emetophobes, it's that time of year :(

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First bucket sighting at school this morning. My sister had norovirus last week after attending a party where some selfish buggers thought it was acceptable to bring along a vomiting toddler. Most of the other guests got the bug including an elderly man. Feel free to add your rants and worries here.

Hi Becky
Pleased to hear that your dh hasn't been ill and Ds is on the mend. Here's hoping for a quiet night for you and a better day tomorrow.
X

I'm off to bed soon. DS1 tells me he feels sick but we've just had a chat about 'expecting' to feel sick because its a bug in the house and actually feeling sick. He's so like me in many ways (a worrier) so I'm hoping its just that. Fingers crossed for a quiet night x

Bad night here, DS1 started at 11pm last night so he's off school today (and for 48 hours so until Monday in effect). DH sick this morning but he's now eating toast so think he's on the mend. DS2 is on the mend too but he woke up last night a few times with night terrors, which was quite scary (he has no memory of this today). So I'm very tired. I'm still fine. DS3 also still fine. This will pass.

Oh Becky I feel for you. Hopefully you are through the worst of it now and fingers crossed you will all have immunity for the rest of the season (if that is how it works).

Devilinside thanks so much for the great link I dread getting Norovirus but now I'm not nearly so concerned.

Oh no becky, I hope you and your other ds manage not to get it and the others are on the mend soon. I'm g testing even more anxious, there seems to be a lot of 'vomiting children' posts on my fb today ( have seen at least 4 ). Dd1 is on a school trip today which makes me anxious ( hopefully she's having a great time ). Counting down the days until the end of term, 3 weeks and one day to go ( fingers crossed we can make it ).

Hanging on in there here, everyone is gradually getting better. DS2 can go back to school tomorrow as it'll have been over 48 hours, DS1 still off. DH is doing the 'man flu' thing and just sitting watching TV all day (drives me mad sometimes, he's been fine since this morning).

Marne hope your DD is ok and has a good trip.

I do wonder if the immunity thing is true you know. A friend's little boy had a bug before half term, gave it to his dad and big sister so it was definitely a bug not food or anything else. And he was sick again last night presumably with the one going round the school right now. Surely he would be immune from the first time?

Hi can I join in? I was on here a bit last winter then stuck my head in the sand and avoided the v-word for a few months! I've got a DS (7) and DD (3). DD has been v-ing since Sunday night and has had diarrhoea since Tuesday. Dh & I have been taking turns to miss work to be with her. DH is being incredibly supportive and taking over the cleaning up etc but I still feel anxious and have barely eaten all week. I lie awake listening for DD and praying DS doesn't start with it. I bloody hate winter

Hello Juliet I feel your pain. Every meal I have I think 'will I feel ill after this one' and then when I feel hungry I think 'thank you thank you!' But as time passes I feel more anxious 'it must get me tonight'. If it doesn't get me it will get DS3 for sure.

I think immunity can be different for each person, some people will hold immunity for a year or more and some only for a few weeks, I know a few kids that seem to have 5 or 6 bugs a year and others that may have one a year (or even less), and then you get the ones who hardly ever get it.

Hope you are ok Becky, hopefully you will get through tonight without anyone v-ing and by the weekend you will all be bug free.

Hi Becky. I keep thinking DD must not be contagious as its been 4 days now but tonight DS shared her drink after she was sick so now I feel like I've got 3 days of panic to see if he gets it it's relentless, I'm so tired of being anxious. I just want to look forward to Christmas but all I can think about is avoiding bugs! Hopefully you will get some respite soon!

