How do you ready yourself for a sickness bug

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Wondered how/if you have strategies in place for if/when your DC or yourself become ill with sickness bugs.
I have bin liners in all the bins in our bedrooms(normal) and a roll of spare liners so I can just throw away the contents and hopefully contain the germs.
Here’s where it gets a bit odd... I have a pre-made bleach solution in a spray bottle, a pack of disposable gloves in our bedroom and surgical face masks for cleanups, so I don’t breathe in the particles of puke!
Anyone else a total nut job or AIBU??

Do you get I'll a lot?

*ill a lot.

Not especially. I worry about it a lot though! Can you tell?!

You sound obsessive, do you suffer from a phobia of sick or similar?

Yes

I don't believe bleach solution (made yourself) keeps long at all. I prefer Nilco Antibacterial sanitiser one of the few things that will kill c-diff. Its a sporicidal too, kills a host of viruses and works in 60 seconds unlike Dettol sprays.

We always have gloves, med wipes, aprons, masks, couch roll and puppy pads around since a medical crisis a few years ago, and I keep the same stock now.

A notebook for recording temperatures, SPO2, blood pressure, and symptoms is also very helpful.

I keep ice pops in the freezer and rehydration salts. Also like the Kool n soothe patches, and of course painkillers.

I pop on plastic gloves if I'm actually clearing up sick, but not so much of the rest.

I am in the middle of a vomiting bug, my twin toddlers have it, and you sound waaay more organized than me.

I have a basin and a bucket that I just rinse into the loo, and loads of kitchen paper/baby wipes to wipe mouths and hands. Plenty of clean sheets and spare pillows on standby. And a bottle of water each for them.

I have done 536 loads of washing since the weekend, and have about 200 more loads waiting to go in.

Good luck!

That all sounds pretty awesome with preparation. I really feel dread about the children getting sick, can't bear breathing in my son's (my daughter doesn't upset me at all in comparison), and loathe all the scrubbing and cleaning! When the bugs come, I need this level of strategy!

We all have plastic bins that can double up as buckets. And disinfectant in the bathroom.

I have a first aid kit that includes re hydration therapy, hand cleanser, and clean buckets stored ready to be placed by the bed. By clean I mean they don't have any odour. There are some smells that make me feel more ill. We have other stuff lying around like old towels, bin liners and orange oil cleaner.
The puppy pads are a good idea.

The face masks are a great idea actually! Most sickness viruses spread by inhaling droplets of vomit so a mask makes sense.
I also spray all the door handles, bathroom floors and toilets with dettol. Chuck bicarbonate of soda on vomit on hard surfaces!

Keep probiotics in the house to help rebalance tummies after.

With vomiting when my kids were little I used to place a stack of towels under them at night- so if they vomited in bed the towels would soak it up and much easier to clean up than changing Sheets constantly.
Also good to place under them if they are lying on couch

My DC are now teenagers - so (a) don't tend to get sickness bugs, and (b) get to the toilet in time.

But when they were small, if one child was sick I'd sweep around all of their rooms removing all the clean bedding I store under beds, and soft toys from beds. There's nothing worse than a child vomiting over 23 soft toys (6 of which are not machine-washable), and all of their spare duvet covers. Not to mention the princess canopy hanging down the side of their bed.

And I don't know why I struck out 'all' .

I have a bowl and a bottle of dettol under the bathroom sink and I also keep a pack of sheet, blanket, duvet cover and duvet in a bag in the linen closet after a night 4 years ago where my son and I had to huddle under a thin sheet.

Bin liners- for sick??😨
Flush down the loo, rinse out and down the loo again. Spray with a decent antibacterial including the loo and ready to go again.

Although, I now encourage my kids to at least try and make it to the loo to be sick, which isn't very often than goodness!

Oh yes- and as a PP said- get children to sleep on towels if they're poorly, just incase a bit goes on the bed, rather boil towels than clean a mattress and all bedding constantly.

Most families get sickness bugs so infrequently it may be worth a trip to your gp. To see why you are getting so sick and to treat your anxiety.

My dh brings about 9 bugs into our house every year. Maybe more. He's always getting them.
So far we have never caught one.
I put it down to
-the kids being breast fed so protected there
-isolating him straight away. All tissues in bed and clothed & bedding on hot washes. Windows all open. Surfaces disinfected.

We've not caught one yet.

We are not as organised here although I'm considering a dedicated sick bucket after reading this

A couple of years ago my son was potty training he tried to vomit in the toilet but reached his potty first so he threw up in that I thought it was pretty smart of him

I've got an old ice cream bowl under the sink for anyone to be sick into, so I

.... throw it away. Sorry phone playing up

No particular prep here but we are lucky to have 2 loos and I always isolate one for whoever is being ill and everyone else uses the other. Then thoroughly clean it when they've stopped with the d&v.