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Is this too unpleasant to do even in the circumstances?!

137 replies

Greeanj · 05/09/2025 15:02

We have to catch a flight this evening and our bedding is not in a good state after a night and day of sickness bug. I have no time to now wash it. Is it too awful to leave it on and wash when we return? It’s cheap bedding and I’m now wondering if we throw it out rather than leave it?!

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13SixWeetabix · 05/09/2025 15:03

😆

ARichtGoodDram · 05/09/2025 15:03

Should you really be getting on a plane if you've got a sickness bug?
You'll smite everyone else on there

hereismydog · 05/09/2025 15:03

You’re getting on a plane with a D&V bug? 😟

TheStroppyFeminist · 05/09/2025 15:03

Urgh! Chuck it and put clean bedding on when you get back.

Foxglovesandprimroses · 05/09/2025 15:04

I wouldnt fly if I had a sickness bug, the poor other passengers being exposed to your germs.

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Darragon · 05/09/2025 15:04

I would always immediately strip the beds to avoid getting vomit fluids on mattresses. Can’t you put it all through a quick wash (most washers have a 20 minute wash) then throw it over your shower enclosure/ curtain rail/ doors so its fresh? Then do a proper wash when you get back?

FurForksSake · 05/09/2025 15:04

Quickest wash and then leave over the banister and you can rewash when you return. If not bin.

Darragon · 05/09/2025 15:06

Also give people sick bowls next time! Only the toddler in our house doesn’t manage to get to an appropriate receptacle!

FurForksSake · 05/09/2025 15:10

We have silver round washing up bowls under kids beds. They are used for nothing else.

SummerEve · 05/09/2025 15:17

Are you seriously going to get on a flight with an active stomach bug? That’s completely out of order if you do.

Zimunya · 05/09/2025 15:25

I don't think this thread went quite the way OP expected!

W0tnow · 05/09/2025 15:29

Wash them and hang them over several dining chairs. Make the bed when you get back.

Idontjetwashthefucker · 05/09/2025 15:30

Rage bait?

HoLeeFuk · 05/09/2025 15:30

It's really unpleasant to get on a plane with a sickness bug Sad

Hercisback1 · 05/09/2025 15:31

Put it in the shortest wash possible with dettol and bio powder. Hang up inside while away.

toxicjobrec · 05/09/2025 15:32

i call bs. even if your flight was early evening, you'd still have time to put a load on to dry out. the fact that you're flying.. well i have no words.

Remingtonsteele · 05/09/2025 15:32

You’re going to get on a plane, where air is recycled, with a sickness bug?

wash the sheets etc and put them on an airer. They’ll be dry by the time you get back?

Leilaandtheloggerheads · 05/09/2025 15:35

How did people get by before being able to run each daily decision past people on the internet 🤣

tealandteal · 05/09/2025 15:36

YABVU to get on a plane with a sickness bug. It’s 48 hours since last episode of d/v. On the chance that is what you meant. Just put them on a 15 minute wash and hand them over the door, then wash them again when you are back. Otherwise your mattress and room will smell awful.

OldFred · 05/09/2025 15:38

Leilaandtheloggerheads · 05/09/2025 15:35

How did people get by before being able to run each daily decision past people on the internet 🤣

I wish the government would check in with MN for every decision to be made 😆

nosleepforme · 05/09/2025 15:38

Darragon · 05/09/2025 15:04

I would always immediately strip the beds to avoid getting vomit fluids on mattresses. Can’t you put it all through a quick wash (most washers have a 20 minute wash) then throw it over your shower enclosure/ curtain rail/ doors so its fresh? Then do a proper wash when you get back?

This

TinyTeachr · 05/09/2025 15:40

DON'T get the flight! For goodness sake you will give it to everyone on the plane!!! If its been so recent that you haven't managed to strip sheets abd give them at least a rinse/half hour wash, you're too ill and infectious to fly. What on earth are you thinking?

ResusciAnnie · 05/09/2025 15:40

Clearly a troll, no one would leave puked/pooed on bedding on a bed and expect to come home to it in the same state as it was left.

Hypothetically you would least put it in the washing machine and come home to musty but clean laundry.

Realistically, you'd clean it because you'd be postponing your flight because you have a sick bug.

But you won't, because this never happened.

QueenClinomania · 05/09/2025 15:42

if you can't wash it then put it all in a bin liner and throw it away otherwise the stench you will come back to will be horrendous.
Ideally you would not go on a plane with a vomiting bug but I get the feeling that's not something you are even considering.

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