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Worst sickness bug I’ve ever had 😔 help!

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Inyourwildestdreams · 08/12/2023 20:00

Any advice would be greatly received. I have the most horrific D&V 😔 came on this morning about 9.30am - I was on the toilet every 15 mins until about 12noon. It then turned to vomiting and I was being sick roughly every 20 mins for a few hours. Since about 5pm it’s been every 40ish mins. I just went an hour with nothing then had both ends going at once. It’s literally water from both ends.

I’m not usually one for sickness bugs - I’ve had maybe 3 in the last 20 years. This is by far the worst. What should I be doing? I can’t even keep water down but I feel SO dehydrated my head is throbbing 😔 I’m trying just to take tiny sips. I’ve now changed to ice chips because I need something to wet my mouth. It’s so dry it’s unreal 😔 I’ve been sipping rehydration sachets but it’s all obviously just coming back out.

Can anyone give any advice? I’m assuming it’s just a case of letting it pass? I don’t really know what I need to be honest. I think I just need to write down how awful I feel.

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ANightingale · 08/12/2023 20:13

No advice really other than to keep rehydrating even if you can't keep it down very well and seek medical advice if it doesn't clear up. It sounds to me more like food poisoning than a bug - anything you have eaten lately that could have caused that? Hoping you feel better soon.

LapinR0se · 08/12/2023 20:16

Do not attempt to rehydrate with water. It can make it worse. You need dioralyte and to drink it in tiny sips eg 5ml every 5 mins

AbacusAvocado · 08/12/2023 20:17

Tiny tiny sips of rehydration drink. Rest. Wait. That’s all you can do really! It will pass.

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HomiesAlone · 08/12/2023 20:19

Poor you

Finishingoff · 08/12/2023 20:22

Oh bless you. I had this. For 7 hours I had constant vomiting and diarrhoea. By constant I mean 45 minutes of not being able to get off the toilet or take my head out of a bucket, a 5 minute break where both things seemed to stop and then it started again. 7 full hours. I honestly had no idea that the body could hold so much.

I always think you have to think of it like labour - just let your body take over and do what it needs. It will end soon enough by the sounds of it.

Send someone for Dioralyte or similar and take tiny sips. 💐

NonanteNeuf · 08/12/2023 20:24

You need electrolytes!

Salt water will do or suck on a piece of rock salt and sip water.

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Inyourwildestdreams · 08/12/2023 22:00

Thanks all. I’m trying as best as I can with the Dioralyte sachets but it really is absolutely vile. The taste of that alone is making me feel queasy 😬 i have blackcurrant - are there other flavours and are they all as bad?

I’m just hoping it’s staying in long enough for some of it to be absorbed at least.

Will send DH out again first thing and see what other rehydration stuff he can find.

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TomatoSandwiches · 08/12/2023 22:05

Ice pops, rocket lollies, nothing with cream or milk, just ice lollies and dioralyte.

BananaSplitsss · 08/12/2023 22:06

Flat Coke apparently helps.

Please don’t quote me though but am sure I read something about that somewhere.

Small ( teeny tiny ) sips of water too … to prevent dehydration.

You poor thing.

Beginningless · 08/12/2023 22:09

Dioralyte is disgusting, you’d think they could make it less offensive given only the nauseous need it. I’m so sorry for you, it’s really horrible. I’ve had many vomiting bugs in the last 8yrs I’ve had children, after barely in my life before them. It’s not true that water will make you worse - diaoralyte will hydrate you better but if water is more palatable then do that. It sounds like you are doing all the right things. If you can try to snooze then sometimes that can give everything a pause, but as pp says your body just needs to do what it has to. I hope it stops for you soon x

fpurplea · 08/12/2023 22:21

Norovirus is doing the rounds again and apparently cases are up about 25% from last year. Our house has just come out the other side, for me and DH it was pretty much 24 hours of the properly bad feeling like death, poor DD it was over a week before the d&v stopped. So could be that. If it is, anecdotally it seems to be quite short lived in adults, so hopefully you'll feel a bit better tomorrow!

