In short:

This morning, my 11 month old daughter Anna, has thrown up all over herself twice and twice shat herself so badly that the only way to deal with it was a bath for all concerned.

Is there any way I can save myself before tomorrow or should I just plan for a day in or near the bathroom?

Matt

P.S. Anna is now happily lying on the floor chewing a lion!

Keep her hydrated, try to keep feeding normal and stay near the bathroom 🙁

And if concerned because symptoms are escalating, call NHS direct.

Note, I am not a medical professional, but this advice worked for friends of ours. But it was grim.

Ensure you wash your hands and use anti bacterial soap from a dispenser, wipe clean anything you touch , and stay close to a toilet, it goes in about 48 hours and the symptoms come on quick, me and a neighbour had it recently.

Grim is about the word, from my perspective. The little-un appears to be laughing it off.

Thanks for the hydration reminder though.

Matt

It might be the rotavirus, which my daughter suffered recently. I also got it. It laid me low for a week and a half and I lost half a stone.

Anyway, my daughter got so bad we had to go to the hospital. They got us to give her 5ml of water every 5mins in a syringe (orally!), so as not to stress her tummy – rising to 10ml after an hour or so.

Might be worth trying that if she can’t keep it down normally.

Whichever one it is just keep things clean and keep her hydrated. Our daughter had a night in hospital this week due to this.

Thanks guys,

We’re disinfecting, washing, hydrating maniacs at the minute!

Matt

Had this problem a few years ago.. 2 key things to remember. Hydration, hydration, keep anyone effected drinking little and often, this on it’s own alleviates the worst of the symptoms (i.e crippling abdominal cramping).
The other thing is that you can continually get reinfected, having suffered one dose is no protection. So clean and disinfect everything involved, regularly. I ended up carrying antibacterial wipes around the house with me and wiping down everything I touched while I had it. Still got 3 rounds of it over the course of 2 weeks and ended up in an isolation room in hospital on a saline drip for 2 days..! It’s basically natures Picolax.!!!

I kept being sick in the yard…then hosing it away! ha ha

So weird as I would feel fine > violently sick > feel fine for 10minutes > repeat

Think it lasted about 10hours.

Hope the nipper gets better soon and that you don’t catch on!

Had this before Christmas and made the mistake of going to work before the ‘real’ symtpoms started. Cue a rapid retreat back home and some fireworks- fortunately managed to separate the 2 acts from happening simultaneously. Strangely while it was all going on I kept thinking back to the iconic Picolax thread that keeps re-appearing on here and wondering if perhaps it was an office prank. I don’t get ill often, but this had me off work for 2 days and feeling pretty rubbish for about 2 weeks. Seemed to affect my appetite and everything I ate for those 2 weeks made me feel ill again.

Would re-iterate the above stuff. Get some rest and keep drinking (water obviously!). I passed it on to the rest of the household and was not popular, so if you havn’t got it then you probably will.

Good luck!

It might be the rotavirus…….It laid me low for a week and a half and I lost half a stone.

A rival for the iDave Diet©?

I did look pretty trim afterwards. Bum still not fully recovered though.

There was a norovirus outbreak on Cycle Oregon in 2009. About a quarter of the riders were hit with it. That’s 500 folk in tents rushing to portaloos.

I was lucky as I have the constitution of a horse, though I did get the fever on the last day. I’ve never felt so weak on a bike.

Good luckto your daughter, it usually lasts two to three days.

as this is a virus, anti-bacterial soap is less than useless

but general hygiene is key.

If you get it, keep hydrated and good luck

ps i had it last week and it was reet grim

Been there myself. Fortunately, no little ones involved. Soapy water and WARM water is the key for bacteria. Lather for at least 20 sec. Then DRY your hands. Try not to touch your face. A thermometer is your friend! Good luck.

As someone said above anti bacterial stuff will do nothing. Both noro and rota are viruses. The only things that will work are bleach and stuff like the alcohol hand gel. And even then you will be lucky to avoid it. However good luck.

antibacterial wipes / soaps will have some effect on viruses – they re disinfectants so will kill viruses as well Depending on the type of course)- that why we use them in hospitals to prevent cross infection

IIRC its airborne droplet infection so its almost impossible to stop from getting it if youa re dealing with cleaning up the mess. I have had it a couple of times from working in hospitals. Not fun.

YOu should also avoid contact with other people as much as you possibly can