THIS is what bugs me

[tining]

Just irritated that teachers parade into my office announcing there is a "stomach bug" going around - makes me cringe. I want to send an informative email telling them that vomiting could be from any number of things and not just a "stomach bug". I just Dr. Googled causes for vomiting - here is the list that may prove my point:

Nausea and vomiting may occur separately or together. Common causes include:

• Chemotherapy
  
• Gastroparesis (a condition in which the muscles of the stomach wall don't function properly, interfering with digestion)
  
• General anesthesia
  
• Intestinal obstruction
  
• Motion sickness: First aid
  
• Morning sickness
  
• Migraine
  
• Rotavirus
  
• Viral gastroenteritis (stomach flu)
  
• Vestibular neuritis
  

Other possible causes of nausea and vomiting include:

• Alcohol use disorder
  
• Anaphylaxis (in children)
  
• Anorexia nervosa
  
• Appendicitis
  
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
  
• Brain Tumor (both cancerous and noncancerous)
  
• Bulimia nervosa
  
• Concussion
  
• Cholecystitis
  
• Cholecystitis (gallbladder inflammation)
  
• Cyclic vomiting syndrome
  
• Depression (major depressive disorder)
  
• Dizziness
  
• Diabetic ketoacidosis
  
• Ear infection (middle ear)
  
• Food poisoning
  
• Generalized anxiety disorder
  
• GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)
  
• Hiatal hernia
  
• Heart failure
  
• Gallstones
  
• Fever (in children)
  
• Hydrocephalus (a congenital brain abnormality)
  
• Hyperparathyroidism (overactive parathyroid)
  
• Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)
  
• Hypoparathyroidism (underactive parathyroid)
  
• Intestinal ischemia
  
• Enlarged spleen (splenomegaly)
  
• Intracranial hematoma
  
• Intussusception (in children)
  
• Duodenitis (inflammation of the initial portion of the small intestine)
  
• Liver cancer
  
• Liver failure
  
• Medications (including aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, oral contraceptives, digitalis, narcotics and antibiotics)
  
• Meniere's disease
  
• Meningitis
  
• Milk allergy (in infants and children)
  
• Pancreatic cancer
  
• Pancreatitis
  
• Peptic ulcer
  
• Pseudotumor cerebri
  
• Pyloric stenosis (in infants)
  
• Radiation therapy
  
• Severe pain
  
• Traumatic brain injury
  

[100kids, BSN, RN]

I just got the teacher who stopped me in the hallway to say "Oh I was out yesterday with a terrible 24 hour stomach thing so if any kids come to you feeling nauseous they probably have it so be careful..." Thanks for that gem. Now she's going to send me 20 kids today, I can feel it. And by the way if you were vomiting yesterday why are you in my school today???? Grrrrrrr

[kidzcare]

Oh, I just noticed the little check mark next to my name turned to silver!! Hurrah me!! Do I win any prizes? chocolates? wine? No? Nothing?

Woo!!

[Supernrse01, BSN]

- Currently in Math class

-I got detention

[chacha82, ADN, BSN]

Teachers waltzing in and proclaiming "a stomach bug is going around" = water is wet. Germs go around...it's what they do (like the Geico commercial). I would just sit and blink at them. I doubt you go into their classrooms and tell them something they definitely already know: "Some students struggle in school." Really?!? Sorry, I'm crabby today.

[tining, BSN, RN]

Teachers waltzing in and proclaiming "a stomach bug is going around" = water is wet. Germs go around...it's what they do (like the Geico commercial). I would just sit and blink at them. I doubt you go into their classrooms and tell them something they definitely already know: "Some students struggle in school." Really?!? Sorry, I'm crabby today.

Dear God - me too. Blinking is my go to .

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Yes, I got the "well I don't want to get sick on my vacation" lecture today. Again. Like it's my fault the kid has a cough but his lungs are fine, no fever, no sore throat, and Mom had already given him cough medicine. So I told them that working in an elementary school is a cesspool of germs 'cause there's over 900 kids here blah blah blah story". Again. What the heck were you thinking when you decided to be a teacher? That you'd been teaching classes in a clean room, surrounded by children in hazmat suits? If you're so worried about germs, tell your classes to wash their hands, cough into their elbows and get on with teaching. Don't you go to the grocery store/mall/church/or anywhere in public?

(thank you, I feel better now. Stepping off my soapbox, for now...)

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

Everyone knows that bacteria, viruses and lice only populate schools.

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

Everyone knows that bacteria, viruses and lice only populate schools.

Yep. No one that works another job ever gets sick. They totally always wash their hands and clean their work spaces and stay home for every single sniffle. Totally...

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Everyone knows that bacteria, viruses and lice only populate schools.

Yeah, viruses and bacteria aren't on the shopping cart handle you just grabbed and didn't clean off before tooling around the grocery store. You didn't see that baby gnawing on the handle and drooling or the guy pick his nose and grab the handle of the woman sneeze all over the handle. . .

(Lice don't jump).

[NanaPoo]

Y'all are cracking me up.

But if I had a dollar for every kid that told me, "I just threw up in my mouth," I could retire a wealthy woman right now.

[SchoolNurseTXstyle]

I always like to point out that I am exposed to sick kids all day long and rarely get sick. It is called "wash your hands people, wash them good and wash them often."

Obviously, that is too highly technical of medical info for them to understand.....

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

Y'all are cracking me up.

But if I had a dollar for every kid that told me, "I just threw up in my mouth," I could retire a wealthy woman right now.

Ugh. I have said "Cool. Let me know when the puke is visible and we'll talk" to kid who has told me this.