Handhold - on holiday and DP has food poisoning *sickness warning*

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Just looking for a handhold and someone to tell me it’ll all be okay, everything seems so much worse in the middle of the night!

We are on holiday due to fly back in the early hours of tomorrow morning ready for Christmas with our family. DP has come down with food poisoning, he has been sick every hour since 11pm. I feel terrible for the people in the hotel rooms next to us but not sure what to do. He has been managing to sleep between the bouts but I’ve been lying here awake feeling really sad and trying to accept that we aren’t going to be home for Christmas.

I know when it’s light outside and past the 8am mark I’ll feel more positive. But right now I just feel so so so sorry for DP, anxious about what to do next and generally rubbish!

That's awful, he might be ok once he's got it all out ? Won't be pleasant journey but think they'll let you fly.

My sympathies with your DP - it’s horrible! But if it’s food poisoning it should pass fairly quickly, the body just wants to expel the bad food! I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to fly home for Christmas?

I'm off to bed myself now - however a couple of suggestions-

Food poisoning usually takes 24-36 to clear the system, although you can feel really washed out for several days after.

Get your DH drinking - sips even if he does fancy it. 'full fat' coke if you have it with some salt added, water with equal parts sugar and salt if not. In the morning go to the chemist's and ask for re-hydration sachets. Drinking enough will help him feel better quicker.

Try and get some sleep yourself - no point in both of you feel awful.

As he'll feel washed out - start packing and getting stuff ready to fly as soon as you can, so it's all done. Leave plenty of time to get to the airport in case you have to stop en route

Hope he feels better soon

Are you sure it's food poisoning and not norovirus?

I don't think you'll be able to fly, or rather he won't unless he can stop puking.

Speak to the hotel about seeing a dr, there is usually a really good anti sickness injection you can get to ride him over through the flight, if he's too unwell to get to the airport in a taxi etc then you need to speak to insurance re a new hotel room as you need to check out today. They may say you need to go home though!

I went through similar with an ex on holiday in Europe. We went to the airport a bit earlier the morning of our flight and paid to see a doctor through insurance who gave him an anti sickness injection which saw him through flight back to UK. Good luck getting home

"Sickness warning"?

Does the complex have a doctor or is there a nearby hospital?

I got similar in Mexico - doctor on site gave me a shot in the backside every morning, rehydration drinks , some tablets and I was able to fly .

It would have cost a fraction of the price if I'd gone to hospital. But claimed it back on insurance anyway.

It will be a horrible horrible flight home if he isnt seen

Some people don’t like reading about people being sick.

So sorry your dh is so unwell. Hopefully he’ll feel better once he’s got everything “out”. These things don’t usually last very long.

Call the doctor, you can get an injection in the arse which stops you being sick. You need it as close to catching your flight as possible as it wears off.

Thank you so much everyone, read your responses as they came in and it just helped so much to read other people’s words!

We have the room until tomorrow, flight is at 3am so we will hopefully be leaving just after midnight. DP hasn’t been sick since 5am-ish and is feeling far less nauseous but still very sweaty and whoozy.

I too had worried it was norovirus, in which case we would never risk flying. But we both think it’s some dodgy street food he had yesterday, I didn’t have any.

Can anyone advise as to whether he should just not eat until we are home tomorrow? We were pondering what plain things he could have if his appetite comes back tonight but I feel as though he’d be better off on an empty stomach - am I wrong?

My mum (retired nurse) always used to say clear fluids like flat fat 7up for the sugar. Then when he feels like it eat really plain dry things like toast or rich tea biscuits. Don't eat fatty things or anything with too much flavour.
I hope it works out and you get home.

He now has an empty stomach and a whole day to get home, ideally he will want some energy if he can manage.

Some lemonade or coke (sugary) will give him energy. I wouldn't risk food until home.