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

Yes a small bucket. But we rarely have to use it thankfully.

We have a specific sick bowl but it is also used for mixing cakes. Cleaned thoroughly in between, obv. If you're not using the sick bowl are you even I'll?

Today I had to grab the closest thing to hand - the washing up bowl
Yes it’s grim but the sick bucket had been left upstairs next to DD’s bed & we’d never have made it to the toilet. Beats scrubbing carpets anyway!

Specific jug here! Always smells of zoflora when not in use.

We have a special sick bowl (plastic 5L) for kids and a sick bucket (B&Q orange bucket) for drunk teens. Prepared for all eventualities.

The absolute last thing you want is sick children running to the bathroom - pretty much guaranteed to get vomit all over the carpet/up the wall etc ... containment is the best policy.

I mean in general it’s the toilet.

If something needs to go next to the bed, it’s the bin. I specifically bought the super duper cheap plastic ones from Ikea for this very reason.

I think I’d feel odd using a food bowl for sick.

We use the potette travel potty and just tie and chuck the liners, I really don’t do sick very well (not envy)

An old baby top and tail bath is my sick bowl of choice!

You have to have a bucket! You can't rely just on the toilet! Not when it's both ends!

Specific bowl and it’s a bit of a family heirloom. It was my sick bowl as a small child. Just a plastic, round washing up bowl which is at least 45 years old!

Growing up ours was the old potty, back in the days when potties weren’t the size of armchairs. We have a cardboard job that came from a hospital at some point but it has magic anti puke properties - once it appears, no one has ever puked.

That is grim, sorry OP.

Ikea Sïc bins are obviously de rigeur!

Ds has severe reflux and vomits on a regular basis (and most nights is in our or his bed propped up on one of our chests....hence by the bed), dd1 gets anxiety vomiting....we have one bathroom with the only toilet. A couple of Sïc Buckets is essential!

ewwww! A designated one! A washing up bowl... although I don't actually know where it is so if one of the kids got sick tonight I might have to use our mixing bowl!

Nope, just use our salad bowl. Often give it a fishy side eye when we have guests - but really it has been washed.

I bought sick bags off ebay. Tip the contents down the loo and the bag goes in the outdoor bin.

The plastic pumpkin bucket we use to collect Hallowe'en sweets in is an ideal size for use as a sick bucket. We use that and line it with the travel potty bags we got years ago. It's small enough for the child to hold andd position under their chin but big enough to catch the chunder. We had to use it last week as it happens because ds was sent home from school after having decorated the classroom with his tuna sarnie 👍

Yes! When I was young, it was the small red round washing up bowl under the sink, also used for cleaning. It's still in the same place in the kitchen with old dishcloths in it. DS12 was quite phlegmy as a baby and often made himself sick coughing in the night so I started keeping a plastic mixing bowl under his bed. We've since moved house a couple of times but it still lives under his bed just in case! I've also been known to use a small bin. How awful is it though when you have D&V so have to sit on the loo with a bowl?!

A nice new washing up bowl also used for soaking clothes when it’s been thoroughly cleaned

Toilet or a bucket. Definitely nit a bowl I use for cooking.

Yes we do it's an old Christmas pudding bowl. Had it years. Remember df attempting to throw it away as he thought that was the pint of it being plastic. But it's a reassuring green colour and is always a comforting sight when one is poorly

We have a sick bucket. It only got that title after I came home after a night out which involved more booze and less food than I thought and it was in the hallway.....
I did have to stop DP using it for cleaning when we were decorating. Everyone knows it's use now.

We have a bowl because it's a rather long way between lounge and loo so in an emergency and such a situation it's a bit of a a way/ risk

Use a cleaning bucket and disinfect it well.

Although may start using enamelled metal bowl that I got for £2 in charity shop