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D & V

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Megcan · 10/06/2025 22:14

Hi , just wondering if anyone has any experience in supplements/vitamins adults and kids that has helped prevent D&V ? Our house seems to come down with it at least twice a year !

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MarketSt · 10/06/2025 22:24

Supplements won’t prevent it.

But good hygiene will.

Teach your kids not to put their fingers in their mouths and to wash their hands properly after going to the toilet and before meals.

Make sure you’re sanitising high contact areas in your home properly if/when someone does have a bug.

Be aware that alcohol hand gels don’t kill stomach bug germs. Soap and water.

Shcab · 11/06/2025 05:52

The only thing you can do to prevent it is increase hygiene (I’m sure yours is already good, not implying that you are Stig of the Dump 😉)

Things like:

Drumming it into the kids that you must wash your hands before your eat and whenever you get home from being out and about

School clothes off when you get in from school and quick shower (especially in norovirus season)

Wiling down touch points - banisters, light switches and pulls, remotes, kids tablets etc. antibacterial wipes don’t work on norovirus so I buy Clinell wipes from Amazon which do kill noro.

Steam clean laminate floors regularly

if kids bite their nails work on trying to break that habit

Even if you do all of that perfectly, it won’t stop them getting it sometimes, especially if they’re still very young, but it should decrease the frequency, especially as they get a bit older.

You could also try probiotics, which help the immune system in general and can make bugs pass more quickly, but they don’t prevent norovirus or rotavirus.

TheAutumnCrow · 11/06/2025 06:02

I have a weakened immune system and my list of things include:

. Regular handwashing (everyone in the house)
. Regular Dettol spraying/cleaning
. Being very careful about food hygiene - if in doubt, it gets mega nuked or chucked away in the compost bin
. Meanwhile, eating well, avoiding UPF crap
. Keeping the bathroom window open, and airing out the house every day
. Avoiding sick people! Difficult with kids n school, I know. (See also: bloody nits.)

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