Norovirus - it's shit!

littlegreenman

Day 3 of having it. Sunday was the sweats, shivers, aches and cramps. Yesterday was projectile everything! Not too bad today so far but I still seem to have a water jet attached to my arse

Going to try and eat later, wish me luck.

Phil_aka_Pip

Hope you feel better soon, lgm. Try whisky, it might help.

stickyfiddle

Good luck! I had what I'm pretty sure was the dreaded noro a few years back. It made me miss my Dad's 60th birthday. Absolutely the most explosively ill I've ever been. 

ESBlonde

Keep your fluids up seems to be the advice. Plenty of water so you don't dehydrate. You have my (distant) sympathy.

boogieman

Had that on holiday in Morocco. Nasty! As above, lots of fluids help, Dioralyte (sp?) is even better.

axisus

We deal with noro stuff at work (public health england). A case a few years ago: a kitchen worker in a restaurant threw up in the stainless steel salad sink. They cleaned it up with disinfectant but it wasn't strong enough to defeat Noro, and 30 people got it that day! Yeuchhh! Salad with Norovirus topping! 

stonevibe

I started on Friday and am still ill.

littlegreenman

@stonevibe, I feel your pain

randomhandclaps

Best wishes to you guys.  The wife, the kids and I all had it at one point last year.  Such was the horror that the slightest bug the kids show we have a panic in case that's what it is again.

ToneControl

Make sure you take rehydration salts. This is really important, as I learnt when I spent a week with what I assume was Salmonella: felt like I was in a trance for days, couldn't drive, then as soon as I got the salts, I was back in the room. The pharmacist told us the fallback treatment is sugary drinks and salted crisps

And try not to cough....

randomhandclaps

^ Definitely. We got some of those rehydration powders for the kids initially and they bounced back to life and then we took them and although nowhere near brilliant, it was far better.  If you can stomach it then ice cream is very good for it as well.

For accuracy the thread title should read "Norovirus - it's shits & vomit".

viz

I think it's sick.

littlegreenman

Managed to get to Boots and back without any "incidents"! :-O

Got a box of Dioralyte rehydration powders, much better than just water.

Much as I appreciate the sentiment @Phil_aka_Pip, I don't think alcohol would be a good idea right now considering how dehydrated I am

Phil_aka_Pip

Maybe whisky is better for bacterial infections than viral ones. Although it does relieve flu symptoms ...

johnnyurq

You have my sympathies dude I had it two years on the trot and the first one was bad but the second one was horrific.

Explosive decompression, fevers, barfing for my country and no sleeping or eating for 5 days were shit. Couldn't even hold on to water or Dioralyte so ended up with a night in hospital for fluids and anti barf stuff.

Keep well hydrated and try to eat summat because they were what made hospital a necessity.

Dry heaving and no matter in your body is epically bad, took about 6 weeks to return to something approaching normal.

Hope it shifts soon @littlegreenman and get loads of rest too.

holnrew

I had vomiting and diarrhoea briefly last week,, with the stomach pains and fever and stuff. Lasted about an hour, that was plenty! I have sympathy.

Grunfeld

axisus said:

We deal with noro stuff at work (public health england). A case a few years ago: a kitchen worker in a restaurant threw up in the stainless steel salad sink. They cleaned it up with disinfectant but it wasn't strong enough to defeat Noro, and 30 people got it that day! Yeuchhh! Salad with Norovirus topping! 

If I remember this correctly you only need about 10 of the little fuckers in your mouth and you WILL get ill the next day.

It is not killed by alcohol hand washes or gels.  You have to mechanically remove it from your hands with soap, water, and rubbing.

When someone barfs or shits explosively then a wonderful aerosol of norovirus fills the air.  When someone gets it on a hospital ward then pretty much half the ward is going down.  Gloves, masks, aprons, and hand washing, hand washing, hand washing.  It can live happily on your hands all day and you won't get ill, but get ten or more of them in your mouth and you're getting it.

Did I say hand washing?  And proper hand washing at that.  Fucking tedious but better than norovirus.

littlegreenman

Thanks for the concern and advice all

Spent the day sleeping a lot and rehydrating, slowly. I'm managing to retain fluids for the first time in 2 days now and have even kept down some toast so I'm hoping the boiled egg I just had will not make a reappearance. Almost starting to feel human again!

@Grunfeld, so does that mean you can re-infect yourself if not careful?

Grunfeld

littlegreenman said:

@Grunfeld, so does that mean you can re-infect yourself if not careful?

@littlegreenman I have no idea as it happens, good question.  I just remember we had a new infection control doc arrive last year and the guy was brilliant, told us how he got the infection rates down at his last place and said that's what we needed to do anywhere we work with this stuff -- mechanical hand washing with soap, water, and rubbing.  Alcohol gels are useless against viruses with the type of coating noro's got.  The bit that really struck home is how norovirus is fucking powerful, but only if it gets in your mouth.

I'll ask him when I see him again.