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Sickness bugs 🤮

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RosieL84 · 28/08/2021 09:11

Hi there,

Sorry I'm a complete newbie to this so apologies if I've put this I'm the wrong place, I'm not very computer literate!

So,I have a fear of vomit, particularly my children vomiting and then a fear of them spreading it to eachother.

On Monday afternoon at about 4pm, one of my daughters began complaining of her tummy hurting and feeling sick then violently vomited once at 11pm and then spent all day Tuesday laid on the sofa with tummy pains. On Tuesday at about 2pm, another of my daughters started to complain of tummy ache and then violently vomited once at about 5.30pm and spent all day Wednesday laid on the sofa witb tummy pains. By Thursday they were both much better! Nobody else has been sick (I have 2 other children ages 12 and 7 months). However last night (Friday) the daughter who was sick on Monday came out in a hives type rash woth a nasty cough so I did a lateral flow test to rule out Covid which thankfully came back negative. Whilst I was doing the test, she cried and spat at my face, some of which went in my mouth 😳 I spent the rest of the evening googling whether you can catch a sickness bug from saliva almost 96 hours after the vomiting episode but its very mixed messages.

Usually I would ride it out and wait and see, but my partner is Best Man at his best friends wedding tomorrow (it's it's caned twice due to Covid) and I'm so worried I will get sick from my daughter spitting in my face/mouth and the spread will start again 😥

I guess I'm just looking for some reassurance. Trying to hold my sh*t together for my children so they will become emetophobic but really struggling after last night 😥

Thank you x

OP posts:
allycat4 · 28/08/2021 09:15

Hi - sorry to hear they've been ill.

Unfortunately, there's no way of knowing whether you'll get it. We've had it in our house, and not everyone got it.

It's probably worth getting help for the anxiety. You can't insulate yourself against sickness bugs - they're part of life but thankfully not very often!

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