Vomit Survey (Idle Curiosity)

[BeanQuisine]

When you're at home and need to vomit, and have enough time to get to a suitable place, what do you choose?

a) Lavatory
b) Bathroom sink
c) Kitchen sink
d) Laundry sink
e) Bucket
f) Garden
g) Neighbour's garden
h) Other

I use the big laundry sink. Its ample size and convenient height make it much more comfortable than crouching over a toilet bowl.

But I realise this may be Australia-centric as many British homes don't have laundry sinks.

StruggleFlourish; I have an easily-triggered gag reflex (as in, cleaning my back teeth can set it off) so if I feel sick I only have to put my finger near the back of my mouth (not even down my throat) and whoops! I agree, you always feel better if you can bring something up. And no, I'm not bulimic.

The nearest toilet or a basin/bucket. I can’t remember the last time I threw up. Think it was when I was pregnant with DS2 over 13 years ago. I’m not someone who throws up easily. I do feel very nauseous sometimes, but that’s about it. The kids always just throw up on the nearest rug or sofa or important paperwork.

We are all vomiters

dd has a hiatus hernia, all of us have reflux and even worse we are all sympathetic vomiters and have allergies that cause us to vomit

we use plastic bins if genuinely sick - otherwise toilet

we also have sick bags which have a chemical at the bottom that turns vomit into a more solid form so easier to dispose of for travelling!

The toilet as it flushes straight away. I often feel ‘queasy’ but am rarely actually sick, which is good as my only toilet is downstairs. If I’m feeling unwell at all when I go to bed, I stick a carrier bag by the side.

Toilet if time. Sink if downstairs and can't make it upstairs.

My friend once made the mistake of using a wicker waste paper basket..... apparently it acted like a sieve

@StruggleFlourish
Oh, you have reminded me of regular sickness as a young teen when I first had periods (along with fainting), and then the many times I was sick after too much drink as an older teen. Thank goodness I grew out of both.

I’ve never vomited 🤷‍♀️

I’ve never vomited 🤷‍♀️

Toilet.
But when I was pregnant I would wake up in the night to vomit so kept a special vomit bowl under my bed.

Sick bowl here too.

Downstairs loo then grab the large metal bowl for subsequent throw up

The toilet, usually. I became very familiar with it when I was pregnant

Definitely a toilet , nobody in our house would think to vomit in a sink .

I’d be sick in the toilet. I’m an emetophobe so I don’t want to be faffing about cleaning and unblocking plug holes afterwards.

We do have 3 washing up bowls that are sick bowls from when the kids were little. DS1 had cyclical vomiting syndrome and could be sick up to 40 times a day for a week, so while we’d be cleaning out one bowl he’d be filling another. 🤢

I have vomited 4 times in my life, 3 times in the loo, 1 in a bed.
Last time was in 2008 (loo). Before that, 91 (bed + loo) and 90 (loo). If I had been sick before that, I don't remember.

I am confounded by the parents on here who haven't vomited in years/decades. Please teach me your secrets!

Toilet here. But we also have a few vomit buckets because we all drop like flies from the annual school/nursery sick bug and there's only 1 toilet - and since I also have microscopic colitis, im usually sat on toilet with bucket in hands...

Ds also has the cyclical vomiting, not sure if it's related to infant reflux/cmpa? But he often needs an anti emetic at hospital after we've all stopped vomiting and he's still going days later.

Yes, DS1 always ended up in hospital too. He would vomit blood on a regular basis so after a lot of asking, and me being called a neurotic mother, a paediatric gastroenterologist did an endoscopy and found he had 2 stomach ulcers at the age of 7.

His CVS turned into migraine when he was a teenager, as they thought it would. Now as an adult he doesn’t suffer too badly with his migraines, but if he gets ill with D&V or flu or something he vomits a lot more than we would.

A specific small sick bucket lined ready to go with a pedal bin liner. The reason is I can put the edge of the bucket against between my nose and mouth so I can't see the sick nor can I smell it. The bucket sits against my chest under my chin.

I can then knot the bin bag and it goes into the outside bin, new bin liner in ready to go. No rinsing, no seeing the sick. I hate being sick into a toilet because I can see it and smell it and it somehow makes it a lot worse.

Thanks @TheFairyCaravan I didnt know there was a link with migraine - I guess you cant know what you dont know!

One of my earliest memories of the Tube was a dapper city gent who calmly opened his expensive briefcase, vomited into it, closed it and sat calmly until his stop then strolled off

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A) nearest loo.

I vomit very rarely and I get a sixth sense about it, even before I start to feel properly sick I bleach the loos so I have a clean starting point.

Please note we clean the loos regularly with or without sick.

That is so British. Nothing to see here!

The thought of having my head down a toilet while feeling/ being sick makes me want to die!

Anywhere but a toilet...