Took my mask off on the aeroplane AIBU

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I was on a 5-hour flight recently alone with my two kids under 3. I once every few years might suffer from travel sickness and unfortunately on this day it was the worst I've ever had. I believe it may have been caused by having to wear the mask on the aeroplane. I used 20+ sickbags and felt better during the last hour (vomited for 4 hours, 5th hour was better).
I felt really bad but after I started vomiting I couldn't physically put my mask on because I couldn't breath and it made me gag. The air stewards were furiously coming and telling me to put my mask on every 5-10 mins. I had tears in my eyes during all of this and to be honest I can't comprehend how little compassion they had. They kept coming until I firmly said I would be putting my mask on when I felt better. I was keeping my distance from everyone and had no one sitting in front of me, behind or next to me (apart from my children). I didn't have a fever and it had I had been checked before boarding the plane. AIBU to think there was no reason to harrass me while I was throwing up with my face in a bag? Are you scared of people who don't wear masks? Would you go up to someone ill and tell them to put their mask on?

These YouTube videos made by a respiratory consultant explain how Covid can be spread on planes and also how masks can greatly reduce spread, so the crew have good reason to ask passengers to wear masks.

Having no fever is also not a guarantee of not having Covid and as nausea and vomiting is also a symptom maybe that has increased the concern?

I know right @OwlBeThere 😱

I wondered when you’d pop up @Hearhoovesthinkzebras 😂😂

Even if you only get sick sometimes you should have been prepared. I think the only thing you could have done was take you 13 month old to the toilet with you as gross as that would be. You can't take your mask off during a pandemic. You knew this was a possibility.

They can ask but they can also use their common sense 🙄

@Rhine what do you mean? 2 of my children suffer from travel sickness. Sometimes they are fine, others they are not. I myself once vomited through a 20 hour bus ride and then never had it again for 12 years when again I was horribly sick. Of course you can have intermittent travel sickness!

@Josette77 so people taking their mask off to eat and drink is fine?

You can take your mask off, some people don’t even have to wear them at all.

Real travel sickness doesn't only happen once every 5 years.
Was the flight unusually turbulent?

If you genuinely do suffer from travel sickness then you wouldn’t only get it every few years...
That's rubbish I get it occasionally , the mask probably didn't help the op too .

If it wasn’t travel sickness then all the more reason to be sympathetic...unless you are implying the OP is lying.

@PablosHoney

I wondered when you’d pop up *@Hearhoovesthinkzebras* 😂😂

Oh sorry if my opinion on someone potentially aerosolising Covid throughout an entire aircraft offends you.

out of interest
are you pregnant or do you have a sinus or ear problem or bad hay fever at the moment
if not pregnant ask dr for decongestant if your ear/nose are blocked (I use to get car sick for this reason - & try one of those pressure bands on wrists or ginger capsules

I wonder why the OP has only posted this now? How ‘recently’ did it happened?

This is MN.

You're going to be told you're highly irresponsible, have probably infected 2030309495953 people with Covid for not wearing a mask while puking, and that the stewardesses should have pushed you out the door mid flight for not wearing a Government regulation mask. And you shouldn't have been travelling in a pandemic because we're all going to die and you should be staying at home for the next 15 years minimum.

You couldn't help it. People are just arseholes at times

Christ, the lack of sympathy on here is astounding.

What should OP have done? Just vomited into her face mask? Honestly. Get a grip.

Did I say I was offended 😊 I just saw a mask thread and was wondering how long it would take you, that’s all.

Oh bless you. That sounds awful. If I'd been near you I'd probably have offered to have the baby or entertain your older one and left you to get on with it.

If it was obvious you were being sick then I'm not sure what the cabin crew expected you to do. Yes, it increased the risk to everyone else on the plane, but it was hardly deliberate. It isn't like you got on the plane with a sickness bug!

Wow, that flight sounds horrendous for everyone. I would have been barfing along with you if I’d had to witness it.

I get travel sick in all modes of transport except trains, but I start feeling sick long before I’m actually sick, and if I take a Kwells as soon as I feel sick, it works within 20 minutes, and I don’t get to actually vomiting. I can’t believe you let yourself carry on vomiting in the seats for four hours! Don’t you pack travel sickness tablets for your children in case they need them?

And of course your mask didn’t make you vomit. It doesn’t affect your inner ear!

@mumwon thanks for the advice I will look into the pressure bands and ginger capsules. Not pregnant and no hay fever

Well if you get sick at the sight of people being sick you should never go out 😉 see how stupid that is..

You should wear a mask unless medically exempt. My interpretation would be travel sickness is a medical exemption when you're heading to the throwing up stage then trying to recover. Unfortunately people are not robots, we don't always know when travel sickness will hit. I'm fine most of the time but occasionally it comes over you nd you're left to cope. There are genuine reasons why people struggle with masks, sadly the people that can't be arsed make it hard for the ones who do have a valid reason.

@dotdashdashdash thanks @AdoptAdaptImprove
Thanks I will look into that.

Wow some of you are horrible and nuts!

The OP was being sick for 4 hours whilst trying to juggle 2 young children on her own.

Can you imagine how it would feel having a mask on when you were being constantly sick.

And this is why I won’t fly for a long time I think.
Not being critical of you personally op - you were vomiting ffs - but bloody hell it does make you think !