What do you use for a sick pot?

[singlewiththree]

I used to use the inner potty on a chair potty but I've give that away and I'm now stuck what I am going to use, I have a normal potty, do you just use a pot specific for sick :rolleyes:

sorry

[Winnie]

The telephone - quick please collect your child :panic: :laughing: I have an old mixing bowl that has been our sick bowl for 30 years...its only used for that purpose :laughing:

[jaja]

mop bucket then i get a new one, need two buckets now though as both kids ill..... xx

[Mouse]

We have an old Tupperware mixing bowl that lives on the top of a cupboard until needed!

[georgie456]

The telephone - quick please collect your child :panic: :laughing: I have an old mixing bowl that has been our sick bowl for 30 years...its only used for that purpose :laughing:

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Took the words out of my mouth!

[hayleychildcare]

i have a orange bucket that i got from b & Q for 99p. Its kept in the understair cupboard and used only for sick:thumbsup:

Not to be confused with the black bucket that is used to clean the fish tank :eek:

[Cammie Doodle]

Always have used an empty ice cream tub, with a small amount of dettol in the bottom (not good with vomit smells, so the dettol helps me be a better nurse :blush: ) We started this years ago whilst travellling with my son and nephews up and down to Scotland. The lid comes in handy too if/ when its been used to keep smells and mess to a minimum

[LOOPYLISA]

Floor :laughing:

[PixiePetal]

Always have used an empty ice cream tub, with a small amount of dettol in the bottom (not good with vomit smells, so the dettol helps me be a better nurse :blush: ) We started this years ago whilst travellling with my son and nephews up and down to Scotland. The lid comes in handy too if/ when its been used to keep smells and mess to a minimum

I have an extra potty but like the ice cream tub idea. Disposable too :thumbsup:

[Probey9]

Oh god my worst nightmare, luckily haven't had to think about it. So far the kids have been sick at home and I have thanked them on their return. I have an old bowl that I use for my own children. I agree with the others who said the telephone though! :panic:

[caz3007]

As my DS is often travel sick, we use the ice cream tub....we have several in the car. I collected a mindie from school a while back, he is 9 but he looked rather green, so rang mum and kept him apart from the other mindies. He went home clasping my Ds's plastic waste paper bin and his mum bought it back nice bleached :)

[sandy64]

i have a potty for sicky days yuk:panic:

[mama2three]

i use nappy sacks in the car - the smell is masked a bit too. not had a mindee being sick yet thank goodness!although when i was at playgroup a little one had been quiet all morning and came over and sat on my knee for a cuddle , then was sick all in my hair.:panic: lovely topic for tea time by the way!:rolleyes:

[mamasheshe]

we use a potty or an old small washing up bowl that's kept under the sink

[SparklingGems]

We have a pale green bucket we use for our family. I had not thought about mindees maybe an old ice cream tub then ring to get em sent home asap.

[little chickee]

i have a orange bucket that i got from b & Q for 99p.

Ditto!! They are very handy.

[margimum]

If given enough warning(!!) we use an old washing up bowl with dettol and a drop of water in but without warning it's been towel, cushion and often , hands(!!:eek: ) and my lap!!

[Twinkles]

Always have used an empty ice cream tub, with a small amount of dettol in the bottom (not good with vomit smells, so the dettol helps me be a better nurse :blush: ) We started this years ago whilst travellling with my son and nephews up and down to Scotland. The lid comes in handy too if/ when its been used to keep smells and mess to a minimum

Oh I do the exact same thing too !!

I always collect empty ice cream containers for messy jobs. :thumbsup:

[fionamal]

I use carrier bags or nappy sacks. Keep a few in the car aswell as son isnt a very good traveller.

Luckily ive only had 1 mindee throw up whilst in my care and he was just a baby at the time

[maryp0ppins]

:panic: the last time was my new shoe box near the door, as one 3 yr old mindee was sick just as we were leaving for school run.
Luckily only her spare shoes were in there.

But i just keep an old bucket under the stair cupboard with a sticker on it saying "BARF BUCKET" only......older mindees & my 2 DD's wording :rolleyes:

[Spangles]

If given enough warning(!!) we use an old washing up bowl with dettol and a drop of water in but without warning it's been towel, cushion and often , hands(!!:eek: ) and my lap!!

AAAAAAAAGH! That's made me feel really ill! Be a while before I can have my dinner now!

[margimum]

Sorry!!! It is just an automatic reflex to put hands out!! I'm usually retching myself at this point!!:eek:

[sweets]

ive done the hand thing before! just a automatic reaction. ive had it in my lap too, problem with that is then you cant move as it spills on the floor!
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

[margimum]

Thats one downside to wearing trousers!!
If we were like old style nannies we could catch it all in our frilly pinnies!!
:laughing: :laughing:

[Daisy1956]

On a first-aid course we were told about some crystals you could put on vomit or in the bottom of a bucket to absorb the fluid and smell it turned into a gel that was easier to clean up but I can't remember what it was called. Anyone know or where I can get it?

