Child sick in night, cancel plans?

[Patrickstar550]

Hi everyone, my son was sick in the night, we have family coming round Christmas Eve and lots of gatherings Xmas day/Boxing Day. He was absolutely fine afterwards. Would you cancel plans?

Hard to say without an idea of what caused it. How old is he, is he at nursery / school?

if you think it came from other children I’d cancel Christmas Eve and keep Christmas/ Boxing Day plans assuming it was a one off but you’d need to know a bit more…

My lot have just had the sickness bug, so it's doing the rounds. I would but that's me.

Does he still feel sick?

He feels absolutely fine! He was fine immediately afterwards

Fo you mean he vomited just once? I don't think it's an automatic cancel depends on why. One of mine will vomit if he eats too much or just randomly sometimes, issues with reflux and constipation. Any young children or vulnerable older people coming? In this situation Id rather you let me know so I could decide for myself whether to come or not. That's assuming you don't prefer to cancel.

You know that means nothing though

Thought he would be poorlier if it was a virus?

4.5, can’t imagine he’s got it from school as he’s not been since Friday

has he a cold?
is he just excited?
i dont think i would cancel

my youngest was very often sick at christmas,
just excitement i think

Personally I wouldn't cancel until I'd seen how he was in the morning, see how he keeps food down and go from there. My 4 year old (and myself tbh£") are occasionally sick when something doesn't agree with us. He could just be excited too tbh. If he's sick again then yeah I would probs cancel.

No not always, it affects people differently. If we have D&V we rarely feel ill. another family once who caught same bug and were really unwell. Plenty of bugs take a few days to come on it’s not unthinkable from school.

Good he’s not unwell himself but only you can decide

I would see how he is in the morning. Possibly it’s something he’s eaten or over eaten iyswim but you will know more in the morning.

I might warn people in advance and not be too offended if people choose not to come.

I have a heart condition and sickness is a serious contra indication for me, plus I’m about to be added to the transplant list so sickness is something I would definitely avoid at this point. But others might choose not to.

I'd be totally fuming and really upset if you let me come over and then my kids got sick over Christmas.

Please, at least let people know so they can make their own minds up.

Not another post like this…
You have to isolate for 48hrs from the last bout of sickness to ensure bugs don’t spread. The reason these bugs are ‘doing the rounds’ at the moment is because so many people say ‘but little Jimmy felt fine after so I carried on’.
Unless your child has a known medical condition which causes vomiting, and this is a regular part of managing his health, then you absolutely should cancel Christmas Eve plans and sadly, Christmas Day too.
Id be so annoyed if a family member with norovirus attended a gathering and made me unwell so I missed my other plans. Not to mention this can be dangerous for elderly or pregnant people
Its common for children to be sick just once, but still be contagious.

Totally cancel. It's so not fair to take the risk.

Did he eat something strange yesterday? I remember one Christmas when my youngest had a bad tuna sandwich bought when out and about. But this was quite obvious - she started to feel nauseous after about 1-2 hours, vomited violently and was completely fine after.

Perhaps check what he had eaten the day before or if he had been in contact with anything that may have been a catalyst.

I’d ask what the people you have plans with want you to day?

DC did this a couple of years ago- sick once, then fine. I honestly thought it was a one off- until I started throwing up the next afternoon, and was in bed for 2 days with it 🫣

We've had this with our DDs and it's been a bug because they've both done it, and then DH was sick a couple of days later.

As an absolute minimum you need to let people know so they can decide to not visit you.

The reason these bugs are ‘doing the rounds’ at the moment is because so many people say ‘but little Jimmy felt fine after so I carried on’.

Definitely.

You need either to cancel or to inform everyone at the gatherings you intend taking someone to within 48 hours.

They are many people who have good reason not to put themselves into contact with someone they know to be an infection risk.

Yes, they might encounter someone who is pre-symptomatic but infectious. But that’s no reason to add to their risk by taking a vomitous one out into gatherings.

Even if you’re hell bent on going, everyone else (guests as well as hosts) needs a change to withdraw because of this

This happened to us last year, did the rounds of the whole family, some worse than others. I’m pretty sure it was norovirus from the symptoms the adults got.
It might be infectious, it might not. You have no way of telling. At the very least I think you need to warn your guests so they can make their own choice. I would definitely avoid after last year, it was awful.

I really hope you don’t get what we had but I think the right thing to do is cancel plans unfortunately.

You need to see if others are happy to be exposed to a stomach bug... It's very rude not to.

How do you know it was the same D&V bug?

OP please inform your guests and let them make their own informed decision.