24 hour flu.

[RRK]

Anybody else get this flu thats going around. Seems like now that the Swine flu has passed the seasonal flu is making its rounds.

Nausea/diarrhea come on quick followed by 24 hours of mild fever. Aches and pains linger a bit. I had mine yesterday and now my wife is down. Hoping my 4 year old doesn't have to learn what puking is since he has made it after he was a baby until now.

[Karanya]

If it's gone in 24 hours, it's not the flu. Most cases of the "24 hour flu" are actually food poisoning, but barring that, could be a mild communicable gastroenteritis.

Pedantry aside, I had a brief bout of the runs recently too. No one else got it, though, and I'm pretty sure mine was a side effect of the antibiotics I've been taking since The Eye developed a nasty discharge.

--K

[RRK]

I did a quick search since the person that told us it was going around is a nurse and the search said that while it is not influenza the common name for gastroenteritis is stomach flu or the 24 hour flu and is most often viral. But I guess that maybe rules out the seasonal flu.

[lxskllr]

Feeling better RRK? I'm doing pretty well so far this year. Unemployment has the fortuitous side effect of reducing ones exposure to disease factories :^D

[RRK]

Feeling better RRK? I'm doing pretty well so far this year. Unemployment has the fortuitous side effect of reducing ones exposure to disease factories :^D

Yeh, I'm fine now. Thanks for asking.

Currently babying my sick wife.

[lxskllr]

Currently babying my sick wife.

Hope they feel better soon. Better now than at Xmas, eh?

[RRK]

Hope they feel better soon. Better now than at Xmas, eh?

Oh, definitely. Kinda ruined our already delayed decorating weekend. But its rainy here anyway.

[Roo]

I got Gastroenteritis twice in one year, more recently over Labor Day weekend. If it came on immediately and without warning, and you shat and puked your brains out for about 6-8 hours then felt horrible for about 24 hours, that's it. I posted about it in gory detail in the box pass 2.0 thread because it delayed my passing of the box for several days. A few months later and I still have a stupid scar across my nose from getting so dehydrated and dry-heaving so hard on the toilet, that I passed the F out nose first onto my bathtub. I really should've got stitches for that one, because for the rest of my life, everytime I look in the mirror, I think of gastroenteritis. Lol what a bummer. Feel better man, and try not to think about how the virus gets passed along if you don't already know! The thought of it will induce more vomiting

[Karanya]

A few years back, my husband got a bad case of gastroenteritis... he was vomiting so hard he blew out a blood vessel on the surface of his eyeball and it looked like someone poured blood all over his eye.

Then came the drizzling (or rather, squirting) shits...

Curiously, I was spared, but I had a similar bug when I was younger so perhaps I was resistant to it.

--K