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Child vomiting-due on holiday 2moro

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pumpkinsweetie · 29/04/2012 20:46

My 21 month dc has suddenly came down with sickness and a runny nose.
She has vomited twice so im not sure if it is the winter vomiting virus or something else as she is still teething as her back teeth are coming through.
We are due to go on holiday in the UK tomorrow by train then taxi, im not too sure whether we can go now and im going to see how she is overnight before we make any descisions on about going.

Any on advise mumsnetters on what i should do, my dcs are so looking forward to this holiday and are very excited with it being our very 1st holiday as a family and they are going to be so dissapointed if we don't go :(.
I have already booked their time of school and nursery, and i wont get any of my money back so what do i do?

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Nevercan · 29/04/2012 21:23

See how you go tonight but you could go for it and take changes of clothes/plastic bags in case she is sick on the way and she can just sit with you and rest/sleep on the way...

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pumpkinsweetie · 29/04/2012 21:48

I will try that Nevercan if shes ok overnight, im hoping so shes not long had that vomiting bug.
All my dcs had it before easter

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IHeartKingThistle · 29/04/2012 21:55

Sorry to sound harsh but are you not bothered about giving other train passengers a vomiting bug?

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pumpkinsweetie · 29/04/2012 22:02

Yes i am bothered thats why i have posted on here -for advice.
My H is going to look after her if she worsens or it does turn out to be a bug and i will take my 3 other dcs alone which will be hard work with all the luggage but i dont want to let down my dcs
I cant bare to be parted from my youngest dc & i feel torn what to do-my H is insisting i go.
I have never left her even for one night with anyone else so 5 days will be a challenge

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chipmonkey · 29/04/2012 22:30

pumpkin, you just don't know with bugs. This happened to us with ds3 when he was a year old. I hoped it was just a 24 hour thing and took him on a plane to Lanzarote. In fairness he had had a reprieve from the vomiting so I thought I was right about the 24 hour thing but then when we got there he continued to vomit for another 4 days! And I did feel terrible because if I'd known how bad a bug it was, I would never have brought him on a plane with all those other people and exposed them to it.
It was vile, we were in an apartment complex with no washing machine and apparently no launderette for miles. I had to handwash sheets and clothes in the bath and bidet and to boot the weather was terrible, torrential rain for most of the week so couldn't even dry anything. The only saving grace was that he usually wore cloth nappies but fortunately I had decided to use disposables for the week so at least that aspect of things wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Not only that but we discovered when we got there that we hadn't booked travel insurance, we thought we had but when we looked at the documentation we hadn't. So a GP wanted to admit him to hospital and we couldn't do that as we couldn't affored to cover the cost. Now, he was keeping breastmilk down and flat 7 up so wasn't dehydrated so IMO he didn't need admitting but our rep said local GP's would get a bonus from the private clinics for referring them so think that's really why they wanted to refer him.

So after that holiday from hell, my advice would be leave baby with H!

IHeartKingThistle · 29/04/2012 22:31

I'm really not trying to be horrible, it does sound like a horrendous situation. I am a bit sensitive about this issue I suppose: someone I don't even know went to visit my friend without mentioning that her child had been vomiting, my friend came to see me unaware that her child had picked it up and was about to start vomiting, I came down with it severely, managed to give it to 11 other people, ruined Christmas, and 2 years later I still have stomach problems because of it. Could so easily have been avoided if that person had kept her child at home.

I really hope your DD feels better soon and you can enjoy your holiday.

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pumpkinsweetie · 29/04/2012 23:08

I don't want anyone else to be ill with this as i have had it before along with all 4 of my dcs before easter and its a nasty bug to endure and i wouldnt wish it on anyone else.
So far she has only been sick once so im not sure on it being a vomiting virus as 3 hours have passed since then but shes very clingy & crys everytime i put her to bed so im staying up with her and seeing how things go.

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devilinside · 30/04/2012 12:04

Having had two Xmas's ruined by selfish people passing around norovirus, (plus being emetophobic) I am particularly sensitive about this issue, but

Babies under 3 commonly get rotavirus, which adults and older children are immune to, so if she isn't sick again, and is eating by the morning, I would still go.

Marne · 30/04/2012 19:40

Surely if she has only been sick once and has not got the runs then it may not be a bug? if it was norovirus chances are she would be very poorly, we have had it several times and had really bad D&V and could hardly get out of bed.

I would see how she is tonight and re-think things in the morning, she will either be up all night being sick (in that case its probably a bug) or she will be fine.

I am a emetophob too and hate it when people spread around bugs (dd1's class mate was sick today in class so i am sh*ting myself with worry that dd1 will get it) but i think if your dd is ok tomorrow then you should still go (unless there is a way of all going a day later).

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