Gastro. Get up and go! - Mouths of Mums

A change of seasons quite often brings bugs. I am pretty sure a stuffy classroom full of 5 year olds on a cold winter’s day also brings bugs. That’s when gastro strikes.

A few weeks ago my youngest did the unthinkable, he vomited in the car, all over himself whilst I was doing the school run. It was my own fault, well not the vomiting part, that’s a bug that lurches itself, out of control via the mouth.

The car seat and him, that was my fault. I knew he wasn’t feeling well. I had no choice but to put him in the car though. I had to drop the other two at school. I had grabbed a plastic bag thinking for a split second if he does vomit, he can vomit into that.

Good thinking. Yes…

Only one problem though. I didn’t hand it to him soon enough. Not more than a minute after my eldest got out of the car did it happen.

It starts with a cough and you just know it’s going to get nasty.

I reached and threw the bag to him whilst negotiating a right hand turn. For a split second I could have been rally driving considering the skill that it took to do that..

Have you seen that Ikea ad? ‘GRAB THE CAR, GRAB THE CAR” Yep I sounded just like her except I was yelling “GRAB THE BAG, GRRRRAAAABBBB THE BAG!!!!”

Too little too late, and unlike the Ikea ad, it was not a happy ending. Vomit everywhere. That bag that was meant to save the carseat made it worse. It just served as a slippery platform for the projecting vomit to travel on.

So this brings me to today.

Middle child wakes with a funny tummy. Ahhhhh ahhh moment, grab a bag for the car trip. Just.in.case.

Grasshopper has learnt well, said bag given to said child early on and what do you know, that lurching out of control bug is contained!

Gastro and cars do not bode well. Although today was a win for me and no carseat to clean up either!

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214 Comments

- - relish said
  - 13 Sep 2015
    7:27 pm
The worst is when the vomit hits the windscreen from the backseat and is running rapidly down the inside of the screen towards the aircon vents that was my nightmare with a suddenly travel sick young man at 100km per hour a hasty retreat to pull over and stop that material!! and in the middle of a drought no less in a country town with tank water the clean up was not good!
- aimless replied
  
  07 Nov 2015 , 3:45 pm
  omgosh that sounds awful!!! You poor thing.
- - hmp88 said
  - 13 Sep 2015
    7:18 pm
If 1 kid out of 3 is sick with gastro id quarantine them all coz its so easily shared…

- - mom113055 said
  - 19 May 2015
    1:32 pm
this is great to read

- - mom113991 said
  - 31 Mar 2015
    11:03 pm
lol poor you….nothing worse than sick kids

- - cherz said
  - 14 Jan 2015
    1:02 pm
Can remember one of my little daring vomiting in the lounge chair, the chair was just never the same after that.
Thanks for sharing and best wishes for good health everyone.

- - mom94125 said
  - 03 Jan 2015
    10:34 pm
my kids had this one time and thank god it wasn’t too bad for my eldest child but my baby got it at 6months and yeah that was scary to watch my baby projectile vomit everywhere. i made a few doctor’s trips to make sure they were fine and i had to get that second opinion but all i wanted to do was let them stay in bed. lucky there were no issues while we were waiting.

- - mom93821 said
  - 20 Dec 2014
    6:24 am
Thanks for sharing this article; can relate to this!

- - mom82590 said
  - 02 Nov 2014
    9:35 pm
Good thinking second time around

- - mom57522 said
  - 28 Sep 2014
    2:01 pm
Gastro and cars, not a great mix!

- - ginoula5 said
  - 28 Aug 2014
    6:46 pm
Seems in our family when one gets it everyone does, nightmarish days when we all have it :/

- - kazh said
  - 26 Aug 2014
    9:54 am
Know it will happen to me one day. Still pretending that it won’t.

- - rachkap said
  - 09 Aug 2014
    3:52 am
Gastro – what a nightmare! Thanks for sharing

- - Dennis12 said
  - 25 Jul 2014
    10:00 am
Yep been there done that. The worst part is getting rid of the smell

- - nida saeed said
  - 29 Jun 2014
    12:02 pm
yep we have all been there, done that…no fun, thankfully gastro dosen,t stay forever

- - mom57176 said
  - 20 Jun 2014
    6:36 pm
The smell seems to hang around forever arrrrg

- - mums-info said
  - 01 Jun 2014
    1:23 pm
isint that just the worse

- - scottie said
  - 31 May 2014
    10:39 am
I swear they wait until they are in the car to let it all go – like some sort of inbuilt sensor

- - mom57522 said
  - 29 May 2014
    1:51 pm
Hate having to wash and clean the car seat.

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 27 May 2014
    10:56 pm
oh my, the times the family feels their worst is when we all have gastro,

- - christial said
  - 13 May 2014
    9:43 pm
It seems gastro likes to tour the whole family so no one feels left out