Do you actually have a specific sick bowl or is it an everyday bowl ?

[starrynight19]

Just wondering how grim it is that our emergency ‘sick bowl’ is our salad bowl

we use a measuring jug
easy to hold and then easy to tip out to clean between uses.

goes in the dishwasher which pretty much disinfects it.

Dedicated old washing up bowl, it lives in the airing cupboard.

Bucket - you can get your head in it for volcanic vomit eruptions. Wish we had it when ds was sick one night from the top step on his bunk bed. Vomit on the ceiling!!

At some point on one of the many trips to A&E with the DC for various things we were given a few of the cardboard hat ones they use at the hospital.
But the DC are grown up now so can make it to the bathroom if need be.

Mop bucket here.
Nobody’s been sick in it for years though and we replaced it obviously after!

My 3 year old suddenly started puking in the kitchen last week and the first thing I grabbed for him to continue puking it was the saucepan that had my just drained carrots in for my roast dinner 😢

We do have one bowl that is always used for sick, it’s just a mixing bowl though. And to be honest if I was making cakes and needed a big mixing bowl, it wouldn’t bother me using it.

Definitely there is a dedicated sick bowl in my home

@helloisitmeyourelookingfor so what do you do if it is spouting from both ends simultaneously? And what do you do if there is only one loo in the house?
When DD is feeling nauseous she doesn’t want to spend all night with her head over the toilet, so she takes a bowl to keep next to her bed. It has nothing to do with toilet training
Some posters can be so irritatingly smug
It is an old washing bowl BTW

The toilet and a small square yellow washing up bowl which was originally purchased to handwash tights.

Years ago my DH at the time gave me a mixing bowl to be sick in which was also used to put the goldfish in when cleaning it's tank. That bowl is now used for food.

We have a specific bowl.

@Ginfordinner my thoughts exactly. Some people have evidently never experienced the joy that is food poisoning at its finest.

We use a celebrations tub.

We have a few Tesco value mixing bowls under the sink for messy jobs and vomiting.

Mines a bucket, or the washing up bowl!

We do not have a dedicated sick bowl. In our defence, the DC are hardly ever sick.

My twins always used to get sick bugs st the same time and were tiny. The thought of them fighting to get to the loo to vomit (and missing) is not worth contemplating. TBH when they were really small, I just used to wrap them in towels and let them vomit on those. They were so distressed that I had to cuddle them through each puking incident so towels all round easier. So graduating to a sick bowl feels like an achievement to me!

Man those were dark days. They really caught everything going and DS in particular wouldn’t be able to keep even water down for 24-36 hours at a time. Possibly the only time my mum got on a plane and came to mind me was when DH got the bug just after DS had recovered from one but the twins were only 10 months and I was literally at the end of my rope. 🥵

Thats gross

We have a dedicated sick bowl(s)

You cannot use a salad bowl!

We use ice cream or large margarine tubs. They get binned after each illness.

Ikea plastic bin 😂

Do you have a seperate bowl for pooing in too if you have the sudden runs or is that one you rush to too the loo for i feel like this is up there with toilet brushes

Yes because that's the exact same thing

Some posters can be so irritatingly smug

I agree smug, goady and not willing to think outside their own box. I was toilet trained from a young age, thank you. But suffered hyperemesis so preferred to vomit into a plastic bowl than spend 6 months sitting on the bathroom floor.

IKEA bin if I know it's coming- otherwise whatevers handy. 😂 Tend not to use the toilet as it encourages it to come out of my nose. 😭

My DM has one at her house, it's my old plastic potty from the 1960s It lives behind the loo.

At home I have a few buckets & old washing up bowls in my utility room, and anyone feeling nauseous grabs one of them.

I think using a kitchen bowl is grim almost as grim as an old potty

People actually have a specific sick bowl? I'm often sick as my gastric band is too tight. I have to use anything available. Plastic bag, bucket, sink.

Dedicated sick bowl kept under the sink.. and its a pretty large one to catch as many splashes as possible!