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A person catches the stomach flu when they swallow the viruses that cause the stomach flu. The viruses come from other people's vomit and feces.

The stomach flu is really viral gastroenteritis. It is caused by a variety of different viruses and is unrelated to influenza (the real flu). The main symptoms are vomiting and/or diarrhea. When a person is sick with the stomach flu, the viruses that are causing their illness are present in their vomit and feces. Their vomit and feces contain millions of viruses. The illness is transmitted when a few of these viruses accidentally get into someone else's mouth.

Washing the viruses off your hands and body when you are sick is extremely important to avoid spreading the stomach flu. Particles of vomit can fly around the room when you are vomiting so cleaning sick room surfaces is also very important. The viruses can also live for weeks on surfaces so you must clean. Lysol disinfectant spray kills these viruses as does cleaning with a solution of 10% household bleach in water. Clorox wipes and Lysol wipes DO NOT kill these viruses.

A sick person is contagious (still producing viruses) for at least 3 days (often for 2 weeks) after their symptoms have stopped and they think they are well. Stay away from other people as much as possible while you are contagious. Keep young children home from day care or preschool for 3 days after they have recovered from a vomiting illness to avoid starting an outbreak at your school. If you work as a food service provider (cafeteria restaurant worker), do not return to work for 3 days to avoid starting an outbreak.

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12y ago
  1. If someone sneezes and doesn't catch it the germs may spread to you.
  2. I someone has sneezed and has touched something straight away and you then touch it those germs will go onto your hand a spread.
  3. Also if someone goes to work or school with a sickness its easy to catch because when I was in school some sort of sickness started spreading round year 4 and I caught it!

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You Can Ctach a Disease If You Do Not Wash Your Hands Regulary.You Can Also Catch It By Sneezing An Coughing And Not Covering You Mouth And Nose.

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Well....u may need to have tea and chicken soup

also rest have hot baths.

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You can catch it by having contact with by ingesting cough droplets from someone that has the flu already (or is one day away from showing the symptoms).

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You can catch the flu by hanging around other people who have the flu or if you make close contact with someone and touch you're eyes nose or face.

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