Christmas visitors and bugs

[Pinkpeanut27]

Ok I'm freaking out just had a call to say one of my Xmas guests who is currently on holiday has gone down with terrible d and v which they are putting down to some vegetable soup . They come Xmas eve .
AIBU to say they need to be 48 hours clear before they come ?
We are going away on 27 th so getting sick would spoil it . I have 3 kids and we are all going to be bunched up sharing rooms and the bathroom .

Agreeing with expatinscotland. Would you want to infect them all? Wouldn't you feel guilty? I don't understand the torn as I would decline to go myself regardless of where it was.

There is a lot of misinformation on this thread. Nuro has specific symptoms and it’s fairly easy to spot actually.

It’s certainly not 90% of D&V bugs and doesn’t need a swab to confirm. You just need to know what you’re looking for.

I have had this sickness bug and it is awful. My son caught it but not my daughters or hubby.

I personally wouldn't be putting my host on the spot by making the decision, it would polite for the guests to say they won't come and risk spreading their germs. You shouldn't have to say.

It's bad timing and a shame but if they know you are going away and have 3 small children, that is the right thing for them to do.

If you feel awkward asking them not to come, could you tell a white lie and say one of you is also ill??!!

We went on a friends reunion some years ago. Hired a house. 21 of us including children and babies. One child (son of a GP) had been sick and had diarrhoea on the Friday we all met up there so came on the Saturday. I airily asked when his last symptoms were (yesterday) They arrived on the Saturday. All said a loving farewell after huge Sunday lunch the next day. Dd1 (5) starting projectile vomiting on the way home and continued until the next morning (hideously ill). I started it at 10pm that night. DS1 started it in the morning.Dd2 started it at 2pm and Dh started it at 6pm on the Monday night.
None of the 21 people didn't get it. One couple had to cancel a flight on the Monday and 2 children were hospitalised for dehydration.
Mushroom soup this is not!.
Cancel.Cancel. Cancel.

You have no idea whether it’s soup or not, and one incident you had years ago makes no bearing on whether it is or not either

CAn I just say that despite my horror at the situation I was looking to find out when she was better and then apply the 48 hour rule despite my hatered of the idea I couldn't justify not inviting her . We explained what we were asking and why and she just said it was the soup full stop and she'd go somewhere else .
I think I have a right to ask being as I live in total fear of the bug hitting us . And she should have been more understanding. All she had to do was confirm she was symptom free and then I would have left it as such .
I do know I'm a bit unusual

cherrycokewinning

Please see the following link to a journal of medicine which confirms that norovirus is responsible for 90% of outbreaks of gastroenteritis:

You’ll find it under the section “epidemiology and transmission.”

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880795/

Whether it was or wasn't it's irrelevant. They are not coming now so relax and enjoy your Christmas and your holiday.

Thanks boardwalk but I’m not reading a science paper on a Saturday night ta.

However if you think a science paper can explain the cause of 90% of D&V you’re deluded. I had D yesterday morning FFS- miraculously unrecorded by scientists

YANBU.

Having just kindly received a bout of d&v off a friend in return for hosting a Christmas gathering, I would recommend burning any cards and gifts off them too.
The d&v hit us consecutively and lasted over a week and a half. I had politely informed attendees (one with newborn) we all had cough/cold and would not be upset if they bowed out. (I suspect it is the same 'friends' whose 2yo daughter had d&v when they were hosting a summer bbq. These same friends would drink tapwater from a camping toilet block which was collected off the roof and upon which warning signs were in place about a norovirus outbreak!)

I've been ruthless with this since my twins were born but one of them would need to be admitted to hospital if he had a gastric bug so I can't be too careful.

I've visited family without kids when I've had colds, as long as they're okay with it, but I would never ever take bugs info a house with kids, especially at Christmas. We had family visiting a few weeks ago, they brought a bug, and it ended up with all four of us being very ill for a week, then the twins getting ear infections and one getting bronchiolitis again. Grr.