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Vomiting bug, what now

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ShamalaHamala · 11/12/2021 22:04

We have just travelled 8+ hours to visit family and stay with them for a week.
More family arrived today, to stay in the same house as us. One of them was sick yesterday but has come anyway. Another one of them has just been very sick now.
What do we do?

I don't want to do another very long car journey home having just arrived, I don't want my family going down with it just in time for traveling home, and I don't want to have to cancel all my plans while I'm here.
Argh!

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Sometimeswinning · 12/12/2021 00:56

Really? My child had a tummy bug. No one panicked or moved out. A week later none of us have caught said bug, noroviros or covid. All of you need to calm down.

I'd personally make a decision by myself and not ask mumsnet. I once asked mumsnet. It's a worst case scenario type thing!

Sometimeswinning · 12/12/2021 01:04

I'm sorry to say but norovirus is one of the most infectious viruses around - virtually impossible to be around someone with it and not catch it and it lives on surfaces etc. There's no immunity - in fact if you've had it before you're more likely to get it again. Best thing you can do is get home before it kicks in, it incubates for 12-48 hours.

See 🤷‍♀️

itwasntaparty · 12/12/2021 01:23

Projectile vomiting is Noro or similar not a tummy bug. I'd be out of there op.

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ShamalaHamala · 12/12/2021 04:34

For anyone following my nightmare, we have packed up the car and are running away home. We agreed we'd much rather be ill at home.
It's definitely noro, the coverage of the projectile was very impressive! This ain't no wimpy little tummy bug Sad
Thank you to everyone that has helped me feel like I'm not over reacting.

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5keletor · 12/12/2021 04:38

I'd leave as soon as I could, to be honest. However a few months I had what I think was norovirus - almost constant D&V - and no-one else in the house caught it. Not my partner who was in the same bed, or either child.

LowlyTheWorm · 12/12/2021 04:38

Oh God. I have anxiety in your behalf now OP. Well done for escaping and I have everything crossed for you to have managed to avoid the pukefest. If not- at least it will all be over by Xmas! 😬

5keletor · 12/12/2021 04:40

@ShamalaHamala

For anyone following my nightmare, we have packed up the car and are running away home. We agreed we'd much rather be ill at home. It's definitely noro, the coverage of the projectile was very impressive! This ain't no wimpy little tummy bug Sad Thank you to everyone that has helped me feel like I'm not over reacting.
Sounds like a bit of a nightmare for you but glad you've escaped it! I would have done the same, you might have been okay but definitely not worth risking if you can avoid it.
BrilliantBetty · 12/12/2021 04:40

Good idea leaving quickly.
How stupid of them coming knowing they likely had a tummy bug.

blueluce85 · 12/12/2021 04:44

Really hope you guys don't end up with it. That's so selfish of them!

Totalwasteofpaper · 12/12/2021 04:47

Correct decision.
Hope you haven't caught it.

Very thoughtless of them to come when poorly.

Cheerbear24 · 12/12/2021 09:36

Good decision OP.
Even before this covid era I absolutely hated it when people selfishly inflicted their germs on others, rather than just accept they are ill/infectious and stay away.

YetAnotherManicMonday1234 · 12/12/2021 09:44

Good decision. Fingers crossed you’ll be fine. Bags for life at the ready for the car journey, I hooked one over the back of the front seats headrest for DS when he projectile vomited everywhere on a trip two hours from home. Worked very well, but so grim.

user1471538283 · 12/12/2021 09:45

I really hope you have escaped it. I've had Noro and gastroenteritis and I couldnt think for vomiting. I was sick for days.

I cannot believe that people would do this! When I had both I insisted that no one came to see me.

RoseRedRoseBlue · 12/12/2021 09:58

Good luck and keep us posted!

MamanSparkles · 12/12/2021 10:11

Oh no hope you escape it OP. People who share vomiting bugs make me livid.

LakieLady · 12/12/2021 10:20

I'd run like the wind, OP. Book a Travel Lodge, Air BNB, room in a pub, anything to minimise your exposure, and just hope it's not too late.

CorsicaDreaming · 12/12/2021 10:26

@ShamalaHamala - I am still trying to get over how incredibly selfish the other members of the family were to come when they already had someone being so sick before they travelled…

I do hope you are all okay and managed to get out without getting infected - And there aren't any elderly relatives still left in the house with the sick ones.

Latte40 · 12/12/2021 10:36

Sorry but one gathering a few years ago, out of 14 of us, 11 were struck down - one after another. It was hideous. I was one of the ones that escaped getting ill but had to do all of the cleaning and caring duties. We definitely should have turned around and gone home when the first person thought they had 'a funny tummy from last nights takeaway'...

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ShamalaHamala · 12/12/2021 10:38

We are about half way home, have stopped a couple of times for coffee and toilets etc but I'm being so bloody strict about touching things and keeping masks on etc.
No one has complained of feeling sick yet but I think we are best to tuck ourselves away for 48 hours.
God I hope we've managed to miss it, but I'm not sure we are that lucky.

What a shitshow.
The family who brought the vomit do feel awful, I do see why they came, they were so excited about a family catch up after so much time apart, but I'm so sad I'm not able to see my friends now. I feel quite grumpy about the whole thing, but I'm really glad we made the decision to leave!

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OnlyHereForTheClothes · 12/12/2021 10:59

Op, once I had what I am pretty sure was noro. It was a really quick onset vomiting bug where I was sick every hour all night and most of the following day. I caught it off my brother's family who also passed it to my gran, who passed it to my cousin and her family. It was really contagious.

Anyway, I managed to isolate myself in one floor of the house and I bleached the fuck out of everything. Managed to not pass it to my dc or dh. So sometimes you do get away away it! Fingers crossed that's the case for you.

Sorry about missing out on seeing friends though. That sucks!

CorsicaDreaming · 12/12/2021 11:06

Fingers crossed for you.

This whole Christmas is just lining up to be a(nother) shit show.
Talk about Groundhog Day 😬

It just feels like it's one thing after the other at the moment....

Plutonium7000 · 12/12/2021 22:46

Not an over reaction, in your shoes I'd have done the same thing. Years ago I shared a holiday house with friends and kids. One of the kids started being sick right at the beginning and it made its way round most people. Not everyone got it (so you might be ok!) but nearly everyone did and it was grim tbh. If I was ever in that position again I'd leave like you did!!

Hope you all stay well, let us know!

DrinkFeckArseBrick · 12/12/2021 23:46

I think you've done the right thing OP.

I'd stock up on a load of rehydration sachets, bleach, rubber gloves, masks, paracetamol, buckets and bland food though just in case!

justasking111 · 12/12/2021 23:54

Definitely the buckets, and bleach the heck out of everything. I recall son walking into our bedroom saying he felt sick as I shouted toilet he erupted floor, dressing table, bathroom door all spattered from a few feet away 🙈

herewegoOVERANDOVERagain · 13/12/2021 00:03

Definitely the right decision. I also cannot fathom why a family with a recent pulse would decide to travel to stay at someone else's house?!

Anyway, I hope you got home ok and that you all remain vom free 🤞🏼

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