Come prepared

[rie'smom]

I read a thread a couple of weeks ago about a stomach bug around the WDW area. Well, I'm here to say come prepared.We arrived on Sunday and I felt fine until Tuesday night. I started feeling sick about 2 in the morning on Wednesday and here it is Thursday evening and I'm starting to feel a bit human. This thing is a definite fun killer. Bring Immodium,emetrol whatever,your family uses to fight this kind of thing. All I can say is Thank God, we invited my DD's nanny and her son because Nanny Nat has been a life saver. She' s been able to take my 12 YO daughter,my DD's friend, and little boy to the parks for the last 2 days. Tomorrow is our last day and I'm hoping to get out of the room. We really want to see the Christmas happenings at Epcot tomorrow night.

 

[raterfly]

Sorry to hear you were not well but glad to hear you are feeling better. As you say it was a God send that you took the Nanny. at least the kids didn't miss out. But poor you - being ill on holiday is so not nice!

 

[disneygal33]

Sorry you got this bug, no fun!! Thanks for the heads up. I always makes sure to have Pepito, Imodium, kid/adult Motrin and Benadryl. I always have little of each with me at all times. Better to be prepared and not have to use it then have to drive off property while feeling icky!
I hope you feel better for your last day and get some extra pixie dust!!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

So sorry you got sick! That's one of my biggest fears about our upcoming trip - that someone will get sick and have to miss some of the fun!

Hope you are feeling all better and can enjoy the last bit of your vacation!

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

hope u feel better and enjoy your last day!

i was just sick this week, monday night and i am today eating again, was feeling normal yesterday....i am hoping that means i am 'covered' and won't get it when i am away!

 

[mickeysgirl17]

It's one of my fears too. Every time we travel, either I or my DD3 gets sick due to the climate change. It really scares me to think we could miss out on some of the stuff.

 

[neonurse]

I feel your pain. It's funny we have been to WDW only twice and both times we were all sick. Once with a stomach bug and once with the flu and my youngest DS had a stomach bug. I wonder if it is all the cooties being recycled on the airplane. I am planning a trip for next november and am almost tempted to make everyone where a mask on the plane. Luckily both times we were there more than a week so it didn't completely ruin our trip.

 

[CleveRocks]

Getting sick a few days after leaving for vacation ANYWHERE is very common, so common that doctors have a nickname for it, usually travelers' illness. Some of it has to do with the fatigue and stress associated with travel -- you know, the more fatigued and stressed you are, the more susceptible you are to getting sick.

But most of it is due to exposure to "foreign" germs. Foreign to you. Every community has its own breeds of bacteria and viruses, maybe only slightly different to germs in other parts of the country, but different enough so that people who live there have developed an immunity to them while people who are rarely exposed to them get sick more easily than they do at home.

You know the old saw about "Don't drink the water in Mexico," right? [I'm talking the nation, not the attraction in World Showcase!] Well, the people living in Mexico aren't sick all the time, because they have developed an immunity to whatever water-borne "bug" causes "Montezuma's Revenge."

So if you don't live in Central Florida, your immune system doesn't recognize the cold viruses and stomach bugs that live in Central Florida, and if your immune system doesn't know how to fight it, you get sick. But at home, it's likely that your immune system successfully fights off many of the cold and stomach bugs that live in your area, and you don't even know it.

Add into all of this the fact that the Orlando area is a HUGE vacation destination, so we as travelers not only have to deal with the native Central Florida germs, but also all the germs brought there from all over the country and other parts of the world by our fellow travelers.

It's MUCH easier to get sick after exposure to new "bugs," after exposure to germs that your immune system doesn't recognize and doesn't know how to fight.

My wife is a pediatrician. She spent her entire life, through medical school, in the city of Philadelphia. Being exposed to sick kids during medical school didn't increase her getting sick because she'd spent her whole life being exposed to Philadelphia's "bugs." And then we moved to the Cleveland area for her residency, 500 miles away. She picked up her first "bug" about a week or so after we moved, and I followed close behind. During our first year there, these two healthy people in their late 20's who almost never got sick were sick an awful lot. After our first full year in Cleveland, after we were exposed to all of the seasonal bugs, we went back to being our normal healthy selves, as our immune systems learned how to recognize and fight the bugs there. Then we moved to Atlantic City and went through that lovely cycle all over again ....

 

[I'mNoPrince]

Eric that is one great expanation.

You hit it right onthe hea with that one.

 

[STEAMBOAT209]

Eric, thanks for that informative explanation, I never thought of the bug cycle as you mention. We normally bring along the regular meds with us just in case they are needed.
thanks again for the info...

 

[twinz]

We leave for WDW in a week and I am popping Vitamin C tablets EVERYDAY! I am also going to get my flu shot today. I am also bringing antibacterical hand cleanser, and will be using it quite a bit (esp on the airplane!), hopefully this will help.

 

[Rubbertops]

I am popping Vitamin C tablets EVERYDAY!

Does that help??

 

[cleo]

Bummer.

We were there when the first post was posted and none of us got sick, thankfully. Two in our party (one from England, one from Australia) got a cold, but other than that everyone was fine, so it isn't a GIVEN you'll get sick. I used to worry when I read these threads, thinking it was nearly a done-deal, since so many people were getting sick, but happily, in years and years of going, we've stayed healthy each time.

 

[trypnotic]

DW got a stomach bug on the second to last day of our last WDW trip in June. Fortunately it was at the end of the day and was somewhat better by the next morning. She insisted on continuing with our plans and we headed to Epcot the next morning! We just took it slow and took our time - something our commando touring usually doesn't entail but still, what a trooper!

 

[Blondie]

I'm sorry you've gotten sick! Has anyone else in your party come down with it yet? If not, I wonder if it's something you picked up along the way. Something you came in contact with that nobody else did. A bathroom handle you touched, a door you pushed open, etc.

With all the people at WDW on any given day it's amazing we don't catch more things than we do!

A cold/virus is one thing, but a stomach bug has to be about the worse thing we can have on vacation or while traveling!

I'm a walking pharmacy when I go on vacation, in fact, I probably bring too much! But I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it! Imodium, Tums, Mylicon, Pepcid, Benadryl, Tylenol, unused filled RX for Zithromax, muscle relaxers, you name it, I probably have it! The problem with stomach viruses is that there is nothing you can take, it has to run it's course.

Hoping you're on the mend by now and you can salvage some of your time in WDW!

 

[SaraMc]

DH had a confrence at WDW a couple of weeks ago ( yes I was super jelous and no he didnt take me) He came home and about 2 days later complained about how sick he was feeling and then was sick for 4 days. I told him it was the Disney Gods revenge for not bringing us along. Ive got a bottle of unopened pedalite because of course DS did get sick too, that I just might bring along just incase.