Stomach Virus going around

Hello. I live in Central PA. and wanted to give everyone a heads up about a highly contagious stomach bug. This can be dangerous for us with heart disease because of dehydration and not being able to take medications. Never have I had a bug come on so quick and such symptoms. The worst was this odd smell I could not shake. I thought I was going insane until I saw others saying the same thing. I now saw that to prevent this or keep it from getting to bad a vaporizer with vaposteam should help. If you do get this; my Dr had me sipping about a table spoon of water every 20 minutes and allow my stomach to completely empty. Do this and the next day try the BRAT diet and if vomitting or diarrhea starts again keep going back to the water until it stops. If you get to bad a visit to the ER may be necessary.

Stay healthy everyone and use lots of soap and water and sanitizer on hands and spray house and bedding with lysol often.

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Thanks for the heads up. Can't afford any bugs.

Pchyk

Appreciate the heads up! Have two kids so I have even been told to keep a good white mask around (from automotive dept) if its rampant! Ugh....

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