To be worried about new baby

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I have a 6 week old baby, my husband has food poisoning. We got takeaway last night with friends but he got from a different place, he had chicken that must have been bad as rest of us are fine.

He is in bad shape, doing my best to keep him hydrated. I'm worried if this is a concern for the baby?

Posting here for views as not sure who to ask for advice, thank you

Assuming your DH is washing his hands after using the bathroom and you’re sterilising any bottles / dummies then I can’t think how it would affect the baby.

Hope he feels better soon!

Food poisoning is not contagious so you and baby should be fine.

He is in bad shape, doing my best to keep him hydrated. I'm worried if this is a concern for the baby?

In what way? You can’t catch food poisoning? Baby will be fine!

Or at least, it's nowhere near as contagious as a viral stomach bug like norovirus. As long as you wash your hands etc I doubt baby will catch it.

If it’s food poisoning, and it sounds like it is, your baby is absolutely fine. It’s rotten timing for your partner to be ill when your baby is so young, but it’s not contagious. Just keep trying to get him to have small sips of water.

Depends what type of food poisoning he has. I thought but could be wrong that salmonella could be passed on if the person isn't practicing good hygiene.

Food poisoning IS contagious but not all types. Practise very good hygiene and it should be fine.

Can he use a separate bathroom? Does he always put the seat down to flush? Cleaning all surfaces in the bathroom will be important.

Food poisoning can be passed on by poor hygiene without there necessarily being a foodstuff in between. The number of individual bacteria that you need for an infection can be surprisingly small, for some things.

You and the baby aren't going to catch what he's got by him just breathing out (the way you could catch covid or flu or something like that), but as the baby is so young you should be very careful with hygiene. I would sleep separately tonight and keep the baby well away from him, also avoid any sheets or towels that he's used, hot wash those after he's better especially if he's been sick in a bowl in the room or anything like that.

Have you got dioralyte for him?

Thanks all, I was reading that food poisoning is a bacteria so I worried it could be passed on through things he's touched etc.

Sleeping separately is hard because we don't have a spare room, only the baby's room which doesn't have a bed so looks like me and baby will be sleeping in the living room as he's been in bed all day. Will wash hands lots.

He is managing to drink water and has only actually thrown up once so no electrolyte drinks yet but will get if he is worse or this lasts into tomorrow.

I had terrible food poisoning at the beginning of September when DS was 3.5 months old. He's EBF and spent the night (vomiting hit at around 2am) and day in bed/the bedroom with me, and was absolutely fine!

Did the baby eat the chicken? 🤨