Rehydration-wise, the doctor suggested 50% diluted apple juice (the from concentrate stuff, not the nice stuff!) Mainly for the baby, but DH and I found it a lot more palatable than dioralyte, and it did help us a lot.

Millymay13 · 08/12/2023 22:36

I’m not sure if this is technically what you should drink but the last couple of sickness bugs I’ve had I sipped those flat lucozade electrolyte drinks. I found them way more palatable and (quite disgustingly) way nicer when I was being sick too. I’ll never be able to drink them outside of being unwell ever again, but they definitely have helped me through some horrible times!

I agree with others that if you can manage to sleep that will help, and it will pass. Each minute done is a minute closer to feeling better.

HR313 · 08/12/2023 22:37

I highly recommend Silicolgel - I usually get it from boots but works wonders for preventing nausea and vomiting. This time last week I suddenly felt sick and had diahhroea. Thankfully took some and within minutes felt the nausea go away. It’s hideous tasting stuff but it does work!

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Inyourwildestdreams · 08/12/2023 23:18

Thank you all ❤️ I really appreciate the advice. I’ll get DH to stock up on a few different drinks in the morning and see what I can stomach. I managed to get an hours sleep which was nice but have woken up feeling horrendously nauseous but not actually vomiting and I feel like this might be worse 🤢

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Inyourwildestdreams · 09/12/2023 03:57

ANightingale · 08/12/2023 20:13

No advice really other than to keep rehydrating even if you can't keep it down very well and seek medical advice if it doesn't clear up. It sounds to me more like food poisoning than a bug - anything you have eaten lately that could have caused that? Hoping you feel better soon.

@ANightingale Sorry, just seen your question. I had a small shop-bought pancake with a little butter yesterday morning so not anything too crazy! Prior to that it was Thursday night dinner at about 5.30pm. Illness started 9.30am so highly unlikely to be the dinner!

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GreatGateauxsby · 09/12/2023 04:09

Millymay13 · 08/12/2023 22:36

I’m not sure if this is technically what you should drink but the last couple of sickness bugs I’ve had I sipped those flat lucozade electrolyte drinks. I found them way more palatable and (quite disgustingly) way nicer when I was being sick too. I’ll never be able to drink them outside of being unwell ever again, but they definitely have helped me through some horrible times!

I agree with others that if you can manage to sleep that will help, and it will pass. Each minute done is a minute closer to feeling better.

I can't stomach dioralyte so do lucocade too

What I would say is was sick of being sick so I left it and stopped trying to drink anything for about 4 hours, had a nap and then started on the 5ml sip every ten mins.

At my worst (about 24/28hours in) I had keytones in my tiny urine sample, oxygen at 90% and low blood pressure. I was basically at the point I could take no more and then managed a nap and had a lazurus style recovery.
I braved a half slice dry toast about 2.5 / 3 days after it started.

Good luck
Hope the morning brings better things

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Inyourwildestdreams · 09/12/2023 04:24

GreatGateauxsby · 09/12/2023 04:09

I can't stomach dioralyte so do lucocade too

What I would say is was sick of being sick so I left it and stopped trying to drink anything for about 4 hours, had a nap and then started on the 5ml sip every ten mins.

At my worst (about 24/28hours in) I had keytones in my tiny urine sample, oxygen at 90% and low blood pressure. I was basically at the point I could take no more and then managed a nap and had a lazurus style recovery.
I braved a half slice dry toast about 2.5 / 3 days after it started.

Good luck
Hope the morning brings better things

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@GreatGateauxsby Thank you! I haven’t vomited since about 8pm but feel horrendously nauseous and can’t get rid of that feeling 😔 The diarrhoea had stopped while I was being so sick but it’s started again with a vengeance.

I barely have the energy to make it to the bathroom. I’m completely and utterly drained 😔

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Andthereyougo · 09/12/2023 04:36

Years ago a dr told me to drink flat 7Up, said it contained electrolytes. It worked anyway.
Another dr told me to give my kids chocolate buttons to eat when vomiting stopped. I thought he was mad but they seemed to bounce back quickly.

Hope you feel better soon. Could well be Norovirus.

