than bashing the teachers who have a tremendous amount of pressure put on them to show up and teach regardless of the clear logical need for them to stay at home, is that schools need to be supporting teachers better to take leave when they need it?

I get that you’re all pissed of that your sick, but pop over to the staff room board and have a read of some of threads there about needing to take a leave of absence. Schools are possibly the least parent friendly workplaces in the country.

@InsomniaTho this is a teacher at her own child's school, so she's put herself right in the firing line. In our family alone 7 working days have been lost. Extrapolate that out across the other affected families and that's a big cost. All because one teacher wouldn't take a day off with her sick child. Selfish and seriously poor judgment.
Sorry it happened to you, hope you can get your exam credits.

TheSheep totally agree that schools should support staff in this situation, and hopefully a parent making a complaint may help focus minds in the SLT, if indeed there is a problem in this particular school. It willbe interesting to see the outcome from this incident which has affected so many people.

Wolfie your first response to OP made it sound as though you thought she needed to have gone to the GP to get her noro diagnosed. I'm really surprised to hear that coming from someone who is immunosuppressed. Surely the last thing we want is people feeling they have to go to the GP to prove they have a bad vomiting bug?

INeed there's no way I could have gone to the GP even if I'd wanted to. At one point point I was vomiting every 40 mins or so. DH and I were actually being sick in concert . We have every symptom of Noro, but no, strictly speaking we don't have a diagnosis of that specifically and no, as you rightly say, I'm not going to go to the surgery and risk infecting the whole village just to have a label stuck on it.

@Kedegree Whoops!

@TheSheep I totally agree, some of my friends are teachers. But I think it’s painfully sad that any working mother feels forced to send her clearly sick child to work because employers are assholes about emergency leave. The whole system needs a bloody good shake.

OP I agree with you! Sorry my message wasn't clear. It wasn't you I was questioning.

I was bothered by Wolfie's message (which sounded a bit snide!) that seemed to suggest that someone who thinks they have noro should have this confirmed by a GP.

It would be irresponsible of anyone to go into a GP surgery with D&V (let alone impractical.)

INeed sorry my fault, we are in violent agreement I feel I was slightly put out by getting that first response when really I was after advice of whether and what to eat. I'm not sure that an exact diagnosis was absolutely necessary for the thread . I did infact text my friend who's a GP and she said "it'll be noro, don't go to the docs" .

I had D & V last year for the first time in my life - not sure how I managed to escape it for so long! Kids never got it either.

The first thing I could keep down was a cup of tea followed by a piece of toast and a scrape of butter,. I always thought you were advised to avoid dairy although I just realised I had dairy in both my tea and on my toast . I had ginger biscuits after that. But really didn't eat anything other than Bananas, toast and butter and soup for 3-4 days.