All Done!...No...Seriously...All. Done.

Try taking an immune boost vitamin daily, everyone in the family, along with in addition to a multivitamin daily. It should at least have extra vitamin C, zinc, and echinacea. I have a cousin who worked in a lab where they did scientific tests on viruses and stuff, he was because of his job exposed to the viruses daily to a certain extent. He told me the best thing he has found for the immune system is Airborne. Its a tablet that fizzes in water and you drink it. They make it for kids and adults. Start taking it every day. I hope this gets better! Hang in there! Oh yeah, and while the bugs are going around, use lysol disinfecting wipes go around and wipe all door knobs, drawer handles, fridge handle, phones, remotes, at least once or twice a day, as often as possible.

L. C.

I have no suggestions. I'm sorry. I had to write though, to tell you how sorry I am to hear you are all so sick. I hope things start looking up soon, my friend.

Sending you strength and calm and hoping for good rest to all of you.

I'm so sorry! It's awful! I don't know that you can take anything to ward these things off, but what you HAVE to do is clean your house hard and keep it spic-n-span. Not talking about super-organized. I mean disinfected. Doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, phone mouthpiece, stuff like this. Walking around squirting the antiseptic gel in your hands at usual intervals, that kind of thing.

As the weather gets better, airing out the house so that you get clean air replacing the closed up air helps too. So does taking walks outside after you've gotten your strength back.

I hope so much you all get through this soon.

Sending you strength!!
Dawn

Sending you hugs and prayers for health!

Try to wipe down all surfaces several times a day with clorox wipes or a bleach and water mixture.

Wash all sheets with bleach.

Try to open your windows, even if only for a 15 minute period if it's cold where you are, to air out your home.

Keep the sick contained to one area of the house and one bathroom so you don't have so much to clean.

Keep everyone sipping gatorade or ginger ale all day. SMALL sips every 20 minutes so no one gets dehydrated and ends up in the hospital.

Hope it ends soon. You've been through enough!

Thank your husband for his service and sacrifices to our country!!! Thank you for making the moves!!

Are you at Mildenhall or Lakenheath? Either way - great assignment!!

I understand being "Done"!!! All of you have been sick? I would say it's time to get the clorox out and start wiping down the walls, door knobs, shower knobs, any touchable surface to get rid of the bacteria that is causing it.

Then wash all of the sheets and bed linens...yeah...not fun...not a good day. but it will help.

Vitamin C - the chewable kind do work. Lots of water helps as well. If you aren't sick, go to the BX and purchase face masks so you can help cut down the chances of you getting it.

Green tea helps too...

washing hands frequently...that's the biggest thing...making sure hands are washed after sneezing and blowing the nose...

I am truly sorry that you are going through this!!! Hope everyone is well soon!!

How miserable!

When I was little I went through a bout of throwing up that would come on with little or no notice.
Made it very difficult to get to the bathroom on time.
My Mom had me use my overnight sleeping bag and had me sleep in the hallway outside the bathroom door.
Of course by THEN I slept fine through the night on the hall way floor.

When in a new environment you are exposed to new germs and it takes time to build up an immunity to them.
But you'll get there eventually.
Keep all your fluids up.
Warm ginger ale sipping slowly all around if they can keep anything down at all.
Break out the barf buckets if you have to.

(WHY has Hubby migrated from bathroom to bathroom?
When you toss your cookies you stay in one bathroom, use the toilet/sink/tub till you are down to dry heaves and there's nothing left to come up, and clean up after yourself if you're an adult.)

If there's anything good about a rotavirus type bug, once you've had it, you are generally over it and immune for about 10 years.

We are just coming out of one now. We moved to FL about three months ago from NY and I swear this is the first time since the end of December that I would say we are all "well".

We asked our new pediatrician and she said that the best things to do are:
1. Wash hands frequently (duh)
2. Launder clothing and linens frequently (allergens)
3. Shower at night (so you don't get your pillows covered in germs and allergens)
4. Open the windows and "air out" the house
5. Fluids and sleep

Nothing Earth shattering, but we're there too. It stinks, but it does go away. Oh... stock up on Clorox and Lysol!

The ONLY homeopathic stuff I have ever used is Zicam!!!! I think it's just for colds but you might want to check it out. It's kind of expensive, like $12 a box, but it's soooo worth it! You use it at the 1st sign of illness for it to work its best. I know it may not help you with what you guys have/had but you might want to keep it around just in case... I wish I could have been more help. Hope you guys feel better! : )

So sorry to hear this! Hopefully the weather get warmer soon and these winter germs will go away (although you are in the UK. Does it actually get warm there?).

You can take daily multivitamins with extra Vitamin C, echinacea, probiotics, lots of orange juice, citrus fruits, and yogurt or kefir.

