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How long until my daughter stops giving everyone stomach bug?
For the last 3 weeks, everyone my daughter comes into contact with contracts a tummy bug within 24-48 hours. The strange thing is SHE HASN'T HAD IT. I haven't had it either though both my baby son and husband have been very ill with it. We kept both of them away from people until they had been symptom free for 48 hours, but we are beginning to realise that it is the people that my daughter sees that come down with it. Clearly she should be going to school next week but I feel bad that everyone she comes into contact with gets ill! How long will this last? What on earth is going on? I thought only those with symptoms were carriers...
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If your daughter hasn't had it, why are you accusing her of spreading it? Your son and husband are the carriers, not your daughter.
prevention:
The only way to catch Norovirus is if you ingest the contaminated fecal/vomit particles via mouth/nose [eyes have been ruled out by a microbiologist] it is not an airborne illness [unless you are standing next to a vomiting person and ingest the aersolized vomit particles]
In order to become infected, one must ingest the contaminated particles.The viral particles then travel down and latch on to the intestines [noting to do with the stomach], multiplying.It takes about 2-3 days before symptoms appear, in obviously a horrid way.Illness usually lasts about 7- 24 hours although it can last as long as 36-48 hours [usually in immune suppressed individuals]
The individual IS still contaminated and can shed the virus for up to three weeks.
This is where personal hygiene comes ino play.It is VERY important to keep your hands washed after being ill or going to the bathroom.15 - 17 second hand washes with warm soapy water will wash the viral germies away.Be sure to was hands before touching your face, especially your moth and food.Cross contamination is VERY easy since this virus is so contagious and takes fewer viral particles than bacterial particles to get sick.
Clean up should include BLEACH ONLY.Lysol and other cleaners will NOT kill this virus.Alcohol will also not kill it so hand sanitizers will do nothing.
It's a good idea to keep a bottle of bleach water around the office/workplace/home to sanitize surface areas and keep everyone healthy and happy.
Take the proper precautions and you will not get sick.good luck!
- cowboydocLv 71 decade ago
What makes you think she's a carrier. I work in a large lab and we have to run tests to see if a person is a carrier or susceptible to the flu. Your husband and son are probably passing this bug back and forth. Your son is a baby, then he's still using diapers ? when you change him you get an amount of Pee or poop on your hands ? right, do you wash real good to get all the bugs off? and then make a meal for the rest of you. This is how the bug within the family is passed back and forth in a family. You kiss your husband, or touch him, your passing the bug around. The blankets if he gets any spittle or body fluids on the blankets on them, he's passing it around.
- 1 decade ago
She could be a carrier. Usually, they don't have any symptoms. Is she on meds for the problem? If not, see a Dr. and he could give her anti biotics to stop the spread of whatever your
child has. Look @ this instance, it actually took place. In the early 1900's, there was this lady dubbed Typhoid Mary. She was the carrier of Typhus and was a housekeeper who actually
cooked meals for families. Even though she was the carrier of typhus, she was not ill and had no signs of the disease. When people she worked for started getting sick and dying, that
raised some eye brows. She was later tested to be the carrier of typhus and she was sent to a sanitarium and lived out her remaining years. You should read up on that
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The cure is just a little bit of holy water with a cross that auta do the trick:) hahaha!