[WibbleWobble]

Thats one downside to wearing trousers!!
If we were like old style nannies we could catch it all in our frilly pinnies!!
:laughing: :laughing:


dont laugh....when i was a student nurse we wore the old fashioned dress uniform (in white...lovely view of your knickers if they were not white) and once this old lad upchucked over me and i managed to catch it in my dress...not a drop on the floor. Sister was pleased!

oh...we have "the bucket" .....its green and lives next to the washing machine in the utility.

[Gizmo]

I keep a roll of dustbin liners in the car have been caught out before, in the house I have an old basin for my own kids , have only had it once so far with a mindee and I managed to pick her up and ran to the toilet and we made it :rolleyes: then I used the telephone :clapping:

[FussyElmo]

Floor :laughing:

Me too then hand them the mop while I go and be sick. Can deal with blood but sick a no no :panic:

[nannymcflea]

I used to use the inner potty on a chair potty but I've give that away and I'm now stuck what I am going to use, I have a normal potty, do you just use a pot specific for sick :rolleyes:

sorry


a bucket with a carrier bag in, easy to change and clean!

PS...what a subject.:eek:

[Ripeberry]

I use an old bucket, but I've seen the school's barf bucket and it is a cracker tin with a plastic bag inside. See it three times now, what with my girls being sent home it seems every week :(

[skytvaddict]

Our old top and tail bowl. It is only used for that now and has been used quite a bit this week! My littlest one only (so far!). He also used the floor at the todder group and the floor in lounge!

[Pipsqueak]

I used to use the inner potty on a chair potty but I've give that away and I'm now stuck what I am going to use, I have a normal potty, do you just use a pot specific for sick :rolleyes:

sorry

anything to hand that doesn't have holes in and preferably not a wicker bin basket, nor a mug lol

we have a washing up bowl that is specific for the job if it can be caught in time. (the washing up bowl is separate to anything else and is one of the most important pieces of equipment in my arsenal of germ warfare - along with disinfectant).



(the wicker bin basket comes from when a friend stayed round my house when we were teens - she was sick first into a mug - quickly realising this doesn't hold much then proceeded to puke into the wicker bin basket - which leaked - gross):eek:

[LOOPYLISA]

Me too then hand them the mop while I go and be sick. Can deal with blood but sick a no no :panic:

blood no prob, sick - hubs job :thumbsup:

[sonia ann]

....a 29yr old red washing up bowl:)that I bought when we moved into our first home...................... ......now also used to soak my 92yr old mothers feet in.....:panic: :panic: :blush:

[LOOPYLISA]

....a 29yr old red washing up bowl:)that I bought when we moved into our first home...................... ......now also used to soak my 92yr old mothers feet in.....:panic: :panic: :blush:

:laughing: :laughing:

[Dragonfly]

Cant believe we are on this subject:eek: its soo gross!!!!!!!!

[LOOPYLISA]

Puke is the worst thing ever :panic:

In fact i think i have a phobia about sick, yuk yuk yuk :laughing:

[sweets]

what shall we talk about next? :laughing:





pooh? :laughing:

[margimum]

Can you imagine being on mastermind?


And your specialist subject is?..............vomitus from milky burps to projectile.........!!:eek:

[Twinkles]

Can you imagine being on mastermind?


And your specialist subject is?..............vomitus from milky burps to projectile.........!!:eek:

Oh I've always said my specialist subject would be poo.

I have very in depth conversations on the state of babies soiled nappies; is he teething,had too much sweetcorn :rolleyes: ,had enough water , need more apple juice !.........

[Pipsqueak]

my subject would be injuries and body parts i think - blood and gore (including broken bones)!

poo sticks eh Twinks lol

[ORKSIE]

My specialist subjects would be....amputations(DH)

OMG I fainted in the A+E:blush: :blush:

I can cope with Poo and Sick.....
Blood!!!! :eek:

[sweets]

i can deal with poo and sick it wobbly teeth that freak me out:panic: :panic:

[sonia ann]

poo, sick, blood, sputum, pus......I can deal with it all and not turn a hair.....but have to really steel myself to wash my mums feet.....old peoples feet are :panic: :eek: :panic: :eek: :panic:......could never have been a chiropodist!!!

[WibbleWobble]

poo sick wee blood false eyes etc fine with me...

but not sputum...omg i heave. And i used to work on a respiratory ward!

Also dont like bones...alright cutting and drilling them...its the manipulation (to set them) that makes me heave.

have i made you all feel good now...?:laughing:

[Twinkles]

Blergh !!!

Can we now have a thread about ' Fragrent flowers' or 'clean laundry' or even ' cute and fluffy kittens' pleeeeeeeeeease ??

[sonia ann]

....just for Twinkles....xxxx

[Twinkles]

Thank you Sonia :thumbsup: cute , fluffy and even smiley kittens :D

[babs]

plastic bucket brought for just this purpose (never had to use yet) son had old plastic mixing bowl in his bedroom for years ( cleaned after use of course ) as he couldnt eat chocolate when he had a cold would just bring it all back. got rid of it about 6 months back but wish i hadnt he turned 18 at the weekend and i was busy hunting for something just in case he was ill ( didnt want to use my nice clean bucket:laughing: :laughing: ..) anyway he was ok stayed at mates :D

[twiggy]

I use a big black bowl bought from Asda orginally for putting sweets in for halloween. It's nice and deep to contain any splashing!