Friends staying here and poorly

[Thissucks125]

On the 13th Feb I had a stomach bug. As did my daughter. recovered. Then caught a cold. On the 21st Feb we got a weird achy bug. I had a bad stomach with it (diarrhoea) she vomited. We sort of had dodgy stomachs for 4 days.

Friends staying here temporarily. They should be moving into their house next week. They've been stopping in hotels but I said they could stay here Tuesday and Wed to save money. They've started throwing up tonight. But they've blocked my sink with vomit and it's also gone allover my bathroom bin.

I feel really pissed off. I can smell sick and I have no way of unblocking the sink as i wasnt expecting them to not reach the toilet.. I dont want to catch it. I have worked 6 days out of the last 7 and I'm going in Friday morning too. So tomorrow I wanted to go to my parents for a couple of hours and do xyz. I was relying on this friend to be up and productive early. If I have anymore sick days I'll probably end up with a warning. Plus I really really don't want a sickness bug again.

I don't know why I'm writing. Just so miffed!

Bleach the door handles, light switches and open the windows. You can repeatedly catch the norovirus I can testify. You need to stay away from them, and contain them to one area if possible.

Leave a clean bucket, bleach, gloves and order a sink plunger (throw it all away once used) it can last up to 6 days on surfaces I read last week.

Go and wake them up and tell them to clean it so you can use your bathroom.

I'd honestly get a pair of rubber gloves and several rolls of paper towels and a mask, and just clean it. Bag everything and throw it out immediately.

Then apply bleach liberally to all the surfaces near the sink and the sink itself.

Do you have a can of disinfectant spray? I'd use the entire can spraying every surface in the house, doorknobs, loo flusher, loo, kitchen counters, kettle handle, stove knobs, microwave, the works.

If you want to be certain your drains are not full of festering vomit, buy some drain opener and pour it down the plughole, then wait and flush according to directions.

You'll need duct tape to cover any air / vent holes in the sink if you decide to plunge it. Don't plunge if you use a chemical drain opener though.

Unless she was delirious, I can't imagine how she decided the sink was a better option than the loo.

I once had food poisoning and it started from literally from less than a minute of nausea to projectile vomit . I hadn't barely had time to register hiw I felt and the second I started to move the sickness came. It's the only time I've felt like that.

I have experienced this (more than once), and this did work. May or may not in OP's case, but worth posting in case it helps.

I’m 36 and I had norovirus last week. It’s the first time in my adult life I’ve been sick in a sink and that’s because the toilet was being used for something else at the same time. However it was then bleached within an inch of its life as was the toilet after every time I used it. I wouldn’t be cleaning up after them. Put the bleach outside the bathroom door and ask then to do it

I’ve had it where I was sick every hour or so for 10/12 hours and I know it makes you feel exhausted, shaky and just awful but I’ve still always known I was going to be sick, so hung about the bathroom until I was then crawl back to bed - rinse and repeat x 12 or should I say flush and repeat.

I think most people feel exhausted, dehydrated and absolutely awful during a bug like this. I wouldn’t assume someone felt sicker, I’d assume they don’t recognise their own body’s warning signs, like the severe queasy stomach, the extra saliva or they were very deep sleepers…. Unless of course they don’t get that, at which point they would have so sleep in the bathroom so they do make it to the toilet. I’ve also done that before. As poorly as I’ve felt, I would never leave chucks of vomit in someone else’s sick and go back to bed. I’d have to be unconscious

You are deranged! I've never seen one person do a total of 17 replies on one thread....and all of them frothing with hate and rage...over vomit!

Are you ok?? Your reaction here is really weird.

If you’re lying in bed feeling unwell it can be the movement of getting up and walking that triggers the sudden (overwhelming) need to be sick. Then it’s a case of how near the bathroom is.

I’m a migraine sufferer - always accompanied by vomiting. If I wake up with one there’s no time to organise a sick bucket etc … and it can be a real feat getting to the bathroom in time. Sometimes it’s a sink job 😮

Having said that, I’d certainly clean up … even if I was feeling at death’s door - and especially at a friend’s house! (Though the sink unplugging would have to wait I guess).

