Sick kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You were exposed long before the child started vomiting, OP.

And if this family gets “stomach bugs” frequently, you should look for food poisoning. Something is very wrong with a family that pukes that much.

This isn't actually true.

Stomach bugs are passed via particles of vomit or diarrhea. If the child picked it up at school, then there's no reason any virus germs would have been in the home.

That said, once the first child puked at home, all bets are off.

And for the record, unless every single surface of the home had been cleaned with a diluted bleach mixture, you could have been exposed to the bug for days after people stopped puking.

NP here. So you’re exposed with the first vomit. Too late after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You were exposed long before the child started vomiting, OP.

And if this family gets “stomach bugs” frequently, you should look for food poisoning. Something is very wrong with a family that pukes that much.

This isn't actually true.

Stomach bugs are passed via particles of vomit or diarrhea. If the child picked it up at school, then there's no reason any virus germs would have been in the home.

That said, once the first child puked at home, all bets are off.

And for the record, unless every single surface of the home had been cleaned with a diluted bleach mixture, you could have been exposed to the bug for days after people stopped puking.

NP here. So you’re exposed with the first vomit. Too late after that.

Right.

Technically it's possible to pass through fecal matter a few hours before first barf, but it's not like the flu where it's airborne and people can transmit just by breathing on you or whatever.

Just gotta wash your hands a lot and keep hands out of your mouth.

Change clothes and shower as soon as you get home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You were exposed long before the child started vomiting, OP.

And if this family gets “stomach bugs” frequently, you should look for food poisoning. Something is very wrong with a family that pukes that much.

This isn't actually true.

Stomach bugs are passed via particles of vomit or diarrhea. If the child picked it up at school, then there's no reason any virus germs would have been in the home.

That said, once the first child puked at home, all bets are off.

And for the record, unless every single surface of the home had been cleaned with a diluted bleach mixture, you could have been exposed to the bug for days after people stopped puking.

Last I knew, germs for stomach bugs were also resent in saliva (to a lesser degree) and fecal matter. Given that nannies change diapers or help kids wipe and young children have saliva EVERYWHERE, exposure doesn’t normally start at the first vomiting.

Also, many young children react to flu with vomiting as one of the symptoms. In that case, exposure is long before vomiting starts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You were exposed long before the child started vomiting, OP.

And if this family gets “stomach bugs” frequently, you should look for food poisoning. Something is very wrong with a family that pukes that much.

This isn't actually true.

Stomach bugs are passed via particles of vomit or diarrhea. If the child picked it up at school, then there's no reason any virus germs would have been in the home.

That said, once the first child puked at home, all bets are off.

And for the record, unless every single surface of the home had been cleaned with a diluted bleach mixture, you could have been exposed to the bug for days after people stopped puking.

Last I knew, germs for stomach bugs were also resent in saliva (to a lesser degree) and fecal matter. Given that nannies change diapers or help kids wipe and young children have saliva EVERYWHERE, exposure doesn’t normally start at the first vomiting.

Also, many young children react to flu with vomiting as one of the symptoms. In that case, exposure is long before vomiting starts.

Do you have a source that shows that stomach bug is present in saliva prior to puking? I had never heard that before.

And of course, if kids are vomiting because of the flu, strep, whatever, those viruses are spread differently than Noroviruses.