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

High five to the snobbish people who have never had a bad sickness bug as an adult. The type where you get approximately 1.3 seconds warning before each vom add in a household of adults who have all got it, both ends and less bathrooms than people. That was a rough time.

We have a dedicated one, it’s an old washing up bowl that was replaced, my ds aged 3 knows it’s the ‘sicking bowl’

Large white plastic mixing bowl that has "do not use for food" written on both interior and exterior surfaces in permanent marker so that its dedicated sick bowl status is never forgotten. The idea of eating from a bowl that has previously contained sick turns my stomach. I was only able to keep the bowl in the house and not throw it away because I had the idea of the marker pen.

In the ‘higher education’ thread there was a poster who mentioned a bucket the students all vommed in which was named Boris. Got a boris bucket for DD’s flat. Aptly named.

Also, if someone has a sickness bug I always place the ‘sicking bowl’ next to their bed with a drop of dettol in it, because that’s what my mother did, weird!?

I can't understand why some poster question the use of a sick bowl rather than going to the toilet! Sometimes there no warning and even if there was usually not enough time to make it anywhere near the toilet!

I'd rather clean out a container that has contained the sick to one place than clean lumps of sick off carpets and walls.

Of course puking in the toilet would be so much easier and better but when I feel sick the last thing I want to do is run for the toilet with my hand over my mouth.

I have a dedicated sick bowl and have used roses/quality street sweet tubs over the years.

Just wish dp would use a bowl when he's sick as he takes himself to the toilet but is sick in the sink which I think is so much worse.

It's always a massive achievement in a parent's life when children are able to make it to the toilet on time to be sick!

Dedicated sick bowl here; one that couldn't be mistaken for anything else. Gets sterilised and then put in the dishwasher then hidden away until next time.

It's only really for the odd occasion when either 2 people are sick at once, it's D&V at the same time or to give reassurance to the sick person that there's a plan if they don't make it to the toilet in time.

We also have travel sick bags handy if desperate. Which I have used recently for my migraine prone son when I picked him up from school. The taxi driver was so kind. My son was so careful. No spillage and bag binned!

Under the sink in the utility room is a small sick bowl and a plastic washing up bowl for small children with worse aim. So pleased most of mine are now of an age to get to the toilet...

One dedicated sick bowl in the bedroom, kept in grabbing distance for the kids. Then one dedicated bowl downstairs for soaking clothes covered in undesirables or scrubbing things off the carpet.

Also have a lidded ex-ice cream box in the footwell in the car, with a couple of sheets in kitchen roll in. No one has been car sick since I put it there!

For emergencies where the children might not make it to the bathroom I use the mop bucket. I put a bit of water and dettol in if I think they may be sick. Then it can just be tipped in to the toilet and cleaned after it has been tipped. The water makes it easier to tip the sick out so it doesn't really stick in the bucket.

We have a specific bucket that used to be a cloth nappy bucket. It gets kept in the bathroom cupboard but we mostly just use the toilet unless it’s very bad (bed bound).

Old washing up bowl kept under our bed. My dc are teenagers now but I still daren't get rid of it!

We have one, it's in the little cupboard under the bathroom sink. I've also got about 10 hospital paper/cardboard sick bowls that's I've acquired over the past two years. DC mainly manage to make it to the toilet though.

That's a good tip Capodimonte

We had small popcorn type buckets with lids. Sisal and vomit are not a good combo.

A dedicated sick bowl here.

My sister used her washing up bowl as her sick bowl and I’ve been unable to drink or eat out of her house as they’ve all been washed in that sick bowl. Makes me feel sick thinking about it but she sees nothing wrong with it.

Dedicated cheap plastic bowl. Ironically with a crack in it.

We always used to use a large mixing bowl, the same one we made cakes in

I use a yellow plastic bowl which was once the weighing bowl for my grandmother's scales. The bowl is too scratched and old to be used for food now. It lives in the under the sink cupboard and holds bin bags when not in use, or sometimes I'll take it out and fill it with hot water and detergent to clean things like floors or toilets where I don't have access to really hot water direct from a tap.

Sorry but that's disgusting- don't have such now but when DS young yes a bowl once been sick in was kept for that (until D H used to drain oil out of car)

I liberated some women's sanitary towel disposal bags from a services toilet for use as emergency car sick bags.

We use a bin ..a small traditional shaped plastic one....and I line it with about six bags...then when one has sick in it I tie it up and throw away ....next liner already in there waiting. !!!!

Lots and lots of disposable sick buckets here with a sachet of absorbent powder in the bottom.
One of my dc is extremely travel sick inherited from me and almost always vomits in the car on journeys of more than 5 minutes. Or once in the car that was stationary on the driveway while I was waiting for the sodding windscreen to demist.
Kids have been well drilled in that if they feel sick, stay in bed and shout for me. Its easier to clean vomit off of bedding as all I have to do is strip the bed, stick the lot in a laundry sack, stick sack in machine (they dissolve at hot temperatures) than it is scrubbing the carpet.

Like some other people I have a supply of gloves, aprons, disposable cleaning wipes, vom bowls and absorbent powder 'teabags'.

We’ve got one bucket, but when it’s used for a sock bucket I chuck a peddle bin liner in it then we don’t have to wash out the lumpy sick 🤢

Dedicated small sturdy plastic bucket.