Sanitize everything, spray Lysol throughout the house, and open all of the windows to air it out.

**Also try and sequester the sick person to one bedroom/bathroom to try and keep the germs contained**

I'm so sorry to hear this!
We are just coming out of a somilar illness streak. There are 7 of us, and 5 had the stomach flu (3-5 day strain), and then on top of that, my oldest brought home a cough at the same time, and everyone who had the stomach but got the cough afterward.
For the puking, your best friend in the world will be the largest plastic kitchen bowl you can find. Put it right next to your child (even in the bed) until she is better (lay beach/bath towel under it). This has saved MANY a sheet in my house! We put the bowl in any kid's room who even has a slight tummy ache these days! They can throw up in it, and you can just dump it and rinse it, and back it goes.
You know the rest: fluids, and sleep.

What mamduck said, be sure to scrub down every surface. This round of stomach bug is bad, we had it go round and round until I cleaned the house from top to bottom. Not just cleaned, you could do surgery in my house.

Hope you guys feel better!

Having just been through the stomach flu, my advice is to clean every surface of your house with water/bleach mixture. Certain viruses are only killed with bleach (like norovirus), and can live outside the body for many days. Trust me- no matter what you take, your immune system is no match for norovirus.

I had a winter like this. We just moved last September, and we had some pretty major illnesses this winter, including TWO separate cases of the Norovirus and a couple of other stomach bugs, plus this Rhinovirus that is going around right now that wipes you out for 2+ weeks.

I haven't found anything that works yet, but I'm interested in reading the responses.

Yes when you ove you move to a different culture, climate and that mix gets to your system. You have also changed continents and what they have there is different from what you are used to here in the States.

When we moved to Germany from Nevada, my daughter and I got sick but hubby and daughter didn't.

So you have to build up your immune system again. Once this is over you guys should be good to go until you return stateside.

Do remember to tour the rest of the world over there and take lots of photos for reminders. The European continent is only a chunnel or ferry ride away. In other words get off the post or base and see the real people in their real world.

the other S.

stomach virus ran throught our house twice.. pretty crappy first time around, brutal the second.. before tthat it was a mild sinus infection/cold .. both seemed to spread the same way too.. first my fiance, then me, then our 8month old then my mom&dad... lo0oads of fun

I am just starting to dabble in the homeopathic and other methods of healing. Reading up about preventing cancer and alkaline diet. I do not know enough but read recently about having enough iodine in your diet! what! here is a link and it looks like acv helps with a lot of things. be you can find a natural fix it here
http://www.earthclinic.com/remedies.html

Enchinaesa (sp) for immune system. Cinnamon for tummy upsets from vomiting to diarehha.

So sorry this is happening. I would talk to your local pharmacist -- we visit the UK annually and I find that the "chemists" are generally good about advice; they even may talk about homeopathic things to do, but overall, you can't really build immunity to stomach viruses -- they aren't like colds.

Be sure you confine a sick family member to just ONE bathroom. When one of us is sick with anything, especially anything gastrointestinal, that person is confined to one bedroom and one bathroom and we keep the door into the outside world shut! Use santizing wipes all day long on all doorknobs -- that is a very common place for people to pick up viruses. Also use sanitizing wipes on the edges of doors if your family tends to grab the door to open it rather than the knob. Sanitize the phone so you don't get it from your sick husband using it. Truly, it does help -- I do it constantly when someone's ill and I think it helps avoid spreading things, as does isolating the sick person and forbidding others to use the same bathroom (unless you have only one bathroom and it sounds like you have more than one). As someone else noted, wash sheets and pillowcases AND towels daily if needed -- hottest water, strongest detergent, bleach if you can; that too helps prevent the sick person from getting re-infected. Be sure your carpet cleaner is also a disinfectant or even if it looks clean, it could still harbor virus, just as any surface can.

I'd also keep buckets or large bowls (line them with paper towels for easier clean-out) next to everyone. Seriously. Even a hint of hurting stomach means an accompanying receptacle, whatever room you're in, around here. Saves a lot of unsuccessful dashes to the bathrooms and the cleanup that then follows. Disinfect the bowls/trashcans/whatever receptacle you use, if someone vomits in it.

If you have a "mud room" type of sink (not sure what they'd call it in the UK and husband's not here to ask...) use THAT and not the kitchen or bathroom sink to clean out anything with vomit on it! Or else use the bathtub -- easier to spray that down with disinfectant and rinse than to scrub out a kitchen sink repeatedly and maybe forget just once....

I really, really hope things get better. Preventing the spread by doing a ton of annoying but essential stuff like cleaning doorknobs repeatedly is really going to do more than building immunity, at this point.

get some promethazine-and good luck!