Does your vomit bowl have an alternative use?

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I'm clearing out my mums house, and I've found the glow in the dark Halloween pumpkin bowl that was dragged out every bug to be used as a vom bowl.

I always thought at Halloween the sweets that went in the big glow in the dark pumpkin bowl went into another one that we just didn't see?

Nope. I asked my dad. They just disinfected the vomit bowl a few times and stuck halloween sweets in it. I've eaten popcorn from that bowl!!

What the fuck? I feel so violated!!

If someone has Norovirus (which causes 90% of contagious vomiting) and vomits, the vomit contains highly contagious norovirus particles, which can then spread to other people's hands/food and make them sick too (there are millions of viral particles in one lot of vomit and it takes 10-20 viral particles to make someone ill).

Washing up bowl. Can't be mistaken for a mixing bowl or popcorn bowl or anything else it is very definitely a washing up bowl that you'd put in a sink or under the sink with gloves and cloths in.

It lives in the kids' bedroom. I find that's where it's most likely to be needed and can be grabbed easily or they can be put to bed with it by their side.

We did have a Halloween bowl for a while but I couldn't cope with the thought that a babysitter might not realise what it was for and use it for popcorn (this is so unlikely it's ridiculous, my babysitters are usually my parents and turn up after my kids are in bed but YOU NEVER KNOW)

Yes and the airborne particles mean that if you live in the same house you will get it, whether they yacked up in a bucket, washing up bowl or simply on the carpet. It also means that a good clean and time (coupled with the short term immune resistance) will not reinfect anyone. So I am failing to see your point as long as you follow good hygiene and dont send the kids to school, dont go to work and odnt allow anyone into your home while you are infectious.

As a child... yeah I suspect it was the mixing bowl/cake bowl or whatever mother could grab if I wasn't near a bathroom.

In the car, we had old margerine tubs, the big square catering sized ones. I was sick in the car a lot, twice a weekend if we were going to Wales in the car for the weekend (so all through spring/summer/autumn).

Here, it's an old mixing bowl that is now just for vomming into but sometimes we have to use whatever there is, as I am sick fairly often and with very little warning and not able to zoom to the bathroom upstairs and OH often can't find the designated sick bowl! Tis then generally a bucket which we have lots of, or occasionally the dogs water bowl (a washing up bowl!) if I can't get to the back door in time.

So yeah, fairly grim but literally anything beats vomming on yourself or the carpet!

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ikea-365-pot-with-lid-stainless-steel-40484270/

Big ikea pot used in our house. It gets sterilised afterwards

An IKEA vomit bowl, how middle class 🤣
Can anyone better it with a John Lewis vomit bowl, or maybe Harrods ?

Ours growing up was a salad bowl im now very grateful I was fussy as a child and wouldn't eat salad!

Plastic bedroom bin here. If it's a short notice hurl then we try and whip out the bin bag in time so vom goes into the bin itself. Bin then gets emptied down the loo and washed out inc disinfectant. If it's a long time brewing then there's hopefully enough time to empty the bin bag contents into the bathroom bin & then it's easy to lift the vom out in the bag afterwards. Bin still gets cleaned just in case. More to get rid of any smells than anything else. I also have a matching plastic bin in the kitchen that we keep garden flip flops in so that's there if we both need one. Or I can empty the mop bucket if someone's bringing up enough to merit it.

My mum has my old kiddie step up turned upside down and an old washing up bowl in reserve. I get motion sickness so the potty she bought for travelling when I was little has stayed in the boot of my parents car for loo or vom emergencies. I should probably get something for my car kit tbh!

Our toilet works just fine. I thought that’s what everyone did 🤷‍♀️

Small children don't often have the wherewithal to make it to the loo in time. It's a shout if 'I'm going to be sick!' and you grab a bowl. I have often just picked something up off the draining board as the nearest thing.

My mother in law’s probably is John Lewis. Everything in her house is John Lewis. Not sure if she’s the type to have a sick bowl though. I shall have to ask dh.

A what bowl! 😂

no we don’t have a dedicated bowl. On the very rare occasion the kids have ever been too sick to get to the toilet I’ve used a bucket with a bin liner inside.

We use a 99p orange bucket from B&Q - no chance of ever putting food in that!
Also - HOW BIG ARE YOUR BOWLS??? My largest kitchen bowl wouldn’t contain the whole violence of a hurl…

I get pretty rare migraines. When that happens although I'm rarely sick, I need a receptacle by the bed in case. I cant make it to the toilet, I have to lie down carefully and not move much. So if I did throw up, it would be on the carpet.

And after all that, my very very large mixing bowl that doubles as vom bowl has not yet been used for that purpose. Yet. I only bought it 5 or 6 years ago for a specific cake I wanted to make. Obviously not been sick in that time.

In fairness to those of us who have a bowl, I've yet to meet a child who can reliably get to the toilet in time to not cost your carpets and or walls on the way.. bowls are easier.

Ours was also Halloween trick or treaters bowl! Now used as a vomit bowl (I have HG) and after I will use it to wash the dog’s paws after muddy walks (too grim to go back to food based use).

2 adults, 3 kids under 13. I can’t remember the last time anyone vomited. At least 6 years ago I reckon. And even then it only happened very very rarely. So we don’t have a special bowl.

Never had a dedicated bowl, dc as teens/young adults certainly improvised depending on just how drunk they were but they cleared up after themselves. Never needed one for the kids, they weren't sickly

Just came to claim my prize for Most Middle Class vomit bowl.

It is a rather nice round, white plastic affair, and has a rubberised bottom to prevent it being kicked across the floor and a pouring spout for ease of emptying. I think it MAY ACTUALLY be John Lewis.

However, it has currently been holding a naice mug that was broken along with a waiting kintsugi kit (the Japanese art of 'golden joinery') for so long, it has become The Kintsugi Bowl. Yes, I am a shameless middle class wanker.

On a related note, DS vomited in a taxi yesterday morning and DH caught it and sealed it in a snaplock freezer bag. I have never loved him more.

When I was a kid, my parents used the washing-up bowl. I never saw a problem with it.

Ours is also the cake mixing bowl. We do wash it between uses!

Ours was a jug that OH used for rinsing her hair.

Once it got used though we bought a new rinse jug though

We have an “under the sink” washing up bowl, never to be confused with the actual washing up bowl. It’s reserved for sick, socks, cleaning cloths and washing windows.

I use my cane mixing bowl. Have t got room to store a separate one. I did nick some cardboard ones from work but disposal of them was problematic!

@HebeMumsnet that's amazing skills from your husband!!