I've had this a couple of times in my life (thankfully, that's all). Much sympathy; I feel your pain.
Two medical tips:
1. You may have been throwing up anything you drank, but you need to keep on drinking -- the worst problem with this kind of bug (typically a 24 hour rota virus) is that it causes dehydration, leading to electrolyte imbalance, which can have really nasty consequences, starting with hang-over like headaches and shivering and getting worse. (It's how cholera -- which is basically similar in effect but much more severe -- kills. You die of dehydration.)
2. Buy a box of Dioralyte sachets and keep them in the bathroom cupboard. It's a sugar/salt mix that, dissolved in the right amount of water, is designed to replace the electrolyte loss caused by violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It's a life saver in extremis, and in minor cases (like yours, or the bug that bit me in Brussels last year) it'll make you feel much less bad the morning after. (It's also the standard third-world cure for Cholera these days: mix with boiled water, feed to patient in quantities of about one litre per hour, and the infection will flush itself out in a day.)
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Date: 2005-10-06 01:25 pm (UTC)Two medical tips:
1. You may have been throwing up anything you drank, but you need to keep on drinking -- the worst problem with this kind of bug (typically a 24 hour rota virus) is that it causes dehydration, leading to electrolyte imbalance, which can have really nasty consequences, starting with hang-over like headaches and shivering and getting worse. (It's how cholera -- which is basically similar in effect but much more severe -- kills. You die of dehydration.)
2. Buy a box of Dioralyte sachets and keep them in the bathroom cupboard. It's a sugar/salt mix that, dissolved in the right amount of water, is designed to replace the electrolyte loss caused by violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It's a life saver in extremis, and in minor cases (like yours, or the bug that bit me in Brussels last year) it'll make you feel much less bad the morning after. (It's also the standard third-world cure for Cholera these days: mix with boiled water, feed to patient in quantities of about one litre per hour, and the infection will flush itself out in a day.)