DisneyOma
DIS Veteran
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- Jul 27, 2015
Not sure where the right place to put this is so forgive me if this is in the wrong section...my family and I just got home from a WDW trip that started off great and ended less than magical. It was myself, my husband and our 6 year old son. We stayed at POR. Our son came down with a nasty stomach bug on the last day of our trip. We had four great days in the parks and on the 5th day which was supposed to be our last he woke up with a 103 fever...checked out a day early and started driving home and he started throwing up and threw up the whole way home. It was a LONG 6.5 hour ride home. This is our son's fourth trip to WDW and nothing like this has ever happened. I'm super diligent about washing hands/not touching his face or door knobs or handrails etc. But this still managed to happen. I have a phobia of throwing up so this was particularly horrible to me.
I have since been online looking up Disney stomach bugs...I had no idea how common of a thing this was! Apparently this happens all the time at WDW and Disney is like a stomach bug Petri dishTo be completely honest it was so awful and has left such a bad taste in my mouth I'm not super excited about planning another trip for a long time. I understand that you can catch a stomach bug anywhere but with that many kids in one place and everyone's touching everything on rides and in restaurants and bathrooms...ugh it's no wonder stomach bugs run rampant there! Sorry if this is freaking anyone out that's about to travel. Just make sure you wash your hands well with soap and water and try your hardest to keep your kids hands out of their mouths. Wash your hands after touching menus and after visiting the buffet. Getting sick on vacation blowsReally hoping I'll get over my fear of this happening again so we can plan another trip sometime down the road.
Phobias are the worst - seems like just as soon as you get a handle on them, they wiggle free. What does your therapist suggest? If you don't have one, maybe one would help? If you want some tips, I can pass on what I've learned from my therapist!
This gives me hope! I hate stomach bugs so much! Can't wait for him to grow out of getting sick so often
He gets sick often? Do you use a lot of hand sanitizer, etc? Sometimes that wipes out the good bacteria that fights off the bad, and kids get sick more often that way. I have a few germophobe friends, and their kids actually get sick more often than the rest of the pack. Although getting sick a lot as a kid actually helps build up a healthy immune system