If one of your kids is throwing up and you DONT have a sick phobia what do you do?

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I'm trying very hard to be rational - DD has vomited about 6 times.
So far the rest of us (me, DH and two other kids) are ok

I feel awful as I just panic as soon as sick is mentioned she keeps coming to me for cuddles which of course I give but I'm so scared of catching it

I'm going through the process of bleaching entire house and panicking about what ifs if the rest of us get it

She is 15 and has a room downstairs so is using a sick bowl as she can't make it up to bathroom she's then presenting me with sick bowl and it may as well be nuclear waste im so scared of it

I would be finding a way for the 15 yr old to deal with her own vomit.

Dettol. Cuddles. Yes, but she can pour the puke down an outdoor drain or move to a sick room upstairs and puke directly down the toilet.

Thanks - ive got her upstairs - the only room she can go in is my bedroom - I will change bedding before I go to bed

Poor thing hope she picks up soon

Unless really, really ill, I think a 15-year old should be emptying the bowl herself. But, if she can't, I'd just empty and rinse out and return. Paper or towels on the floor to catch splashes and clean up with Dettol as and when. Wash hands with soap and water a lot.

My eldest puked into my open mouth once

What really? Someone is ill in bed and vomiting and you make them get up and sort out their own bowl of vomit? Goodness I must be a saint then. Would never occur to me to make an ill person sort out their own mess. Doesn't matter if it's the kids or DH. If they're ill in bed then they need looking after.

When my 15yo dd is sick I generally hold her hair for her whilst she has her head over the toilet - then bleach the loo afterwards .

No I honestly can't imagine making anyone else clean up their vomit when ill. Can't your DH help her?

Mine are a bit young to manage catching in a bowl so we use loads of towels, hose down then boil wash. Towels on floor, bed everywhere. Continual wiping down with anti bac wipes to contain it, we normal manage to limit the spread of illness this way.

Hope she feels better soon and the rest of the house stay bug free.

I'd be encouraging her to get to the toilet to be sick if at possible but if genuinely not able to then I would be emptying the bowl, rinsing and returning it to her. It's not always possible to clean up after yourself when you're ill. I've got a bug at the moment and dh had to clean up after me last night after I passed out in the bathroom.

ive bleached none stop all day - DH cant help yet as he is working until 8pm
shes made the toilet the last few times, poor thing cant even keep sips of water down.
I couldnt tell her to get up and sort it out herself.

Although I am grimacing when she is coming for hugs, although of course she doesnt know that

Hands are red raw from continual washing! Sometimes i wish i got the bugs first as its the terrible fear or catching it that really does me in

Could she vomit into a bag so it can be binned rather than rinsed out?

I have emetophobia I really really feel for you

it's pretty sensible to be afraid of tummy bugs; not incapacitatingly afraid, but take the blighters seriously.

I keep a few buckets for problems like this.
I handle the bucket carefully.
I wash my hands after handling the bucket every time (hot water, soap).
I rinse inside bucket in very hot water if I feel I have to.
No sharing fluids or plates or touching sickie without immediate hand washing afterwards.
Anything gets vomit on it goes for hot wash (60) or in the bin.
A 15yo I would certainly encourage them to try to empty own sick bucket but not really expect too much.

I don't bleach anything. Bleach is horrible for you, I'm more afraid of bleach than the vomitting bug (however painful those bugs are).

.... One time I saw a woman get out of a car (with loads of other people), heave into the gutter (I reckon she had morning sickness actually), go in house, back out after 10 minutes to clean up her sick still looking very green.

Cleaning up the sick all by herself. I just didn't get that. So much for supportive family.

Dd hasn't been sick since Sunday tea time
No one else has been sick but I feel absolutely terrible it's really triggered me im constantly feeling nauseous and scared im going to get ill but don't know if that's the anxiety or if I actually feel sick

Feel really down its crazy how a bug can make me feel like this!

I line a bowl with two plastic bags then once the person has been sick I tie the handles and dump in the outside bin. Lots of hand washing and anti bac gel. I've managed to avoid the last few bugs as I'm not cleaning the bathroom and spreading the germs around.

lljkk She went back out to clean it up? If I'd have been feeling particularly amazing and saintly I might have swooshed a bucket of water on it but otherwise, surely the next downpour would just deal with it?

Am I a really terrible person?

I'd always prefer to flush sick down loo than put a bag of it in the bin. Disinfectant clears the horrible vomit smell better than bleach does. It literally neutralises it being a strong alkali. In a very kind sort of way I would be discouraging the hugs on the grounds of I really don't want to catch it from you. I hate the stuff myself I always have a meltdown over it, and if he's here my husband has to deal with it. I am probably emetophobic. I am lucky neither of my have been sick very often, but I have a total lack of sympathy if it's self inflicted, I just can't handle it.

disinfectant in the bottom of the bucket, cat litter over any vomit on the floor. It's awful isn't it?

@BuggerMeIB: I thought it was appalling, that she was being shamed into going out there to clean it up, like she was being blamed for having morning sickness. Just a gut feeling about the situation!

Oh god my son is starting I think

Stuck on the toilet 'weeing out of his bum' as he put it

oh no bottom wee!

I feel for you. I got the phone cal from school yesterday as DS felt sick :/

Just got out of the school office and he puked everywhere. I must have looked and acted like I had never seen him before in my life keeping as far away from him as possible. The head came and sorted him out for me she now probably just thinks I'm a bit crap as I couldn't summon up the words to tell her I had sick phobia.

I've been up all night with DS but mostly it is my fear of it getting to me that does it! I completely understand.

We used to do the sick bucket thing - a smallish round bin, from Ikea which is slightly flexible. I could put the rim under my nose pressed up against my skin, that way I can vomit without having to look at it or smell it, the other side of the bin is against my chest, am I making any sense? Rather than put your head over the bin your face is clear of it, just your mouth is over it.

But after a car journey we had the revelation of lining it with a tie handle bin liner. It meant we could just tie up the handles and bin the sick. This proved very handy when Ds1 was sick 5 times in the middle of the night, tie the bin and put it in the bath to deal with in the morning.

Disinfect bin and bath. Easy.

Even at 15 or 16 I would still deal with the children's sick. That is what parents do. I would do it for Dh and he would do it for me. Unless you are left alone for whatever reason, it is nice if someone else deals with it for you.

As a fellow emetophobe I really feel for you

The fear of me catching it is unbearable - if I had it first Id be able to relax a bit I think even though I'd hate to have it