DS Norovirus!? Or just stomach bug?

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I had an email from nursery this afternoon to say there is a sickness bug going round. Tonight my DS 2yo has been projectile vomiting. Is there any way to judge if this is norovirus? Or just a sickness bug? Do we just have to wait and see? We are due to go to Christmas at Kew on Saturday and kids are booked to have photos taken on Sunday, so timing sucks!! 😫🙃

I've been reading up on cleaning after norovirus, so will get the bleach out in the morning and treat it as if it is to hopefully avoid it spreading.

Any tips on cleaning and sanitising my duvet? It is King Size and won't fit in the washing machine. It had a cover on but the wet from the sick has seeped through to the duvet. 🤢

My 8yo DD has never had a sickness bug, I'm not used to dealing with this!! 🤮🤢

Norovirus is one type of sickness bug, the symptoms and treatment are the same.

It’s grim and even with scrupulous cleaning spreads very easily.

It usually lasts 1-3 days.

For the duvet you can take it to a launderette which has larger capacity machines.

I hope you LO gets over it quickly and it doesn’t spread to the rest of your family. I’d skip the weekend events.

Norovirus is just a sickness bug.

Management of it will be the same.

I manage a large number of people in work and I’m always very sceptical when they are absent with “norovirus”. It’s not something that’s routinely diagnosed or tested for by GPs. It’s just a bug.

Hope your little one is better soon.

OK thanks for the replies. I thought norovirus was a particularly bad stomach bug, didn't realise they can all last days😫

He has continued to be sick every hour or so overnight, not much came out last couple of times, he seems to get sick in his mouth and swallow it, I assume I should encourage him to spit it up?😷

Wish I'd slept more between instances. Going to be a long day.

Should I be sending 8yo DD to school? No symptoms at all from her but I'd hate to spread it.

Send your dd in unless she's showing any symptoms.

We've had lots of sickness bugs. Often no one else gets them so it's not certain.

You need to be constant hand washing, clean bathroom, door handles, light switches, stair bannisters with anti bac

My 3 yo DD has started this morning, every half an hour at first, but an hour between the last vomits. Third sickness bug in 3 months, I am so done with this!

Rotavirus is worse than norovirus (LO bought both home from nursery last winter and kindly passed them around 😭). I was much sicker than toddler because they had been vaccinated. However toddler ran a high fever, which is why the GP ended up getting a stool test sent to the local hospital to be sure it wasn't food poisoning.

There are lots of stomach bugs you catch once in childhood and then have immunity to for the rest of your life (or you have enough protection that subsequent infections are very mild). There are multiple strains of norovirus, some only seem to spread among children, others are better at infecting people of all ages.Basically - you and your eldest might miss it.

The treatment is the same whichever virus (Diarolyte or the Boots/Tesco version and rest); ethanol hand gel doesn't work very well against gastro viruses, so hand washing with soap is best. You can clean hard surfaces with a bit of soapy water.

@OtterMummy2024how unlucky for your toddler to get rotavirus despite being vaccinated. It’s about 80-90% effective isn’t it?