TheFairyCaravan · 09/12/2023 04:48

This is my worst nightmare, however DS1 used to vomit copious amounts when he was a child because he had Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome. When he was admitted to hospital they’d give him that cheap, sugary blackcurrant squash tp drink which always seemed to stop the vomiting. They gave him that, too, before he was diagnosed and thought it was a bug.

I don’t know if you can get it anymore, I always keep a bottle of the sugary Ribena in just in case anyone is unwell and the kids have left home. They do too.

I hope you feel better soon, and I hope no one else goes down with it.

itsywincydog · 09/12/2023 04:54

I had this a few weeks ago. Worst sick bug of my life. Sorry to be graphic but at one point I was sat on my bed throwing up into a bucket whilst pooing myself at the same time as I couldn't manage to get to the bathroom as I was so weak!
I don't think DH will see me the same way again!
I stuck with fizzy lucozade although hospital told me to give dd 5ml of apple juice every 10 mins when she had the same.

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Inyourwildestdreams · 09/12/2023 06:38

Andthereyougo · 09/12/2023 04:36

Years ago a dr told me to drink flat 7Up, said it contained electrolytes. It worked anyway.
Another dr told me to give my kids chocolate buttons to eat when vomiting stopped. I thought he was mad but they seemed to bounce back quickly.

Hope you feel better soon. Could well be Norovirus.

@Andthereyougo I’ll get DH to get some today. That might be slightly more palatable!

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Inyourwildestdreams · 09/12/2023 06:42

TheFairyCaravan · 09/12/2023 04:48

This is my worst nightmare, however DS1 used to vomit copious amounts when he was a child because he had Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome. When he was admitted to hospital they’d give him that cheap, sugary blackcurrant squash tp drink which always seemed to stop the vomiting. They gave him that, too, before he was diagnosed and thought it was a bug.

I don’t know if you can get it anymore, I always keep a bottle of the sugary Ribena in just in case anyone is unwell and the kids have left home. They do too.

I hope you feel better soon, and I hope no one else goes down with it.

@TheFairyCaravan it sounds like a sugary drink is the way to go! I’ll get DH to check for Ribena too. Thank you! I’m hopefully nobody else comes down with it either. I’ve locked myself away in the bedroom but we only have 1 bathroom so I’m having to bleach and disinfect it everytime I’m in (which is a LOT!). Really hoping to avoid our 3yo getting it!

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Inyourwildestdreams · 09/12/2023 06:45

itsywincydog · 09/12/2023 04:54

I had this a few weeks ago. Worst sick bug of my life. Sorry to be graphic but at one point I was sat on my bed throwing up into a bucket whilst pooing myself at the same time as I couldn't manage to get to the bathroom as I was so weak!
I don't think DH will see me the same way again!
I stuck with fizzy lucozade although hospital told me to give dd 5ml of apple juice every 10 mins when she had the same.

@itsywincydog That sounds awful 😔 I was the same but did manage to make it to the toilet thankfully. I have never had anything as bad as this in my life - far TMI but I can hardly even feel it coming out the bottom end as it’s literally just water pouring it.

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Mouthfulofquiz · 09/12/2023 07:04

I had one so bad about five years ago that I went to the out of hours after constant vomiting for 3 days - he wanted to give me an anti sickness injection in the butt but my blood pressure was very low. So I got wheeled round to ED for an IV drip and injections of different anti sickness meds. Stayed over night on a ward with an IV and felt like a different person in the morning. However this was back in the day when you could actually get into a hospital!

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Inyourwildestdreams · 09/12/2023 07:20

Mouthfulofquiz · 09/12/2023 07:04

I had one so bad about five years ago that I went to the out of hours after constant vomiting for 3 days - he wanted to give me an anti sickness injection in the butt but my blood pressure was very low. So I got wheeled round to ED for an IV drip and injections of different anti sickness meds. Stayed over night on a ward with an IV and felt like a different person in the morning. However this was back in the day when you could actually get into a hospital!

@Mouthfulofquiz That sounds horrendous 😔 Glad they were able to fix you up! I just feel so dehydrated it’s unbelievable. There’s so much fluid going out and I can hardly get anything in 😔

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