to tell you I've found the perfect sick bowl?

[MyCousinsNotVinny]

I have found the perfect bowl for incoming vomit!

Plastic - check
Deep/large enough to contain splash back but not so deep as to be unwieldy - check
Spout to easily empty - check
Dishwasher safe - check

Plus the handle on one side and the spout make it easy to hold support on a lap.

It's showing out of stock online but I got it in a store today.

I'm sure it's great for mixing too.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/27cm-mixing-bowl/751137-660685-660686

The toilet. I've never not had enough notice to get there.

DC have vomited on waking up in the middle of the night so onto the floor once each. There was no warning they were ill before bed so wouldn't have had inkling to put a bowl out anyway.

I use a former mixing bowl which has a lid and a grippy base so it doesn't move.

Everyone in the family knows this bowl is not to be used in cooking again 😂

@Namedmyself

I’m afraid it’s not quite perfect, but close.

it’s see through and surely you don’t want to see your own sick? Also I fear the handle a
tad too small, you’d need precision grip and when you’re overcome with the feeling you just want to grab.

Oh no! I think you are quite right @Namedmyself . I withdraw my own post. Rooky mistake. I was so pleased with my find. If only they made one that was properly opaque.

I don't like yours with an actual grippy handle though - that's too much interference you just want to hold it in your lap - and it doesn't look wide/deep enough.

The Halloween bucket is a good idea but not wide/deep enough and has no spout.

When I was a child the sick bowl looked a bit like this one here - which I must say is a quality sick bowl - the big one - and beats my offer.

https://www.pineappleretro.co.uk/products/vintage-1970s-rosti-plastic-bowls-danish-melamine-red-blood-orange

@Lwrenagain
Now, a stainless steel bowl ideally a deep jug style is ideal!

I don't like the idea of this because metal conducts heat well. The idea of holding a bowl and feeling the warmth of your vomit makes me want to ... well ... vomit.

Aw this thread makes me feel weirdly nostalgic. I'm a migraine sufferer who really really struggled in my teens (I averaged 1 a week at my worst point). My favourite sick bowl was similar to the OPs but was thicker and ochre (I think it was tupperware). It had a lid for the post vomit, not quite up to cleaning the bowl stage. I used to get sent to bed with it with a splash of water and a bit of dettol in it. The smell of dettol still makes me heave.

We’ve never owned a sick bowl , and I had hg in both pregnancies. We always just used a plastic waste bin as a precaution when the kids were small and as soon as able they vomited in the toilet like a normal person .

The toliet as are my DCs since aged about 8.

The toliet as are my DCs since aged about 8.

Aw. That's sad for the little children. It's horrible being sick anyway and feeling ill but having to heave over a place where people shit is doubly unpleasant for a small child not least because - being smalller - they are more proximate to the seat and bowl. Even the cleanest toilets will have residual faecal matter and urine floating about unless you sterilise it pre-vomit. Practically face in the bowl.

There is a real nostalgia about it but if you were feeling billious sitting on a comfy chair or in the kitchen and have your parent comfort you as you chucked up into the sick bowl.... rubbing your back ... cleaning your face afterwards....those were the days hey?

Surely metal bowls are better? You can de-germ with boiling water and use steel wire if necessary.

There is a real nostalgia about it but if you were feeling billious sitting on a comfy chair or in the kitchen and have your parent comfort you as you chucked up into the sick bowl.... rubbing your back ... cleaning your face afterwards....those were the days hey?
I have no memory of anything like this. But then I have no memory of vomiting anywhere as a child except in a lay-by after a travel sickness issue and in the toilets of a ferry.

Likewise DC have only ever vomited in hasty lay-by stops or once each immediately after waking up so with no warning.

Vomiting doesn't seem to have been the right of passage it was for some people.

I suppose we are not a sicky lot. I remember 2 vomting bugs in their childhood. Last one was when DS was 6. He vomited once aged 14 after swallowing rather a lot of lake water and Dd jad food posioning aged about 8. Since then it has always been due to drinking ( once each I think). Not a frequent thing here at all.

Morrisons have the exact same one in two sizes

If it’s plastic it’s not perfect, I can’t reuse a plastic bowl that’s been thrown up in. I don’t know why but I never feel it’s clean again. I use a large glass bowl now!

I’m with you…I’m reading this whole thread in horror…kids are not accurate pukers…surely a full on bucket is the only thing that can competently cope with explosive vom?

What do you do for bouts of vomiting and diarrhea?

I haven’t had call to use the sick bowl much, but was very grateful to have it on my lap once during a nasty bug when I didn’t know which end to put over the toilet.

Because I join in with anyone vomiting and my dac (an) are still travel sick I have these in the car and the house

Interesting that you all vomit straight into the bowl! I have always lined with plastic bags that can be tied and go into the bin as I couldn’t deal with washing after every heave or risking the smell of vomit lingering while I’m queasy

WHO IS PUTTING USED SICK BOWLS INTO THE DISHWASHER??

What do you do for bouts of vomiting and diarrhea
I had d&v once with food poisoning about 20 years ago. DC have never had it. We have a bucket in the cupboard in our en suite from when we had a roof leak. I'd probably grab that if it was ever needed.

Well I've never had a sick bowl but if it's been rinsed out then why not in the dishwasher? What's the difference between that and using the washing machine to wash clothes that have had vomit on?

I had HG with number two but we never have had a sick bowl ever - I never even thought to. I tie their hair back, towel on the floor and they vomit straight into the toilet - only done a few times over the years though. Then flush and disinfect - my poor kids!! I didn’t even know it was a thing

Get you lot, with your fancy bowls! We always used a plastic basin to throw up into so now that’s what my DC are used to. It’s not used to wash dishes in, it’s a spare one!

I have this and confirm it does the job

(Also works well for mixing)

@Sheraprincessofflower I do - but not with sick in, after a vomit I’d empty in to loo, fill with hot water and disinfectant and flush that too, then spray disinfect and wipe with tissue, that would also be flushed, I’d then put through the dw to get it back to truly clean!

Dishwasher safe 🤮

I know it needs to be cleaned but I’m feeling sick myself just at the very thought of putting a bowl someone vomited in in the dishwasher with the crockery!