Emeophobia help!!!

[autumngirl714]

I suffer greatly from a sick phobia. Before any says it, I've undergone intensive therapy, edmr therapy and also counciling but it hasn't improved.

My eldest son was sick in my car today with me and my youngest in it. We had to drive home and clean him up.

I feel like I have a ticking clock attached to my head! Dramatic I know, but I'm so frightened! I'm scared because I know I'll most likely get this, but also my youngest too. I'm a single parent and I have no family support with. So it's just me.

I'm freaking out because I know only bleach kills noro virus, but I couldn't bleach my car as it'd stain all the fabric, so when I do the school run for eldest in the morning, my car will be full of it! (I have used normal antibacterial).

I'm scared of waking up to more sick, I'm scared of parenting whislt I'm sick.

I know I'll cope with whatever happens, but the waiting is so very frightening :(

Does anyone have any advice? When would we likely come down with it?

My son is feeling a lot better thank fully!

What did you use to clean your car?
Hot soapy water kills norovirus. Alcohol gel doesn't.

I'm glad your eldest child is feeling better but DC should be off school for 48 hours after any sickness and /or diarrhoea episodes.

Keep up with good hand hygiene and give surfaces/door handles /high touch points a wipe with a warm soapy cloth to kill any lingering germs. Open the windows for maybe half an hour a few times a day to air the house out and stop germs hanging about.

Sorry, that was a typo! Ment to say taking you gets to school. My eldest is currently living the life of Riley with his iPad and ps5 whilst I'm stressing out wfh and bleaching everywhere 🙈

I went back out to my car at 6am. I cleaned the floor with diluted bleach and I wiped the seatbelt with warm soapy water. Not sure if that's good enough :( I'd previously correct it all with 99.99% anti bac and anti virus! Typical that noro is the 0.1% that it doesn't respond too!!!!!

Try charcoal tablets. Apparently they shorten the duration of norovirus. I take them when people start being sick around me. They seem to work, my family had the norovirus and was sick about 12 hours, I was sick for about 5hrs

Get some Clinell wipes. They kill norovirus. Milton wipes do too, but you need to rub those on the surface for 30-60seconds so Clinell are better (and thicker). I don’t know if they work on fabric but they’ll certainly do for the hard surfaces. And as a fellow emetephobe who’s biggest fear is norovirus, I think I’d probably just try and convince myself they will work on fabric and try not to think any further on that (easier said than done of course!).