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Covid started with vomiting?

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greenbananas29 · 02/09/2022 21:44

We've just returned from a weeks holiday in Tenerife.
On Monday my DS 5 started vomiting half way through our holiday, we put it down to a sickness bug but when arriving home today he was snotty and we said 'he's got a cold now aswell' and decided to do a test low and behold it's blazing positive.
Can Covid start like this? Or do you think it's likely he had a sickness bug and has caught Covid aswell?

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nancyglancey · 02/09/2022 22:02

I don't know but DD looked a bit snotty yesterday and just vomited. We have tests and she just did one - negative. She's a teen and has never had covid. Thought this might be her turn.

OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 02/09/2022 22:04

Ds2 was like that.

nohopenoharm · 02/09/2022 22:05

Yes, my 11 year old daughter vomited twice out of the blue before developing cold symptoms and subsequently testing positive a day or so later

MrsFerguson · 02/09/2022 22:05

DS vomited at the start of covid :( most of class had sickness along with covid

LarryBlackmonsCodpiece · 02/09/2022 22:06

Mine started with non stop vomiting for a day.

CarolShields · 02/09/2022 22:07

Yes greenbananas29 both times I’ve had Covid mysymptoms started with S&D. I looked up a chart somewhere and a couple of years ago (stats may be different now) about 7% of UK cases start with S&D.

CarolShields · 02/09/2022 22:08

Started with sickness and diarrhoea, that should have said.

MigAndMog · 02/09/2022 22:15

DD had a bad headache and tested negative. 36 hours later she vomited and tested positive.

LooksBetterWithAFaceMask · 02/09/2022 22:34

Dd started with vomiting and she is never sick. Only one of the five of us who did.

qpmz · 02/09/2022 22:38

I was sick all night out of the blue a few weeks ago. I then tested positive a couple of days later. Must be the same variant that's going around.

Kenwouldmixitup · 02/09/2022 22:39

Yep. Start of Covid - vomiting.

SallyWD · 02/09/2022 22:46

My son's first symptom was vomiting.

EL8888 · 02/09/2022 22:48

I felt super queasy with covid #1. Never vomited but came very close with major watery mouth

twordle · 02/09/2022 22:49

My DS was hospitalised with stomach pain & vomiting - they thought it was appendix. Turned out was covid. It affects the glands & kids' main glands are in their tummies apparently. Hope yours is better soon

JoeMaplin · 02/09/2022 22:50

Severe nausea was my first symptom. Then bad sore throat.

Decafflatteplease · 02/09/2022 22:52

Yup 2 of my dc have had it and it both started with vomiting. Have heard from alot of friends that was their children's first symptoms too

AnnaMagnani · 02/09/2022 23:00

Yes, happened to a friend, sudden onset of profuse vomiting. Had to get a cab home in the time of lockdown - swore blind to taxi driver that it wasn't Covid.

She still feels guilty for that driver.

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greenbananas29 · 02/09/2022 23:04

Wow! Thanks I'm glad I posted because I was trying to work out if he's eaten something on holiday in the all inc restaurant or if it was indeed the start of covid, it's too much of a coincidence because he's blazing positive now after spending the whole of Monday vomiting through the night.
He has now completely lost his appetite which is unlike him.
When others have said their child's started with vomiting was it just once or like continuous?
DS was sick throughout the night which made me suspect Norovirus or something but now I'm not so sure...

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Howmanysleepsnow · 02/09/2022 23:11

It’s that common a symptom now that my dentist asks if anyone in the family has vomited along with the normal temperature/ cough/ loss of taste questions when booking an appointment.

Howmanysleepsnow · 02/09/2022 23:13

Dh had vomiting as his first symptom the first time he had covid. It was continuous. He thought it was food poisoning at first and blamed my cooking!

Hagnarok · 03/09/2022 00:25

My Dad started vomiting and excruciating stomach cramps for about a week, he tested positve the day he started being sick. (Negative the evening before.)

Hagnarok · 03/09/2022 00:34

(He's 72 as well so definitely not just a kids thing.)

VanillaIce1 · 03/09/2022 00:36

We did. Thought we had noro was covid. But it could of been both as the sickness continued for 24 hours.

IncessantNameChanger · 03/09/2022 15:53

Ds14 has never had covid, no vaccine, never ill. Started being sick last Sunday. I tested him on Tuesday as its not like him to be ill. Negative. Still feeling rough yesterday and not eating so tested him again and it's positive. Just as we all head back to school. It's taken a long time to show up for him.

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