My two year old had rotavirus and ended up being admitted overnight on Mon., for dehydration. Now my stomach is cramping up from time to time like someone is punching me in the stomach. My bm's are more loose and frquent, soory, I know, TMI. The nurses had told me that it is highly contagious to the person handling the diaper changes, me, of course. I tried to steadily wash my hands to prevent myself from getting it and spreading it, but I kow this has to be what it is. What help is out there for adults with it? Has anyone else ever gotten it from their child? I feel like a failure, since this is a sickness that comes from not being clean enough, or atleast that is what I have been told, so I really embarrassed, therefore no mean or useless answers PLEASE!
2007-03-16 07:29:58 · 6 answers · asked by tryin4freedom 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
You are not a failure! This happens when you have children!! It is very likely that you do have it and do not blame yourself. My pediatrician told me that even the cleanest people can still get things...You can clean and miss a tiny spot and that may be what you catch it from. Don't worry about that!!
2007-03-16 07:53:28 · answer #1 · answered by BeThAnY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last year this had happened in my family. Don't be up set , the cleanest ppl in the world get this. What you need to do is disinfect your house. Lysol/ bleach everything. Clean all the babies toys a sterilize cups bottles pacifiers etc. you need to kill this germ. You getting it is not from you necessarily not washing your hands enough, it is from other things that the baby has touched or you have touched in your house. Even changing her diaper you may have accidentally got something on your hand and touched something else on your way to wash your hands. or even if she was vomiting it might of got somewhere you hadn't noticed it and it didn't get cleaned thoroughly enough. She can get this again, I'm sorry to say, so be careful. The only good thing is that after she has had it once if she gets it again it wont be as bad.
lots of luck
2007-03-16 15:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by dsmd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going through the same exact thing. My 2 year old daughter just got over it and now I have "D" and feeling like I am going to throw up. I took Pepto this morning and it helped ALOT! My immune system is very strong because I work around kids 40 hours a week, so I wont get that sick, I hope!
You can clean every 5 seconds and something get contaminated again so quickly. You cant stop everything. Don't get yourself to worked up about it, you are not a bad person.
2007-03-16 14:43:26 · answer #3 · answered by Mare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's not much you can do other than riding it out... try getting some anti-diarrheal medication and just try to keep hydrated.
Its SO hard to prevent getting these viruses, especially when changing diapers. One thing I tried that worked well was I bought a box of rubber gloves (like doctors wear) - and put them on any time I had to handle any body fluids from my child (changing diapers, cleaning up vomit) - that seemed to help somewhat. Good luck!!
2007-03-16 18:40:40 · answer #4 · answered by Mom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call your doctor and get seen. ginger ale and crackers too drink anything if you dont want to eat dont but keep the clear fluids going
2007-03-16 14:38:37 · answer #5 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter had it last year, thankfully i didnt get it. all you can really do is drink lots of fluids. there are no meds for it so you'll just have to tough it out! sorry :-(
2007-03-16 15:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by nikki l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