I have a really bad stomach flu. Any ideas about what to do abou the throwing up?

[saravalintine 0]

Ive been throwing up for hours and have diarrhea. The vomiting is sooooooo painful-I hate this. My stomach is so sore I feel like ive done 2 million crunches. What can a lap banded patient take for nausea? IS pepto ok?

[JuneAct2 0]

Call your doctor. Ask about getting an un-fill so you don't damage your band/stomach.

Also, ask about something for nausea. Hope you are feeling better soon.

[luluc 6]

yes, call your dr and get a script for anti nausea meds.

[LSF 264]

Do you have any flat Coca Cola in your house? I always keep a bottle of it in my fridge for stomach bugs - now I will have to drink it flat with the band. That or Canada Dry Gingerale - they need to be regular - not diet.

[Carrie_C 9]

You're not supposed to take Pepto because it has aspirin in it. Take mylanta. Or if it is really bad, call the doctor and get a script for phenergan.

[Ruthi 60]

take emetrol, a tsp or so, its over the counter. It helped me alot

[saravalintine 0]

Thanks guys. Luckily, Im feeling much better. No more throwing up and Ive been able to eat so I hope its over.

[Jachut 487]

You should keep an anti nausea medication to hand, somehting that you will need a script for.

There's been a bug going round at school, a 12 hour one apparently. Last night eliza chundered in my car, all down the windows, in the electronic door mechanism, in every nook and cranny she could find. This morning we woke up to find puddles of spew right through the house, dripping off the bathroom sink, and she was curled up on the couch covered in diarrhoea - she's five, YUCK. Sigh.

I feel suspiciously blah. Of course the trouble with kids is that they've been all over you before you realise they're sick. So I've got this headache. I just popped an anti nausea pill this minute. I can tell I'm a bit unwell so I'll head off the gastric symptoms before they start by taking the pills six hourly today. That's how I handle stomach flu, which with 3 kids is a very common occurrence here and with me being the one who has to clean it up its VERY hard to avoid catching it.

I hope you feel better. If you have medication, you still get sick, you'll still feel crappy but it will probably be restricted to the actual fever, aches and diarrhoea and you'll skip the nausea and vomiting, which is better for your band.

[Hoosier Tom 0]

You need to do one of two things. Get somewhere and get the vomiting stopped and/or get the band unfilled ASAP. If you continue to heave and not get anything up you risk a couple of things. First, you risk the obvious possibility of displacement of the band, and second, you risk the possibility of a bowel obstruction, which can lead to septic shock, and if enough pressure is placed on the bowels, can lead to a perforated bowel.

Don't ask me how I know. I just went through this a little over a month and a half ago. Had a major intestinal virus hit me, started heaving, couldn't get anything up but thought I might be able to ride it out thinking it wouldn't last long. I wound up in the ER with a bowel obstruction, stomach and intestines triple the size they should've been, and on the operating room table at midnight facing emergency surgery.

The first thing the doc did as they wheeled me into the ER was stick a huber needle in my gut to drain the band, then down the hatch with a N-G tube to get the pressure off the upper side. I was in the hospital for a week after surgery to relieve the obstruction.

Long story short, it ain't worth it to heave with no hurling. Get some Phenergan or other powerful anti-hurling drug, keep it in stock, but also have you a fast escape route planned to get yourself to your doc fast in case you have to get that band drained.

Hope this helps, sorry for the TMI, but I lived it and I darn near died (per my doctor).

Edited November 22, 2008 by Hoosier Tom

[Carrie_C 9]

I agree, you really need to keep some phenergan on hand just in case. It lasts for a long time before it goes bad, so you can keep some in your medicine cabinet just in case.

[RestlessMonkey 7]

I NEVER vomit. But I asked my doc what happens just in case and he gave me a prescription for phenergan and told me to keep it on hand for "just in case". Apparently it's bad to vomit regardless of the reason. I concur with the "call your surgeon" people. Of course by now you've already done it! :smile2: