Norovirus is not what we asked Santa for

[ElsieElf]

My dd aged 10 started being sick last night. She has been sick roughly every half hour since 8pm last night. She doesn't appear to even be able to keep sips of water down. She also has diarrhoea.
She obviously feels horrendous, dizzy, shakey, thirsty. I presume it is norovirus. We have had it before but this is the worst episode we have ever encountered. Any advice?

Poor kid, not only no longer in new Christmas pjs. She is now wearing some belonging to her older sister as we have gone through all her ones. Dh and I have taken shifts to stay up with her.

Also trying to work out what to do with all the food we have in the house. Turkey isn't cooked yet best before date is tomorrow so might wait and cook it tomorrow. Or freeze it?
I think the rest of our household will have to eat the soup that I made yesterday. There are 4 of us and enough food for 12. All the veg is cut and prepped. Not sure what to do with it all. Might try and wait to see how dd is later.

Same in our house. Xmas is cancelled until new year now 😢. Turkey and chicken in the freezer for a later date

What rotten luck. Hope the rest of you don't get it too.

If it was me I think I'd leave the turkey till tomorrow. Maybe do some of the veg with a few pigs in blankets if you've got the energy or if your other dd is old enough to help with it? - you and your DH must be exhausted

Hope you all feel better soon @Birdsnesthead.
I'm hoping we have room in the freezer. The turkey is huge. The fridge is like jenga.
If I am still awake and not ill myself, I might lock myself in the kitchen and eat the entire trifle! I love trifle...it was just for the grown ups anyway so the kids won't be missing out. They prefer a chocolate Yule log. It should be ok for a few days but the trifle has fresh cream so needs eating! I think I'm up for that challenge!

To stop everyone else catching it clean all the touch points with bleach... You don't need to scrub just a wipe over will do. And wash your hands each time you touch your DD or something she has touched and before every piece of food or drink... The soap and happy birthday twice hand wash.

My mum and brother keep reinfecting each other because they are from the school of hand washing that says a vague waft near a running tap is sufficient.

Hope she makes a speedy recovery and you don't catch it

Oh how I empathise with you, and how utterly horrible this bug is. I agree though, after having this some years back, our household really has suffered.

My 8 year old son projectile vomited around 8pm 19th Dec. Bless him he tried to get upstairs to the bathroom but didn't make it to bottom step of stairs it was so sudden. Then like your dd, every 20 minutes he was bringing something up and complaining of stomach cramps. This continued upto around 7am and then got less frequent, already he had started with diarrhea and I was constantly rinsing the bowl, running him a fresh drink, washing machine loads to dryer and repeat on top of cleaning him down physically and disinfecting where he was laid. He has ASD so was difficult to get him to sip fluid so it took a few bouts of bringing up his gulps of water for him to take tiny sips, but, he was obviously thirsty. Around 9am I gave him sachet of dioralyte in 200ml water and he sipped that alongside very weak orange cordial. He wasn't vomiting the quantity or at the frequency he started but still wretched on his empty stomach. He complained of headache, the diarrhoea he didn't mention but it was certain! Only advice I would say is that to give your dd some hydrating fluid like that dioralyte or even lucozade isotonic to try and keep them from being dehydrated as aibu but I think it would traumatise me too much for that to occur also, and at least above age 6 you have a little understanding with them as opposed to a baby idk.

FYI around 4 hours later from ds vomiting, my 7 year old dd sat up from being fast asleep and projectile vomited whilst still half asleep... So same process as above just twice over... Not nice. Horrific I would say. My dd also has had 2 nights of bad dreams, waking up etc. I guess it's the virus messing with her temperature? So neither ate a scrap of food for 3 days straight, but they increased their intake of fluid as did I with the hydration sachets as my dd was like a leaking tap it was a constant stream of watery smelly poo for a good 24hrs. Now we are onto day 6 (yeah Not the 48hrs NHS advise) and both still aren't eating huge amounts and are very lethargic, no sickness but poo is still watery and so smelly! It's such a horrible virus and even with the bleaching and cleaning etc yes I too have it and safe to say Xmas is a little rubbish for all unfortunately. Wish speedy recovery for your dd. T x

I hope I don't too. I'm immune suppressed and previously I have caught a tummy bug it has led to a Crohns flair up and I've become really unwell.
I've been googling which shops are open locally to get more kitchen roll, carpet cleaner and disinfectant spray. We are going through everything rapidly. I don't want to start using cloths as we already have such a mountain of washing - PJs, bedding towels
Dh currently sleeping and I will get another nap later. Away to put a load into the tumble dryer.
Dd1 awake but wants to let her little sister sleep before going to open their presents. Hopefully dd2 can sleep a while longer. Poor kid is exhausted.

Hopefully your household is on the mend soon @Scorp7.
My in-laws want to drop off presents, not coming in the house or touching anyone. Luckily we gave them their gifts earlier as we knew there would be little room here with all the people.
I might see if the could stop at a pharmacy for some dioralyte. There must be a pharmacy somewhere nearby that is open.