Impending doom

[Nazgul Girl]

Sorry - I hope you all had your flu shots.    I hope your nephew feels better.   Oh boy !!

[busymom]

Ouch! (That's why I don't "lip kiss" other people's kids.)

When my kids were younger, my SIL was ALWAYS bringing her sick kids to family celebrations. (At least I had enough sense to keep mine home, even if it meant missing an event or two.) Because her kids were infecting everyone else, I consider her to be the "Typhoid Mary" of the family.

BTW, don't forget the crackers & the chicken soup!

[chiver78]

add some Airborne or Emergen-C to up your immune system strength, too. it's too late to prevent getting sick now, but it will help make you stronger to fight it quicker.

<hugs>

[Cookies Galore]

Oof, if your nephew has the both ends rot gut then good luck! Gastroenteritis is the worst! But I do appreciate how its onset is at night and not while you're out. At least it has been for me!

[sesfw]

Hope things go OK for you. Maybe your nephew just ate too much and his system rebelled.  Thinking positive thoughts.

Chicken soup is great for replenishing body fluids and the touch of salt on saltines will help also.

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Feb 8, 2014 11:15:00 GMT -5 @tbird said:

Feb 8, 2014 9:57:29 GMT -5 @wrongsideof30 said:

I spent HOURS at a family get together last night and my sister texted me this morning that my nephew woke up at 5am throwing up (and other things!). I kissed him yesterday (on his lips!) and my kids were wrestling around with him. I just know we're all going to get it. We usually throw up together as a family once a year. Worst tradition ever. We have one bathroom.

I just wanted to complain. I better get to the store and pick up some gatorade.


 

the minute I have any exposure - I start up on echinacea and goldenseal and yarrow - whichever I have on hand.

Get everyone onto oranges, etc. You may not prevent - but maybe lessen severity.

Do you have anything with zinc in it? lozenges, etc.

Unless I forget about the zinc and Vit.C, when exposed, like I did last month, I don't catch it. No vaccines in our family, as we prefer to get our immunity the natural way, whining and crying for a week. 

[Tiny]

Zinc's a double edged sword - too much and it upsets your digestive tract causing 'stomach flu' like symptoms.  You might want to take zinc but watch out how much...  you don't want to pop a 'zinc' pill and then start drinking some potion with zinc in it a couple three four times a day and couple that with some zinc filled lozenges you are only suppose to have 2 or 3 of a DAY but instead eat like candy while watching TV.    With zinc - 'less is more'    more won't make you feel better - it may make you feel worse.   

Just saying... I have a friend who, bless her heart, who takes a lot of OTC things when she 'feels sick' and I sometimes think she makes herself 'sick' in a different way.   I worry about her overdosing on acetaminophen (Tylenol) because she'll take a couple Tylenol pills for her fever, a couple of 'back pain' pills for her back pain, and then drink some OTC stuff for her stuffy head - all of which are loaded with acetaminophen.       She's very "if I wasn't suppose to treat each symptom separately, why are there 'medication' for each individual symptom?"      

Kinda like how a male co-worker was begging for a pain reliever specifically for "migrane headache" and refused to take my "extra strength" excedrin - because it wasn't for migrane and he had a migrane.    I think one of the ladies also offered him some 'PMS pain relief" OTC pills as well.    We had to go online and SHOW him (and the lady with the PMS pills) that all 3 products contained exactly the same ingredients (caffeine, acetaminophen, aspirin) in the exact same amounts from the SAME company.   We compared the brand my migrane suffering co-worker liked to my Excedrin  and OMG!  all the ingredients where the same!   The marketing just wants you to buy the same product multiple time for different aches and pains.     So, those 5 different boxes of Tylenol 'special use' pain relievers - may all be the same thing.

Read the labels before loading up on multiple products to solve different 'aches and pains' -  you may only need one  

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I know, crazy, but I think you can make yourself sick simply by thinking you will get sick.

[Tennesseer]

Keep everyone's winter jackets handy by the back door.  They can throw up outside.  Bathroom only for 'back end' emergencies.

[NoNamePerson]

Feb 8, 2014 13:04:07 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

I know, crazy, but I think you can make yourself sick simply by thinking you will get sick.

Then you and I are both crazy because I feel the same way. I have a friend who stays sick from worring about being sick  

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

I hope it's just a false alarm!

[Phoenix84]

It'll be a family bonding experience. You'll look back on it later and laugh.

[NastyWoman]

Feb 8, 2014 14:59:54 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

I hope it's just a false alarm!

[thyme4change]

There have been a couple of times that we have all been in close contact, and eating the same food, and just one of us will get it.  I remember once we had done a whole bunch of stuff, including a very athletic game of disc golf.  We bought some gatorade and all drank from the same bottle, and then came home and ate twice-frozen turkey for dinner.  My son threw up and no one else did.  I'm thinking that he dehydrated himself while we were out in the desert.  He was making that game even more effort than it already was.  I was in a panic for days, but the rest of us skipped that one.  Maybe you will get lucky.

[Sum Dum Gai]

If you need to get a little zinc in your system I can help you out.

[Miss Tequila]

Feb 8, 2014 16:07:51 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

If you need to get a little zinc in your system I can help you out.

<<gasp>>. Are you offering to get her pregnant??

[NoNamePerson]

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Feb 9, 2014 9:45:53 GMT -5 @wrongsideof30 said:

I hope I'm not jinxing us by saying this, but everyone made it through the night ok.   Hopefully we're in the clear.

Doesn't it take 3 days to come down with something you've been exposed to?

[mmhmm]

Feb 9, 2014 10:08:26 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

Feb 9, 2014 9:45:53 GMT -5 @wrongsideof30 said:

I hope I'm not jinxing us by saying this, but everyone made it through the night ok.   Hopefully we're in the clear.

Doesn't it take 3 days to come down with something you've been exposed to?

It depends on what you're exposed to.  Different contagious illnesses have different incubation periods.

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Feb 9, 2014 10:12:32 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Feb 9, 2014 10:08:26 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

Doesn't it take 3 days to come down with something you've been exposed to?

It depends on what you're exposed to.  Different contagious illnesses have different incubation periods.

I didn't know this. For instance?

[mmhmm]

Feb 9, 2014 10:17:49 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

Feb 9, 2014 10:12:32 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

It depends on what you're exposed to.  Different contagious illnesses have different incubation periods.

I didn't know this. For instance?

Off the top of my head, norovirus is 24-48 hours.  Influenza is 1 to 4 days.  Measles is a week to three weeks.


ETA:  I forgot to mention one that always sticks in my mind.  Mononucleosis is a whopping month to month-and-a-half!