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've got 3 designated washing up bowls that live in the airing cupboard.

When DS1 was little he had Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome and could be sick up to 40 times a day for a week so it was a case of grabbing one full bowl out from under his chin and replacing it with another. There was no time for him to run to the loo. He could hardly catch a breath.

I remember when DS2 was about 17 he got noro and ran to the toilet but didn't quite make it. He completely covered the bathroom, and as he's 6'4 it was on the ceiling, on top of the cabinets, the mirror. I don't do sick so cleaning that was fun. 🤮

The bowls get used as Guinea pig baths now too.

I sent DS2 to uni with a washing up bowl for a sick bowl, too. I heard it was useful in Freshers week and when he caught D&V from a placement he was on.

A sick bowl in each bedroom????!!!!

I have specific sick bowls...

One in the bathroom, one in the bedroom, one in the spare room.

Im sick alot and alot of the time , it comes on fast and there is no way i could make it to the toilet

We have two, a big and small, stainless steel mixing bowl. Can't remember getting them, but didn't like them for the kitchen, and my plastic sick bowl had broke. They're hardly ever used now, thank god, but there have been times, when all three kids have needed to puke. Tbh it's normally me who gets ill, and usually it's the middle of the night, so I leave it in the airing cupboard.

Yuke! I definitely wouldn’t use a salad bowl.

We have a washing up bowl that is only used for dirty things so works as a sick bowl.

Specific green sick bowl here

The house cleaning bucket is the sick bucket. It has so much bleach, boiling water, soap and disinfection over the years I don’t think about it! But the salad bowl seems a bit grim op

How often are people sick? I don’t think any of us have been sick for 7/8 years including ds who is nearly 12. No sick bowl here.

DD has been sick a few times this year. DH and I are hardly ever sick.

Dedicated old washing up bowl here. Always prefer to use toilet. Never a sink. I do though need a bowl for those time the illness lingers and I don’t want to be at the loo for hours and/ or for when the v-OMG comes very suddenly. Nothing like the security of a bowl by the bed (plus paper towels obvs.

Can’t imagine eating from anything used for vomit.

@Coffeeandchocolate10
I believe that may have been Bill Bryson-the toity jar?

@EmmaGellerGreen

It depends. Sometimes once a day, sometimes once a week, sometimes afew times a day....
Every day is different....

No reason found, as long as i dont feel ill, its ok.

If i feel ill when i vomit, i collapse (No known reason)
So bloody awful !

@duckme yes! Yes you clever person!

Extract here if anybody wants to read;

vandersluys.ca/?p=1436

Either the toilet or a bucket next to the bed (if a longer thing than a one off).

Old washing up bowl that lives in a landing cupboard. DS is notorious for not making it to the bathroom in time.

Halloween bucket

We have champagne bucket
That's the style! Aspirational living!

I morning-sickness puked in one the £1 ikea plastic waste paper buns so many times that 8 years later I still feel queasy just by walking past them in store 🤢

We still use the plastic bathroom bin for vomit, but it’s a different kind now.

Ideally we rush to the loo, but if anyone is ill they take a mixing bowl to bed just incase they don't make it in time. It has never been actually used yet, and if anyone did, it's likely to become a dedicated general cleaning/sick bowl.

Actual bowl .. heavy plastic mixing bowl once ruined by popcorn in a microwave.. it has a sad cupboard life as designated sick bowl

8 pages on vomit bowls!! Hilarious.

How much vomitting. It sounds like a regular event in some pp homes?
I don't think we've ever managed to get sick in a proper sick bowl (oh the shame)

Its been all over the back of the car, carpet, up the stairs, in my hands (dc, not me!), but mostly the toilet. Thats about half a dozen times all told.

It's the bucket normally used for mopping floors in our house

I have one, it's just a plastic washing up bowl from b&m, currently in the downstairs toilet with a load of decorating stuff in it but I'm sure it'll be resurrected for vomit before long! As a child we had a special boke bowl and it was actually kind of comforting to see it being brought out, like an old friend

Top tip for parents of young DC who are going through their first vomiting bug: don't do what I do and empty the sick bowl into the bath in a panic. You'll be washing the chunks out for ages. Just tip it in the toilet.

I use a small plastic pot which was part of a set for cooking in the microwave. I prefer it because I use the handle and its easier to hold.

It lives in my bedside cabinet. Unfortunately I'm sick quite regularly