Students vomiting all over South and West Quad. Amazingly, alcohol not involved

I remember getting the "Markley Plague" in February/March 2004 (and I didn't even live in Markley!).  It was absolutely 100% miserable for a week or so, and I remember having to get UHS to write me a letter allowing me to make up all of my midterms I was missing.  One of my professors rewrote the midterm questions specifically for me and I'm convinced made them 50% harder out of annoyance for having to make a special accommodation.

I wouldn't wish that illness on my worst enemies.

That's how I can get to 220...nah, I'll do it the old fashioned way.

Been battling this shit since Tuesday morning. Not fun.

"I don't take vacations.  I don't get sick.  I don't observe major holidays.  I'm a jackhammer." - Harbaugh

Let's hope the Harbaughs stick around Ann Arbor long-term, if for no other reason than so that their genes can supplant those of the mere mortals currently inhabiting the area.

Also a fellow norovirus survivor. I was deployed a couple years ago, shit ramped up (literally), base got flooded with newer, and apparently grosser troops. Norovirus became an epidemic. It was apparently from the gym. Nasty dudes working out in uniform then going straight to chow.

I picked up Norovirus in Aruba a few years ago - apparently, there was an outbreak on a cruise ship that stopped in Aruba at the same time that I was there.  It was horrible.  I spent three days trying to sleep on the bathroom floor, since I couldn't drag myself back to bed (and, since I was never out of the bathroom for more than 30 minutes).  It was the sickest I have ever felt.  My family and I nicknamed it the "Aruba death bug."  I lost 10 pounds in three days. 

I guess that's one way to lose weight for Spring Break.

http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/way-ot-norovirus EDIT: I posted this mainly because several MGoPhysicians had excellent advice in that thread should anyone contract the virus. That advice - also the bathroom humor - is worth reading.

Quit Puking and go to bed

Sincerely,  David Brandon

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Its going all around Ann Arbor. I had last weekend and then promptly got my wife sick. I have a few friends that also had it in the past week. 

Most of that lost weight is water.  This is literally how stomach bugs can kill you.

The first time I got norovirus I tried to "tough it out".  I eventually passed out in shock after puking bile and blood and wound up in an ambulance.

The second time I tried to "tough it out".  I couldn't hold down water.  Eventually my wife took me to ER and as soon as they measured my BP I was waved through triage.  I was acutely dehydrated; my vitals were dropping (low BP, elevated heartrate) and my pee was brown.  They had me on an IV all night and didn't release me until the next morning.

The third time I didn't quite tough it out but I still waited too long.  ER put two liters of saline into me and my BP still hadn't recovered.  Despite pushing fluids I'd lost about 3 liters in ten hours.  That's a "keep it up and you will die" pace of dehydration.

There's a line between "toughing it out" and "dying", and that line is called "stupid".  I'm stupid enough for all of us; don't try to tough out norovirus.  It won't kill you in an hour or a day, but if you can't rehydrate you CAN die, and it's 100% preventable.  Even if you don't die, severe dehydration can cause organ damage.  Not to mention norovirus is extremely contagious so if you show up at ER puking, they generally know the deal because odds are you're not the first.

Wash your damn hands, kids!

Luckily I lived in a small house with a small bathroom.  
There's just nothing like shitting 10% of your body weight, then just leaning forward (while still "dripping") and projectile vomiting another 5% out of your mouth.

crawl into the shower, then onto the floor to sleep
rinse & repeat.

over & over for 2-3 days.

My wife just kept opening the door and delivering gatorade, blankets & TP.

It's just impossible to replace fluid fast enough, usually leaves you weak for many days after.

 

My son and my husband had it a few years back and both went to the emergency room. Just the worst. 

In '03 or maybe '04 when I was in school there was something called the "Markley flu" that was going around for a couple weeks which sounds exactly like this. 

Those afflicted were struck down with the same symptoms and the halls of UHS filled with the shambling wrecks of what previously had been students.    

Seriously though I recall it being the most awful thing ever.  My sincere sympathy to those who are ill

How can the afflicted spread it to Columbus, OH?

West quad (Cambridge) my old stomping grounds! Glad I'm not there now!

I have a sister there who won't go into west quad because she's so nervous of getting it again

So when I told my dad that my old dorm has norovirus, he said, "then the frat house must have the bubonic plague". Everyone's a comedian.

worst 72 hours of my life.  slept on the bathroom floor delirious.  couldn't even keep powerade down.  was so sick my dog didn't even bother me to go outside for most of the time i was down.  

I got this once, or something similar, ten or so years ago.  I was driving home to LA from Vegas on new years day when we decided to stop at the state line to get some food and a hotel room as the traffic just was not moving.  A few hours later the traffic is mostly gone so we go back on the road and thats when my tainted McDonald's hit me...in traffic, driving home with Vegas.  Luckily the diarhea didn't start until I got home but we had to pull over for vomit breaks frequently and as a bonus, due to the dry Vegas weather, I had a nose bleed at the same time.  I ended up staying in bed for a week after that, those poor damn kids.

in 1989 I got food poisoning in the SQuad cafeteria,the meatless mousaka. Later felt something moving in my stomach. had to go to hospital to get stomach pumped and they gave me a suppository that made me shit my pants without realizing it, and gave me these tiny pin size pills for nausea.

I feel bad about my very flip early post and want to know from someone on campus if the situation has an update....I experienced it once a few years back in Peru visiting Machu Picchu and I will never forget the excruciating collapse it caused me over 3 days...any serious info available to those of us off campus? Thx.