Tips for when child has vomiting virus

[sunflowers365]

My daughter had a vomiting virus this weekend and the amount of laundry was through the roof. I’m totally exhausted. Are there any tips on how to keep the house clean and reduce laundry (and cleaning in general) when a vomiting virus hits? Thanks in advance!

Sick bed! Basically a blow up mattress/lilo thing with sides. They sleep in there with a blanket, then if they miss the sick bowl just wipe the bed down and replace the blanket. Saves faffing with sheets and duvet covers etc.

I cover the bed and pillows in towels, and put a bowl or bucket for sick right by their head. Then I lay with them for a couple of hours until most of the sick is up so I can quickly give them the bucket when I think they are going to be sick, and remove any towels as they get dirty. Then in the morning do a big hot wash for the towels. Hang in there!

Keep a barf bowl next to her at all times including at night. Teach her to always puke in the bowl

As others have said, a bowl and lots of towels. Lie them on a towel in bed as it's easier to hot wash towels than change a whole bed. Bicarbonate of soda is great for neutralising the smell, but you need to get every single bit by cleaning thoroughly. (My dds had asthma when young, which caused coughing and being sick regularly).

1. If you store bedding under the bed, remove it. Do the same for every child, even if they don’t feel sick just yet. This avoids all the clean bedding being splattered.
2. Tie up princess canopies - vomit doesn’t improve them (voice of hard experience).
3. Good luck.

Its very infectious, careful hygiene to avoid spreading.

Thank you so much everyone. Really appreciate this.

Line the route from their bed to the bathroom with towels.

I found by accident that the toilet step is ideal as a bucket because it curves right under the chin and round the neck. Gross but so helpful.

1 More than 1 sick bucket to hand - use bin liners in upstairs bins so you can pull the rubbish out and use the bin.
2 multiple layers of bed sheets - I only do this for my youngest now but it goes 1 protector, 1 fitted sheet, 1 protector 1 fitted sheet. Waterproof protectors are best. Any incidents sweep up the sheets and dump in the bath, you will already have a fresh sheet all ready. At the height of nursery bugs I’d add extra layers.
3 have a spare duvet and pillow made up - I always have one in the linen cupboard so we can just throw straight on the bed and focus on dc rather than making up bedding.
4 don’t move them, wait until they have finished throwing up, be that on the floor in the bed. Moving them just escalated what’s happening and spreads the vomit. So try and keep them throwing up in the one spot.
5 NO TEDDIES so many poor soft toys have lost their lives to vomit in this house.

Bed mats - under the sheet at the head end. A god send for my DS who used to vomit every time he had a whiff of a temperature. Along with a bowl permanently under his bed!

We had some puppy pads left over from a Homebirth. Godsend. Good to go on the carpet near/tucked under the bed

I second the trail of towels between their bed and the bathroom although cheap fleece blankets dry really quickly which is useful

I like to start the night with an empty washing machine and have been known to bung lightly soiled stuff on in the middle of the night. It's surprisingly satisfying when you get woken up again and you can't hear the washing machine running and that means you had a solid block of 2hr 12 sleep between voms.

Oh, Dettol or similar on the toilet flush handle and also if possible bathroom door handle and light switch. Key places for passing on germs