Hi everyone!

I'm new here and just found this place while endlessly googling ways to keep Rotavirus at bay. My DH and 15-year-old step daughter both woke up and began V at about 1:30 a.m. This continued until about 9 a.m. (DH only V twice, step daughter about 6 times). Initially I thought it was food poisoning since they both ate pepperoni pizza last night and none of the rest of the family did and we were fine, plus they got sick at almost exactly the same time. Unfortunately I contacted the people we ate dinner with and none of them are sick. So I am guessing it is not food poisoning after all. Then I find out that the little baby of the family we ate dinner with on Sunday and just had what the doctor diagnosed as Rotavirus (I don't think a stool sample was done, however, to verify that this is actually the strain). She is now 6 days out from it and still having diarrhea. So this leads me to believe this is what they have. They are both extremely nauseated and I spent the whole night listening to them V. I am exahusted and wearing myself out further trying to disinfect everything to keep myself and the baby (I have a 2-year-old) from getting it, too. I kissed my DH yesterday and we drank off the same cup, but then I did research and from what I can tell that shouldn't put me at risk. I am just freaking out because I SO don't want to get this virus. I used to be an emetophobe really, really bad when I was younger (really up until the last 2 years or so, since having a baby) but with this I feel all those old feelings coming back up. I'm afraid to eat or drink anything today for fear of getting sick. I don't know what the incubation period is for Rotavirus but I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles just waiting to see if I catch it. This is exhausting and horrible and I guess I just needed some support and understanding. No one understands why I get so freaked out about V.

Heather