help emetephobe in panic

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DD says sombody had a bowl and was ill in it in school today helpp

is she complaining of feeling ill?
have you got someone you can call if she starts being ill?

No DH is working late tonight and tomorrow. How long do you thing it will be if she is going to get it. She saw the child at 9am this morning being ill

She won't have touched it, and those germs aren't airborn

If she does get it, it will be a 24 hour thing. She will only be bad for 24 hours, then it will be over. Nothing else will happen.

How old is she?

she is 4 sorry I am hopeless at dealing with this

there is no reason to believe she is gonna get anything through that girl....

I know I know

As a fellow emetophobe, I understand your panic (I had to resist asking dd who was away and why when she mentioned in passing that there were only 21 in her class yesterday - surely her class is bigger than that?) but realistically, there is nothing you can do about this. If the child was ill first thing in the morning, the only comfort you can give yourself is that your child was not in much contact with the ill child. But then, as these bugs can be harboured for a couple of days, maybe the child was infectious yesterday....

Is your dd ill much? It is not much to hold on to, I know, but I try to tell myself that my children are rarely ill and other people's children are seemingly always off school so clearly mine have a better immune system than others.

DD wanted to go to breakfats club and we were up early so I stupidly said she could go and she came home tonight saying a big girl was lying on the carpet with a bowl .... Oh why did I send her

She can use the toilet then. IF she becomes ill. The chances are she won't.

Unfortunately there are no guarentees, you cannot know. I know how hard that aspect of emet is.

she probably had food poisoning which IS NOT CONTAGIOUS

do not worry

your DD will not be sick

she is fine

look at her, she looks fine doesn't she

remember it was food poisoning

OK will try that will have to wait 72hours to feel happy though

I know how you feel and have questionned dd tonight about what happened etc.

We've also just had it (I'm also phobic). But my theory is that you have to be in pretty close contact to catch it. A child actually throwing up over you, changing nappies or by sharing food with someone who has the bug. Your DD will be fine

I agree it is different this age when they are not sharing cups etc. And it was probably food poisoning. I am sure you dc did not go over to look and study any %£%$ or the bowl.

I know how you feel. Been suffering since I was a teenager.
Last time my niese was visiting and brought it to the house, I was crying down the phone line to my gp to prescribe me antiemetics just in case.

It will be ok.

DD woke up today with tummy ache but then had Breakfast was running round and wanted to go to school so I sent her (bad mummy). No phone calls yet. Somenody had been ... in carpark at school though. I have a sense of doom

Thanks Belgian Bun. her teacher was great and has just rang to say she is fine had a big lunch and happy.

As another emetephobe I have tortured myself on this and even looked it up on the Net in the past. Apparently the child is only contagious after the symptons have started. Since the child went home so early there was very little chance of your DD getting it - thre was no time for contact.

I panicked at end of last term when we turned up for DS's school production to see his best friend being lead away from school by his mother with a bowl in his hands. It was 2 days before DS's birthday and I really didn't want DS to be ill and ruin his birthday. Turned out the little boy was constipated which is what made him sick. It wasn't contagious so it was alright to allow him to the birthday party after that.

Think positive thoughts - it probably isn't contagious.

I had such a fright when I was picking up my son from his nursery a friday, and this little girl started choking and spluttering white liquied (milk I thought), I took my boy and ran out, panicked all weekend. And on monday, I asked this girl, "feeling better?", and the nursery teacher was non-plussed, so I reminded her of friday. She said, oh, but she had been drinking the paint, and was choking.

So I had worried for nothing the whole weekend.

That is the problem isn't it we orry over the slightest thing. A child off school, a child looking ill etc