Get around this by sprouting your own at home from dried beans. It's really insanely easy. The normal "sprouts" are from mug beans, but you can also do alfalfa, clover, broccoli and a few others. You...

Maybe start with cooked vegetables? For years I wouldn't eat salads because I was afraid they were contaminated. However, you can still eat vegetables.

Meat...I find red meat tends to be easier...

You don't KNOW she's going to get ill and v*.

This is just something kids do. The run around getting into every germy surface and stick their hands in their mouths. Does it result in illness?...

That...is a new one for me.

I've seen plenty of people who carry about spit bottles, but it's because they dip.

Not judgement, though. We all have weird superstitions that stem from emet.

Hey guys. Had my procedure today. I was given propofol, and, at my request, Zofran.

I had somewhat of a weird experience waking up from anesthesia. Basically it was a semi-awake bad dream. I...

I think we all do.

I recently heard that staffers from California brought it to the RNC and it made me anxious. Not because I'm any where near Cleveland or, even if I were, would go to the RNC...I...

I do drink, but so far have never v*ed from drinking or being hungover *knock on wood*.

From what I've heard v*ing from drinking tends to be because of excess stomach acid because alcohol...

That's pretty unlikely.

I've laughed to so hard I've cried, peed a little, fallen over, and had my abdominal muscles start to hurt, but I never felt like I was going to v*.

I wouldn't worry...

Vomiting from eye surgery? That's a new one to me. Not that I claim to know much about eye surgery. Either way that nurse...of all the damned stupid things to say!

Yeah their rules about rides are...

Ugh, great!

I'm having a colonscopy in a few weeks, so this freaks me out! They're also using propofol, but from what I understand that's better than versed and demerol for nausea risk.
I have a...

Not any specific instance that I know of. Maybe in the bathroom.

Not in a meeting, though, but that really doesn't help me. I start feeling an panic attack coming on, or my stomach hurts a little...

Oh, I was definitely worried about the girl at the wedding even with what her mother said. I just did acknowledge that, logically, she wasn't acting like she was sick.
Also it was 4 weeks ago, so...

Oh dear God, Walmart!

As you can probably tell I've made strides in overcoming the fear of being in public due to emet, but Walmart is my version of hell! I've encountered v* so much at Walmart....

Hmm, okay well I stand corrected.

The thing about worse hygiene now that in the past doesn't make sense to me at all unless, as you said, it's accidentally from things like hand sanitizer and they...

Jess,

Well I didn't exactly plan on it! I passed it on the path out to the parking lot as I was leaving. I was actually impressed that people were conscientious enough to leave the venue when they...

I get a little nervous at health places which is ironic since I work across the street from a hospital, and regularly cross the skywalk to go the restaurants in said hospital!

I don't get nervous...

Now a days?

LOL!

I'm nearly 30, and my dad called school "the germ factory" when I was in elementary back in the 90s! School was no more hygienic when we were kids...I don't even need to know...

Le sigh.

I can relate to how you feel, and to the fact that you're getting some feedback that is a bit judgemental or just accidentally patronizing. It happens, especially to women who don't want...

Razzle is right. It's been proven that kids who live in slightly dirtier homes, have pets, and are allowed to go play in the dirt, are healthier than kids who are raised in the closest their parents...