child being sick on the train

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We took DS to london on Sunday. There was a family sitting in the next seat, Mum, Dad and 2 DCs aged about 5 and 6. From their conversation we realised they were going to the NH museum... same as us... and we thought it was really funny.

The little girl said she had a tummy ache. The Dad said, 'Oh you'll be fine. I'm sure you won't be sick again' (wishful thinking). Anyway, eventually she started crying so the mum said she'd take her to the loo. We heard a lot more pained crying from the other end of the carriage then they came back and the mum said that the loos were locked. I can only imagine where the poor little girl had been sick. About half an hour later she started crying again so the mum took her back to wherever she'd been sick before. When they came back she was white and shaky and lolling all over the mum. We got to Victoria and off they trotted to the tube station.

AIBU in thinking that if you plan to go somewhere nice and your DD is ill, you postpone? If the mum or dad had woken up and been sick, would they have forced themselves out of bed, into the cold, and trudged round the museum having to stop to be sick every half an hour?

Hoists judgy pants. I know it's none of my business really. I was just a bit shocked.

My youngest DD spews every train and bus and car journey. We're prepared for it though and bring a sick bowl and wipes. She's as right as rain as soon as we get off' even though she's been quite ill while travelling.

I was going up north for my baby cousin's funeral. I had to take dd2 (15 months) At Coventry she was sick. Completely out of the blue, she'd been totally happy before. I assumed it was travel sickness (as dd1 had started at that age). However she then proceeded to be sick about every 5 minutes from Coventry to Leeds.

I had very little option what to do other than carry on. I was a long way from home at Coventry, timewise nearly half way there. if I'd got off, I would have had to work out how to get back with her throwing up round the station, and get back on another train, and bus at home again.

Actually people were lovely. Guard appeared with bottled water, dry biscuits, towels etc. for her at regular intervals, and people round us were really nice about it.

And the being sick beforehand-I used to do that with travelsickness. In fact I was more often sick in anticipation than actually during the journey. Strange.

YANBU.

It doesn't sound like travel sick, it sounds like a bug. This is why I avoid public transport at all costs, Because of stupid selfish people like this.

I used to get horrible travel sickness - never got a stomach ache with it though, just terrible nausea followed by vomiting. If it was a stomach bug, then YANBU - the thought of dragging a sick children into London on public transport wouldn't even occur to me. If it was travel sickness (and I don't believe it was) then they should have come prepared - as anyone who is prone to travel sickness would normally do.

Slightly OT but those of you who find that pills don't work or have side effects, have you tried travel bands? A friend at school used to swear by them, she said pills stopped her being sick, the bands stopped her feeling sick.

I would have been annoyed at the dad. If I said that I felt ill and the person in charge of my welfare dismissed me and said "Oh I'm sure you'll be fine" I would probably have puked in their lap to prove my point.
We were hardy children growing up and minor grazes and bumps were treated with brisk efficiency and jollying, but if any of us felt genuinely pukey or stomach achey, we got sympathy and gentleness from both parents and-by example- the unafflicted siblings. It's one of the little things that I remember with gratitude about my childhood.
This attitude also prevails anywhere I have worked in adult life - if anyone at work is feeling awful they get offered paracetamol, tea, water, extra help with their work to help them through the day and even sometimes a lift home if they need to bail out early (if this happens somebody can usually stay on to cover their work). Dunno if this is cos I've always worked in vet practices and we have sympathy with the afflicted of all species, but I would consider it fairly normal behaviour. I think children deserve to be treated in a similar way.

My child was unexpectedly ill on the train to London, the tilting Virgin one. We managed to grab one of the paper bags that they supply in the seat pocket and she promptly vomitted into it. Then we learn that these are NOT sick bags and it started to disintegrate.

Cue hurried bundling of child into toilet who managed to make it to the toilet bowl before being sick again. Meanwhile the bag of sick completely disintegrated whilst it was being held over the sink. A paltry stream of water from the sink meant that it wouldn't wash down despite our best efforts with a bottle of Evian.

We immediately set off to find a member of staff to inform them that there had been an unfortunate vomitting incident and that the toilet needed cleansing. TWO and a half hours later a train attendant came along and locked the toilet without putting up an Out of Order sign so that people kept queuing up outside thinking that someone was in there. In the interim we had to put up with fellow passengers coming back from the toilet saying "Urgh I can't believe that someone has been sick in the sink - how scummy is that?!"

I feel sorry for emetophobes but a child can't help being sick and travel sickness can come from nowhere - we had no idea our child would be travel sick so were completely unprepared.

Feel sorry for ubik1 with her 3 kids vomitting on the train! I hope you were met with more sympathy then some of the posters on here have given you who seem to find that "disgusting" Did you hook plastic nosebags over their ears for the return journey

I'm severely sick phobic, i would have escaped out of the train carriage after the first episode of sick... out of the window if the sick been blocking the corridor!

I can drive as far as you like,but the minute I am a passenger, I suffer travel sickness,whether in a car,bus,train or boat. (I've only been on a plane twice,and was fine with that)

Whenever we go on school trips,by coach, I always have to take travel sickness pills. Its hard enough that I feel rough, let alone looking after a classfull of travel-sick children!

I'm really not good with other peoples's sickness. But if it is my own children - no problem!

Maybe it was travel sickness and they didn't have sick bags as they thought they could use the train loo if she was actually physically sick?

I would not have been happy either does sound more like a bug than travel sickness. I would have had to go and sit well away as am also emetophobic. Always worse in places you can't escape from. Poor child though, bad enough feeling sick without being stuck on a long train journey.
I always thought trains were the least likely form of transport to make you sick but obviously am wrong reading this thread. I have feel very nauseous on coach and car journeys on long winding welsh roads but am fine on straight roads or motorways. One travel pill that def works is studgerone it contains an anti histamine. I only developed travel sickness later in my life on think it might have been after I had my son not sure why that would be? Its usually something you grow out of!