To cancel Christmas? We're hosting, DH has Noro

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We have my husband's family due to come over for full whack Christmas dinner tomorrow - hubby came down with d & v, presume norovirus, in the night - DISASTER! I know that realistically I'm going to get it too, should we just cancel now? We have a fridge full of food, booze, the whole lot, I'm so upset ☹️

The problem is that you could be contagious already. You really need to cancel. Sorry.

Cancel.

We all came down with noro before Christmas once. We were 72hrs clear of symptoms and I religiously and obsessively cleaned and bleached the house- every surface, every door handle, everything. Gave our guests the option to cancel due to the bug, or postpone. They wanted to come anyway, they were all travelling hours to stay with us.

Everyone arrived on Christmas Eve evening and by Boxing Day every single guest (6 of them!) was throwing up and really poorly.

It was horrific.

It's just not worth it.

Cancel. Tbh I wouldn't want to go to a house where someone has d&v. Tell them know so they have time to get sorted. Hope you don't get it & hubby gets well soon

You can still be shedding the virus and be contagious up to 10 days later with Noro. We had an out break about 5 years ago all the local pools were closed to super chlorinate, I was pregnant, and one of my kids kept vomiting in their sleep without waking first, horrific is a good description

Absolutely cancel I'd much rather have beans on toast for Christmas dinner than Norovirus. As long as you do it now they can get to the shops and sort themselves out.

Cancel but offer the food for them to prepare themselves

Cancel.

I've had noro and it is hideous. Sitting on the loo and simultaneously puking into a bucket on my knees. There were several times where I was sick on the floor because I couldn't make it to the bathroom in time. You feel utterly horrendous and completely drained as well.

It is such a nasty and debilitating bug and incredibly contagious - please don't give it to your guests.

I would cancel it immediately while they can still go to the shops and buy food and booze for Christmas themself, maybe rearranging for a later date once your sure your both clear.

To be happy honest they wont thank you for it if they get it, I’ve had norovirus and believe me its awful and took me a few days to get over it.

I really feel for you, this is the worst timing

However, i had norovirus a few years ago. I have genuinely never felt so poorly in all my life, i litrally lost control of all my faculties apart from the obvious infection control issues, you really don't want to get struck down with a house full of guests.

It comes on in a flash, i drove home (in my brand new car!) Sat on a pad and spewing in a bucket!

I hope you manage to celebrate xmas

Definitely cancel. This is the exact kind of thing that can spread through food prep too so would put your guests at risk.

You have to cancel :-(

They will still be able to go buy christmas food in the shops today so it’s not a disaster like cancelling tomorrow morning would be

Cancel but offer your guests the food to take to someone else's house to cook. It's not going to be much fun for you op.
It's not inevitable that you'll catch it.. we get at least one person in our house of 5 every year that gets it, we have never all come down with it, usually just one or two.
I'm a nurse and work in hospitals where it's around all the time. Practice good hand hygiene, bleach toilets religiously every time they are used. Throw away any bowls that your DH has been sick in and keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best! 🤞

If family are local suggest they come and take the perishables and sort out Xmas dinner somewhere else.

Yes, cancel, but unless you get on well they will probably think its an excuse.

This happened to me a few years ago. DH and both kids got it (I didn't) so I cancelled. My mum and dad had egg and chips for their Christmas dinner. I had cheese and biscuits.
It was pretty miserable but couldn't be helped.
Hope everyone is better soon.

You have to cancel - I can't believe some people are saying carry on. I'd far rather have toast for Christmas dinner than another round of noro, and they should be able to pick up food in the shops today if you tell them now.

I can honestly say if someone invited me to their noro-covered house without warning me I would not be seeing them again. Someone nearly did just that to me - she cancelled as her DH had to go to hospital - and there's no way I'll be going back in that house as I cannot trust that she'd warn me about exposure before I got there despite knowing I have health problems already.

We had a big family Christmas planned one year. A very kind friend brought round her kids to see us a couple of days before Christmas eve and THEN told us they'd had 'food poisoning' 2 days before. Ds1 starting throwing up on Christmas eve morning. We rang the family straight away but they insisted on coming. My DH was first to start just before we sat down to eat on Christmas day. Then it hit me and ds2 that evening. Boxing day FIL, MIL and BIL were became very ill. My DH was still ill. FIL was ill for about 4 days, horrendously. Friend refused to ever admit it WASNT food poisoning they'd had and because of that, I couldn't ever quite forgive her because of just how many people's Christmas it had ruined.

Cancel, I feel I’ve caught it by just looking at this thread.

Cancel now. It will give them time to get some food together.

I would tell all of the guests. They still have time to buy everything needed for their own Christmas dinner. I would be gutted to go to family without knowing one of them has norovirus, as my immune system is rubbish.

Hope you don't come down with it too OP !

Cancel. I'd be furious and probably wouldn't speak to you again if I arrived for Christmas. I'd leave immediately but would still be panicking in case I caught it.

Is all D&V assumed to be Norovirus nowadays? He could have just eaten something dodgy or have another D&V bug that won’t be as bad as Noro?

Why assume noro? It’s not the only bug? It could be a 24 hour thing and not be that contagious.

DP came down with D&V the day before we hosted a big Easter this year. I felt fine. Called everyone to letting you know, I’m still doing food but you don’t have to come. Everyone came anyway. DP was mostly fine the next day, didn’t keep being sick - I didn’t get sick and no one else did either.

Prometheus exactly! Why do people leap to ‘its got to be the worst possible thing’?