How likely is sibling sickness after a brief exposure to a used lolly?

[Rosie47593]

Help!

Had a horrendous start to the week. My eldest child was very sick on Monday going into Tuesday. He was sick once on Tuesday night and again 2am Thursday morning. No sickness since then and seems back to normal today.

We managed to avoid his toddler brother catching it so far but my youngest got hold of a lollypop belonging to my eldest and took a tiny lick.

I know this is a how long is a piece of string question but how likely is it that my other child will get sick?

I have been so careful with bleaching, washing etc and thought we were coming out the other side of this :(

You need to divide the number of licks the first child had by the number of licks the second child had, multiplied by the number of hours between licks, divided by 0.72 because it happened on a Thursday.

Out of interest what sort of answer were you were expecting?
Good luck and I hope he doesn’t get it.

Is there any need? The OP has clearly had a bad week, did kicking her when she’s down make you feel clever?

She asked the chances of him getting it. An unanswerable question. Yes, I found it amusing coming up with a nonsense answer.
I also wished her luck.

Thank you so much for your message to that person! I guess I should have expected all sorts of replies on mumsnet and I don't quite know what I was hoping to achieve with my message but I really appreciate you responding to them.
It truly has been a hellish week. I was on my own when my eldest was at his worst as my husband was away for work.
My child seems to be ok so far though🤞🏼
I was at my wits end last night worrying but am just going to have to embrace it if it happens 🙈

Op ignore the idiotic answer.
hopefully he’ll be ok. My kids have done similar and they’ve not gotten sick (if they’re not already sick).

I wasn't going to respond to you but I do understand that I was asking a question that couldn't really be answered. I was just at my wits end and panicking but if it happens, it happens!
Hopefully you don't panic as much as I do if you have been or do find yourself in the same position at some point.

The fact that you found someone else’s distress amusing says far more about you than it does them. Next time you are going through something I sincerely hopes nobody laughs at you.

Sorry to hear this OP, I always say that the worst bit of parenting isn’t sleepless nights etc. it’s sickness bugs!
I was often on my own when my DC were little & my worst fear was me catching a bug from them & therefore not being able to provide care for them.
I think you just have to see how it goes. Sometimes it goes through the whole family & sometimes just one person gets it. I’ve been amazed before that I’ve stayed well after caring for DC with sickness bugs & having been covered in it myself (sorry tmi.) Other times I’ve been so so careful & still caught it.
Sorry not much help but I understand your worries & fingers crossed your other DC (and you!) don’t catch it.

I think if the second child was going to get this, he would have had it by now, so chances are he will be fine.

It may not be the sort of sickness that is catching, just an ate something that disagreed. I doubt the lolly will play much part but if they have been touching all the same work surfaces, taps, etc, and breathing the same air, if it's catching and the toddler hasn't had the bug already they may well get it.

😂

The best thing for panic and catastrophisation is to laugh.

My friends do this with me and it helps you realise the reality of the situation

I generally find if 5 days go by after the last sickness with no one else being ill then they’re not going to be.

Laughing with friends probably is. Being laughed at by a stranger on the internet not so much.

Your friends do that with you because they know you well enough to know that you will respond positively to that. That is completely different to reading a message from a clearly anxious mother online and making fun of her.

I dont think she was being made fun of, it was a lighthearted tongue in cheek comment that was making light of the sityuation, not the OP

I am crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The person based placed to decide is probably the OP, and it doesn’t sound like she found it funny at all.

That’s an even more excessive use of emojis and hyperbole than my 15yo uses.

No. I found the wording of her question amusing. Not the situation. It was ill thought out of me. I apologise.
(It reminded me of the Faraway Tree books where they go up to a world with a crazy school teacher who sets similar questions and they have to try to come up with answers. )

Thank you for all the responses.

My youngest still seems ok at the moment! Will be watching him closely tonight. He has been playing with his brother for most of the week (aside from Tuesday - my eldest was sick 19 times in 11 hours!) so he has definitely been exposed anyways. Keeping my fingers crossed!

I do understand the humour side of things and that's how some people cope. I'm like that with other things but not sickness 😬
I was just so happy to almost be out of the woods so to speak and could finally relax 🙈 fingers crossed we are clear over the next 24 hours.

We were at a party last weekend and most of the children and adults were ill within 48 hours so definitely a bug.

I bloody hate sickness bugs! We have actually managed to avoid them for 6 years which is why this one has me up in arms!

Husband has now come down with it and my youngest has had diarrhea 😬 here we go again...