As others have said it’s entirely possible one of them was already on the loo which is why thee sink took the brunt. I’d get them some towels and a bucket for the room. I’d have thought a chemical drain unblocker would be fine for the sink and not too hands-on. I’m sure they also feel awful- ifs not the thing you want to happen to you at the best of times and definitely not in someone else’s house.

Some of the posts on here are really nasty. Sickness happens. No-one enjoys it but it is an occupational hazard with children especially and you just have to crack on. One of mine projectile vomited over me on a flight once with no warning and that was a low point trying to clean us both up in the plane toilets. Both of mine have missed bowls and got carpets and I’ve not made it to the loo myself a couple of times- once when I was in transition and hadn’t realised I was about to give birth and another with a bad sickness bug and had been in a deep sleep.

It's almost as though youre not the universal constant eh?

Edit: that was to @Pinkandcake

I'm utterly amazed at the level of detail people are providing about their own v&d experiences, how it should be dealt with and the horror and indignation that a person hadn't managed to clean up after themselves.

Some people are raging here, advising to kick the poorly friend out and saying the person either isn't a friend for not having cleaned up or would no longer be a friend! 😱
The testimonials of having been able to make it to the toilet when practically dying are truly heroic. 👏😂

As they say, Only on Mumsnet.... 😁

Fuck that! They’re adults and need to clean it up. You’re not their mother and you’re already doing them a favour. I’d be banging on the door and telling them in no uncertain terms that they need this shit sorted within half an hour or can pay for a hotel.

Did they say anything to you? I can't believe anyone wouldnt clean this up!

The reactions on here are crazy. I forget the high levels of OCD on mumsnet. Your friends must be really sick to have not cleaned up. They could be delirious. It's only a bathroom and a bit of sick. I'd be more worried about my friends health.

I get stomach bugs really really bad for some reason. I've had times when I had to puke in the sink while sat at the toilet with diarrhea. I've had times when I did not even make it to the bathroom on time. I've had times when I was unable to clean up after me - I would have passed out there and then if I tried. I would have felt horribly guilty if I was at a friends house, but I wouldn't have been able to do it no matter what. I would give your friends some slack. These things happen and they probably already feel terribly guilty about it. And they probably got it from you anyway!

In the corner shop you can buy this drain cleaner called ‘One Shot’. It comes in a white, rectangular box.
It is very strong and will unblock the sink.

Let’s face it, she likely caught it from you and your daughter! Adults very rarely pass stomach bugs from adult to adult and you and your child were both very recently unwell.
She should do a big clean later this morning and I’m sure she will be mortified but the posters acting like this is her fault are unhinged.

I had norovirus whilst staying at my son’s. They’d had it over a week before I went, but they think I probably caught it from something they’d missed cleaning (it can live for two weeks on surfaces/door handles etc). On my worst day, I ran to the bathroom with my hand over my mouth, but because it was projectile, it squirted through my fingers.

My son helped me clean because: he realised I couldn’t help it; I was feeling like shit; they’d given me the bug in the first place; he’s a nice person.

That is vile! Grown adults can clean up their own vomit - I would be mortified

There's a level of sickness that can mean you literally can't help it. I've had it with norovirus and appendicitis and gallbladder attacks. You move, your body violently expels from both ends. It doesn't wait for you to.reach anywhere. It doesn't care if you're trying to clean up or empty. Just endless heaving.

Most people would at the very least would clean it up… no?

It sounds like they caught off of you and so I’m not sure why you’re mad at them, they’ve not chosen to get sick.

Being poorly is awful but being poorly in someone where home is the absolute worst.

If it was my friend I would be doing whatever I could to make them feel better.

I would also be giving them the bin with a bin bag in, so they don’t need to rush to the bathroom.

It’s vile that they didn’t clean up after themselves, however when I’ve been violently sick like that I assumed I had cleaned up/didn’t make much mess and it was only a few hours later when I was a bit better that I realised I had made more mess.

I think you’re being very unfair.
If you’re worried about catching it then ask her to go to a hotel for a couple of nights.

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