About 4 days ago my whole family of 10 people, ALL of us had bad diarrhea and vomiting for 2 days. We managed to trace the cause, my nephew got it from the kindergarten and started vomiting and diarrhea. The virus infected us when his grandmother washed him after his purging and probably didnt get her hands totally clean when she resumed cooking. Lots of people are suffering from the same virus here in KB and its surprising to learn that its happening in PJ too. We might have a pandemic developing here.

Anyway how is ur son coping with the lactose free milk? is he fussy towards it?

I'm definitely getting my 4mth old son a good thermometer very soon. I've also been told to stock on some medicine which is to be inserted into an infant's anus during seizure but i cant recall the name and its purpose. Hope you wont mind sharing it.

@Abubin: When a child is having diarrhea, he is not supposed to consume his regular formula milk as it contains lactose which will worsen the diarrhea. An alternative is to feed him nothing else but lactose free milk which are usually based on soya.

For the adults, my best advice is to avoid food altogether for as long as they can. We managed 30 hrs after the 1st symptom.

By eating, this viral caused diarrhea will be prolonged. Can be as long as a week with intake of normal food. So again to speed up the recovery, avoid food altogether and preferably, 24 hrs n above. We wont die of hunger if without food for 2 days.

But most importantly, must take ORS regularly. Normally when an adult is feeling dehydrated, he or she is already badly dehydrated. Dehydration will lead to further problems slower recovery time.