Can you get the stomach flu twice in one week?

Answer 1

I don't think so. Your antibodies from the first round should sustain you from it. However it could be that you were never totally over the sickness and something triggered it to come back. For example, you are not supposed to eat/drink dairy for a few days after having the bug.

Flu is caused by a virus. It is possible to get two strains of the flu in the same week. Note that you will seldom, if ever, get the 'same' flu twice, particularly that close to each other. Every cold that you get is a different strain, one of the reasons older folks don't get colds as often, they've already had the common ones!

It should also be noted that often stomach flu is actually a mis-diagnosis of food poisoning.

Also , you could feel great one day then the next terrible then good then bad the flu changes your body like that.

Answer 2

If the stomach symptoms are caused by a virus, conventional wisdom is that you cannot catch the same virus twice because the first time around your body builds up an immunity. Which is true, but you can get the same symptoms again from another similar virus or if the one you got before has mutated enough to a new strain that your body doesn't recognize it as the same.

If you have a stomach bug in January and get it 'again' in March...it's a different strain. If you have it on Thursday and get it again several days later--you probably did not get rid of it entirely and it is just more symptoms of the same infection.

Although the "stomach flu" is a common term, it is not a real diagnosis. The proper medical term for stomach flu is gastroenteritis (an intestinal disease or infection, sometimes viral but it can also be a bacterial infection). It is often mistaken for influenza because the real influenza viral infection can sometimes include vomiting and diarrhea as symptoms.

The symptoms like those of "stomach flu" can also be caused by other things, such as a food-borne illness, like infection from bacteria (common ones are E. coli or Salmonella) from contaminated food sources; intestinal disorders like inflammatory bowel disease; and psychosomatic (emotional) disorders. These can cause symptoms more than once.

Answer 3

Yes, you can.

The stomach flu is not like a cold, where you just get it once and can never get it again. Gastroenteritis (fancy name for stomach flu) is a virus that makes you very nauseaed and sick to your stomach, therefore vomiting can happen.

The symptoms of the stomach flu are... (Main ones will have a "*" on them)

Nausea and (sometimes) vomiting

Diarrhea*

Loss of appetite

Fever*

Headache

Burning, pain, and cramps in the stomach*

Fainting and Weakness*

Altho if you have been throwing up or having diarrhea, but no fever, you may have

food poisoning. Just mainly watch out for a fever.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

It is always possible to recover from illness and then get worse again; this is technically known as having a relapse.