• fiercekitten@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Wait the flu doesn’t typically cause nausea?!

    …that was food poisoning I got as a kid, wasn’t it.

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      5 months ago

      Dude idk this is the one thing that makes me scratch my head.

      Kids seem to throw up often when they are sick. When the adults catch it from their kids, they very rarely have any GI issues but especially not nausea/vomiting. This is absolutely anecdotal evidence, but I anticipate a lot of parents and childcare workers will find rings true enough.

      Or maybe it’s my really shitty family genetics and we are all more likely to puke lol

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        5 months ago

        Pretty sure there are strains that can cause nausea. I had one back around 2011 or so that nearly killed me after a week of puking non-stop. I reached a point of just sipping broth, not sleeping for like 36 hours towards the tail end. It’s what made me realize the times I thought I’d had it before were probably just food poisoning

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        5 months ago

        Kids seem to throw up often when they are sick.

        The explanation I heard was that kids bodies are still learning how to pilot and maintain their meat ships so their stomachs will sometimes get upset and purge when they don’t need to/shouldn’t

        Source: foggy memory of I think it was a SciShow video like 5-10 years ago?

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        This is why I said “typically does not” instead of never. Some people’s immune systems will go ape shit and get every possible symptom under the sun, and children’s immune systems/reactions can be more stressed till they build some strength and have more exposures through life so their bodies learn how to handle them.

        But if someone has a bad day that they’re throwing up/have diarrhea (no stuffy nose, congestion, or other respiratory symptoms) then chances are they consumed something their body is trying to reject.