C section post op 1 week and vomiting bug.

[Twistylemon]

Hiya everyone.

I had a c section Friday 15th.
Discharged 16th.
Monday diagnosed with chest infection. Then Monday evening ended up in ED, as coughing up blood. No Pe or DvT. Given antibiotics.
Thursday dressing change and some gunk present. Friday (today) more gunk so they sent me to hospital for a swab and contact on Monday to check to see if anything grown.

I'm on comoxiclav anyways for the chest infection.

Anyways. My toddler has come home with a vomiting bug (I'm pretty sure it's a bug) 😔 😟 🙁

I wonder if anyone has actually had a sickness bug with a c section a week ago 🤔

I have literally had enough of going back and forward to hospital. Even thinking about a bug has me in a nervous wreck!?

I'm aware its just a bug, but with having a csection I'm just working myself up of the pain, and that I may have an infection in my incision as well.

Thank you in advance

That’s such bad luck OP :( I didn’t have an infection of my C-section incision but did have septic mastitis 2 weeks after c-section (which caused some major vomiting due to high fevers) and was admitted to hosp for a week. So can sympathise with some of what you are feeling and just want to reassure that in a few weeks this will be a distant memory!! Somehow you just get through it ☺️

I don’t remember the vomiting hurting my c-section site much, though it wasn’t pleasant! How are you feeling now with your chest infection? The antibiotics should have kicked in by now if started on Monday so hope they’re doing the trick! And good they swabbed your scar as it sounds like you might need a different antibiotic if the coamoxiclav isn’t work on that. They sound very on it!

Definitely bad luck ☹️ oh wow. That sounds intense! Go you!

Oh I know it will be a distant memory, but I suppose I have reached my limit of having things "wrong" so to speak.

The chest infection is pretty much fine, I only had a slight cough to begin with. But as I have asthma I could feel the crackles almost immediately- they think the spinal affected my asthma!

Just feeling a bit crappy about it all. Though I can be thankful that my beautiful new born is perfect in every way!

Comoxiclav causing nausea anyway, along with diahorria and a headache. But that's what happens with that specific drug. Kills all germs and stomach 🤣

So sorry OP. I had a vomiting bug about a week post c section too. Grim but fine. So sorry to hear about the incision, glad the doctors are on to it and hope you feel better soon 💐

My 5yo started vomiting 6 days post csection with my partner following the next day (def a bug!) . It caught up with me eventually . Was grim especially since I was breastfeeding but no damage to incision. I did brace my stomach/incision as best I could before sick episodes and never stopped washing my hands. You will be fine

Thank you both for reassurance from you both. Hopefully I don't catch it and I'm worrying over nothing x

Monday diagnosed with 'chest infection' - what type: pneumonia(bacterial or viral etc), bronchitis(viral)? Antibiotics for what type of chest infection? But the swab test on Friday, 4 days after the diagnosis? https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pneumonia/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20354210, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bronchitis/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20355572,

I would assume it was bacterial as prescribed antibiotics 🤷🏼‍♀️ ED aren't ones to give meds if viral. With the coughing up blood too I would say bacterial too, as they felt the chest infection and coughing up blood were connected. I'm asthmatic too. So they felt perhaps that the spinal affected my chest when having c section done.

They didn't know the wound was infected potentially until the first dressing change on Thursday 21st. So Friday would be about right 🤔

They are now saying just because it's leaking gunk doesn't mean it's infected. New nhs guidelines or something 🤔

FYI my wound was infected as I told them as my swab came back as growing something.