Thinking of all of you who are in the midst of a vomiting crisis. I think we can safely say that this phobia is bloody horrendous. I'm not glad that you are all having to deal with this too but glad to have you all to talk to. Xx

I think pre schoolers and babies can get rotavirus in addition to norovirus, which can result in them having multiple bugs each year, you become immune to rotavirus at some point as a young child but immunity to norovirus only lasts 3 months. Funny how this phobia has made me an expert in virology

Ha ha devillinside that's so true about being an expert. I used to work full time in publishing and ironically I was the in-house editor on a medical book about virology written by one the leading virologists in the UK, John Oxford (every time we get a flu epidemic he appears on TV). I have a copy. I should go seek it out and update myself on these matters!

DS1 was sick again once last night but nothing since then and DS2 back to school today. DS3 is still bug free. He's four and he's never had a sickness bug in his life. Perhaps he just has a strong immune system!

Hope this thread isn't cursed! For the first time in ages ds was sick in the night. As my whole fear is around the uncertainty about getting ill in the first place I feel okay now! He is munching his way through a box of crackers now so I am hoping that that is it. Unfortunately though he had 3 duvets in bed last night and about 10 teddies so I have a lot of washing to do today!

Please don't use handgels, even anti viral ones.

Soap and water is what the nhs still advise.

Well, it's started at dcs school. Not their classes but 2 kids they're at breakfast club with went home feeling sick yesterday... At least neither of them actually v'ed at school. 3 off in my class too. Anxiety sky high. Ds has been saying he has tummy ache but bouncing around and playing quite happily - not the image of kids who went home yesterday pale and upset.

Crossing everything. 3 wks till Xmas hols.

Hope everyone is ok. My dd is fine now
I work in a private care home and heard today that another home in the area has norovirus amongst residents and staff and two residents have passed away. The eldely and the young are so vulnerable.

Pink- this is why they should hurry up with a vaccine, must be horrid for the elderly and the people who have to care for them .

I'm glad the dd's school have already done the Christmas fair and Christmas Disco this year (much earlier than usual) as I hate the kids going into school out of school hours and it usually takes place whilst theres a major out break of d&v. All we need to get through now is the school plays and the class parties (which I hate the most as it involves a buffet). I'm hoping the bugs will stay away after there was a small outbreak a few weeks ago but I cant see that happening, it always seems to be around on the run up to Christmas .

I would be the first in the queue if there was a vaccine, i hate this time of year and dread it if a resident gets it. My dd is cooking at school on monday, all i can think is all the little germy hands making one thing to share.

Hoorah I've got to Sunday and still healthy touch wood touch wood! DS3 also escaped. But DS2 now appears to have slapped cheek syndrome and DS1 also has a red cheek. So more time off school for them.

Hope everyone else is ok, coping with poorly children x

Somehow managed to get to Sunday without anyone else getting sick! DD is now completely better and my anxiety has come down about 3 notches! Still feel like I'm jinxing myself by saying we're all ok but so far, so good! Fingers crossed...! It must be awful for older people. I work as an attendance officer in a school and spend the whole of winter panicking when a few kids start to have time off with tummy bugs, you notice the patterns and it tends to go through the younger ones first

Just nc'd because this will properly out me in RL but I'm in tatters, it was only reading through this that ive realised my reaction to sickness bugs isn't the usual everyday kind of reaction! I actually feel sick at the thought of me or one of my DDs being sick.

DD1 is only little and has had her fair share of tummy bugs, I've caught all of them over the last three years but last winter asked FH ans everyone around me to start helping me by improving personal hygiene. I become very fearful of DD1 getting ill as she has been in and out of hospital since birth with seizures - usually fever triggers but sickness also causes low blood sugar and dehydration which in turn cause seizures.

And then there is my DD2, my skinny baby, the idea of her being ill as shes only five months makes be quite scared.

GP knows I'm a neurotic mum and is very patient with me!

So today friends come over and as they arrive they say their baby has been sick all morning and make a joke about the explosive poos. This is after my DD1 has picked her up for a cuddle and kisses. I asked them to leave

I am now a woman on the edge waiting for us to catch it.

How is everyone doing? Hope your dh is feeling better too, Marne x

Sod it you poor thing