... to be miffed that dh used the sink to vomit in rather than the toilet

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Dh was taken ill in the night - possibly food poisoning, needed to vomit twice.

Don't get me wrong I was sympathetic at the time and this morning told him not to worry I'd bleach the loo, give the toilet a wipe down with antiseptic etc ..... but then he tells me the sink might need the same treatment because the first time he was sick he used the sink.

Why would you do that? When there is a perfectly good toilet? Stupid - right?

Well, it is certainly interesting to see some posters with distinct sink preferences. I get that the toilet seems a bit icky when being sick, but then I don't like the idea of someone vomiting in the place where I brush my teeth ....plus the sink isn't designed for dealing with 'chunks'

For the record, I didn't tear a strip off dh for using the sink - just articulated my mild dismay!

maybe the sink was right in front of him as the sick was coming out, happened to me plenty of times it’s not a big deal it’s a sink and not worth a post about

Ugh super gross

I'm sick a LOT. Have never needed to be sick in the sink rather than the toilet when it is coming from one end only.

Unless you have a rancid dirty house the toilet isn't unclean is it?

Well I have to agree Whitehorse - I did try and dissuade him

"and not worth a post about" - well I will be sure to check with you first before posting lumleyy

No, its pretty clean SilverSpot - am quite particular about kitchens and bathrooms (not so much the rest of the house)

I did that once when I had D&V, there was absolutely no way I was going to make it to the toilet.

I was sick in my bathroom sink once and it totally blocked up, wouldn't rinse down the plughole, so I ended up having to scoop it all out into a bowl then flush it down the loo, then had to unscrew the waste trap and clean that out too ... I now keep a bowl in the bathroom for 'both enders'.

I would always clean up after my DH in such circumstances, simply because I know he would not clean wide enough and thoroughly enough.

Last time he was ill, he also managed to use the sink. I was deservedly unsympathetic because it was red wine induced and the bathroom looked like there had been a massacre. He got up the next morning and apologised profusely and went to clean up. I had already bleached the entire room at 2am as I didn't want the DC in there the next morning wondering what had happened. He was mortally ashamed.

I would do the same if it was through illness. He is not some sort of incompetent. He does more housework than I do. It's just the kind thing to do, to clean up after someone who is ill, rather than expect them to do a thorough job while holding back their nausea.

My upstairs toilet is broken and doesn't flush, but the sink has a 'drainhole' rather than a plughole, so I tend to use that.

Plus, as an emetophobe, it's easier for me to use the sink, because I can rinse it all down without having to stand and stare at it, as is the case with the loo, when trying to flush it. It goes all up the sides of the toilet and under the rim, whereas in the sink I can aim at the hole and kind of rinse afterwards to get rid of it (with my eyes shut, usually).

Hmm, I've usually made it to the loo tbf, but perhaps he just couldn't.
You aren't being either.
Stay clear of him though if he has the lurgy.

Thank you for that BadgersBum that's rather a persuasive argument in favour of team toilet

You're very welcome and I hope everyone enjoys their lunch!

YANBU sinks aren’t designed to get rid of anything solid And vomit can just sit in the u bend. My friend will only ever be sick in the sink (comes from childhood puking tradition) and ended up with a plumber round as the vomit had blocked the ubend and pipes. Toilets are designed for flushing away waste like this

On the rare occassions I vomit I use the sink. Not to put it bluntly, Im not putting my face anywhere near where you've defecated.

I was sick in my bathroom sink once and it totally blocked up, wouldn't rinse down the plughole, so I ended up having to scoop it all out into a bowl then flush it down the loo, then had to unscrew the waste trap and clean that out too ... I now keep a bowl in the bathroom for 'both enders'.

Oh god, worst nightmare!

I tend to think that as long as sick is not going all over soft furnishings, anything else is a bonus. Of all options, toilet is clearly the best but when about to vomit, many people are not clear-thinking.

I hit the sink in the gents loos at a railway station a few years ago. No way i was going to make it as far as either the ladies or a loo.

Not to put it bluntly, Im not putting my face anywhere near where you've defecated.

But there isn't defecation in the toilet at the time you go to be sick is there? There is just clean water. There isn't inherently anything dirty about a toilet UNLESS YOU DON'T CLEAN IT.

If you follow your logic then how can you brush your teeth where you have been sick in the sink. Be case the sick germs never go....

I'd definitely put a bottle of drain blocker down the sink, STAT.

I'm with OP on this one. Fucking disgusting puking in a sink. No excuse for it seeing as the room you've puked in has a toilet too and probably within a foot of the sink. He obviously made it to the bathroom so hardly projectile so he should and puked in the loo and not the sink.

HIBVU (a) to have gone to work to spread his bug around, and (b) to expect you to be fishing chunks out of the plughole. Hope all the members of Team Sink will at least concede that adults should clean up their own vomit.

I would always clean up after my DH in such circumstances, simply because I know he would not clean wide enough and thoroughly enough.

Sounds the very definition of incompetent to me...

I've puked in the sink. Especially when pregnant and trying to cook. I've thrown up in bins at work too while pregnant. I do generally try to get to a toilet but needs must sometimes.

If it's chunky, then it might have blocked the sink. For that reason alone, yanbu.

Plus the person who puked, clears it up, when adult.