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??

All that plastic in bins just in case? What a bloody waste. What's wrong with throwing up in a bucket or toilet?

It's not something I ever feel the need to prepare for. If it happens, we deal with it. It usually doesn't.

If we have an actual sickness bug we are sick in the toilet or bucket which gets tipped down the toilet and washed with anti bacterial spray in the bath/shower.

We wash our hands.

Disinfect toothbrushes and change them when better.

I think that's it in this house.

I hadn't got sick since l was pregnant 22 years ago until this month. Never gave it one thought. Even through all those years of child rearing. Never worry about a situation until it happens. Then deal with it.
Basic was to live an easier life.

To the person who mentioned breast fed as a reason why their kids don't get sick, my older dd wasn't breast fed and in her nearly 6 years of life has only got a vomiting bug twice despite it doing the rounds twice a year in playschool and primary

I have a sickness phobia too, so I understand OP.

Although I try hard to minimise plastic use the rest of the time, the bag used to line a bucket, bin or bowl idea makes great sense. The bag can simply be tied up and popped in the outside bin.

If someone is sick straight into a bucket or bowl, you have to carry it through the house and will spread particles when you tip it down the loo. You can rinse the bucket with bleach/disinfectant but what do you wipe/dry it with? Or do you just carry it back through the house dripping? The less contact with the vomit, the less pouring and flushing, the less chance of spreading the germs.

For us, a lined bowl is always kept under my DD's bed and there's bleach in the kitchen cupboard (not used at other times). I don't wear a mask or gloves as I don't want the DC to inherit my phobia.

We have a dedicated 'chuck it bucket' that's an old washing up bowl. Put some towels down and then bleach the toilet and washbasin after use.

Our is referred to as 'the bowl of doom'... like I said, I'm trying not to let my issues affect my children :)

Have some old towels I keep for emergencies
Sick basin (old washing up bowl)
Bottle of bleach in bathrooms

That's it

I just have one liner in the bin usually, but when IT strikes, I line it with 3 or so, so I don’t have to start faffing about for the next episode. Just take out the used one, and we’re goid to go.
Side note, the only household cleaner that actually KILLS norovirus, and other tummy bugs, is bleach. Dettol etc doesn’t touch it, as the virus has a ‘hard outer’ that can’t be broken by dettol.
I’ve done my research. Yes I have a phobia

All we do here is wash our hands after cleaning up any sick or emptying a bucket. No bleach, no mask, no gloves.. My DCs will sometimes pick up a bug from school, but me and DH very rarely catch it. The last time I can remember was 4 years ago.

I think it's got way, way more to do with your immune system whether or not you catch, I'm pretty sure we are surrounded by various cold and sick bugs every day which we do not catch. Our bodies are and should be strong!

I hope you’re getting significant help for your phobia, rather than just trying to get others to colude with you that how you’re feeling and behaving about it all is ‘normal’?

We hardly ever get d&v bugs so I don't have any plans in place.

I’m in a much better place than I used to be. I couldn’t go near my kids if they were ill. Was very much a ‘fight or flight’ response, and I’d always flee!
I never even used to be able to say the word ‘bucket’ as it instilled horror in me. So now, I’m just prepared, so that if it does happen, I’m ready. And I don’t have to be in much contact with it and can try and stop it spreading.
It’s only my oldest that knows about my phobia. The others don’t.
I have the masks in the house(bought off eBay) but have never actually used them.
Antidepressants have helped me hugely

Don’t do anything. We have antibac and bleach in the house, and plastic buckets available for actual sick.

I have this phobia. I have it severely and could quite easily become agoraphobic.

I am under the GP care and will get there eventually.

There isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about this and for me , it is all about drumming in the hand washing.
I also never ever feed my children straight from school. We are ten minutes drove so once they are home and hands are washed , then they eat.

I also give them multivitamins, probiotics and am immune support tonic daily. They eat an amazing diet as well.

I hear you with this op.

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It's not something I ever think about.

I'm glad you're getting help for your phobia.

Crikey - I've never thought about preparing in such a way for such an infrequent occurrence!
I would grab a bucket and some disinfectant if the worse happens. No need for gloves, aprons, masks and all that nonsense.

I hope you get help for your phobia and don't pass on your anxiety to your children 

My family all came down with Norovirus recently. It was basically 24 hours of hell and no cleaning and then 2 hours of dettol all surfaces, bleach loo and a few washes in the washing machine - job done.

I think the anxiety / stress caused by trying to not get sick isn't worth it to be honest.

But it's much more than 24 hours of hell if a whole family go down with it, one by one. That hell could go on for over a week!
I know I'm weird about this, but surely no one wants that? If you can increase your chances of avoiding it, why wouldn't you?

My DC are in their teens now, so generally it's less of an issue. sick bugs are much less of a thing for them generally.

I do however have an emergency sick bucket under my bed at all times. This means that if I hear that wail in the middle of the night I can deal with it half asleep.

In the past, if one of them had a bug, I'd give them said sick bucket to sleep with and cover their pillows and duvet with a towel.

The key is to make sure you have a receptacle for sick to hand at all times!

Ps - someone once gave me the tip of keeping old ice cream containers with their lids for car journeys. As a parent of two dc who were horribly car sick, this was a game changer!

I work in a hospital so bugs are fairly rife but definitely not prepared to this level... is good hand hygiene and detol spray on surfaces and handles last thing at night preparation?

i don't think it's obsessive tbh, the amount of times when ours were little and we were caught off guard.
Sometimes there is no pre warning of them feeling ill.

I wouldn't have bleach in a bottle though, surely you'd be better with disinfectant for the germs, like Zoflora or Dettol.
The former being my choice as I love the rose fragrance.

I get it too OP.

I am not phobic about it, but after bringing up two dc who puked for England (thank you, travel sickness) I understand the need to be organised. Just from a practical point of view, sick is an absolute bugger to clean up.