are people really buying into this novovirus panic?

[Twiglett]

ok I can understand emetaphobes being concerned at it hitting the news

but I can't help looking at the news and thinkging 'slow news day is it?'

bugs always go round, isn't novovirus just a catch-all for these types of gastric bugs (much as rhinovirus is for colds)

mild winter means more bugs go round

it's a mild D&V bug normally (any illness can be dangerous for the very young, very old and imuno-impaired)

what am I missing?

Should have kicked him with your pot, KM

Oh, haven't you got a pot? I assumed with a broken foot you would have (but have missed all but fragments of the story)

(pot=plaster cast)

DH took some Immodium (appears he had not actually taken any when I called him) and is now okay - Thank God!
So he is not, in fact, spreading the lurgy as it can't of been the super bug.

*have been, can't have been.

Never mind, chuck - glad it was not the lurgy, anyway, after reading how he gets when he's really ill

KM I'm glad you have got a nice light one now - I've been lucky enough never to have broken anything that needed a pot and I always thought they looked excruciatingly horrid.

my girls have had a puking bug over xmas, they were weak and just laid on the sofa with a sick bowl, luckily it didn't come oout the other end too. I hope that I dont get it, can't stand puking..

LOTF, I am so glad dh is feeling better!

I try to use more natural cleaning products usually and detest bleach for environmental reasons, but I may have to go out and buy some antibacterial cleaners and bleach for the loo. Anything I can to minimize this bug spreading inside the house.

I can't avoid the dc picking it up at school, but perhaps, just perhaps I can limit it to JUST the children once they come home with it....

Another thought, would boosting the dc's immune system with extra vits help them to avoid catching this?

Ds is just getting over chickenpox, dd has a cold, so immune system weak anyway, does that make them more likely to catch this norobug?

WAs it around in November? If so, we might have had it...dd2 had D&V for a week, and was nearly hospitalized (under 1 at the time); dh felt very sick and rough but didn't actually vomit; I had the D bit and not the V and was off my food and tired; dd1 (4) was slightly off her food but fine.

Could it have been? [hopeful emoticon]

hippo, I had similar thought with term looming, but suspect d&V is more luck than immune system. We can but try, though!

I'm scared of this, partic as I have a crap immune system.
I got this the other year when staying at my sisters. We both had newborns and I had a toddler too. Our dh's were away. We both got it within half an hour of each other, there was only one loo and we were taking it in turns and using all sorts of bowls etc, both ends, then simultaneously the babies and toddler started, we were up all night trying to clean up the babies and oursleves and hardly being able to stand, it was the most hideous hideous night ever, when the dhs got back the next morning we handed over the sick children and went to bed for the day. Horrible thing.

We all had it last Christmas. I'm resigned to having these bugs from time to time. DD1 also suffers allergies so vomit comes as standard in this house. I'm certainly better prepared than I used to be - it's shocking how much bedlinen 5 sick people can get through in 2-3 days.

Dettox spray for loo handles, door handles, taps etc.
More plastic bowls available.
Cheap, spare duvets & pillows.
Plenty of extra sets of bedlinen.
Large binbag/polythene bag for storing dirty bedlinen separately until it can be rinsed & washed.
Pampers bedmat things for protecting mattresses.
A cupboard full of drugs.
Bottled water/tinned soup for recovery.

And endless hand-washing.