Blanket

[tj_rowe]

Turns out that if you leave a blanket with sick on it in a carrier bag for nearly a week, you don't just have to get rid of the sick, you have to get rid of the mould which has grown on the sick. Yuuck!

I was going to use a washing up bowl, but running stuff straight down the sink is a bit required, I think, so I'm scrubbing with a cloth and shampoo in the sink, with nowhere really for the clean most-of the blanket to go. (I'm so glad that it's just the corner and the bit where the corner was touching a bit near the middle - I wouldn't want to be doing this for the whole thing!)

Yuck.

Also, gastric flu is a virus, right? So it doesn't just die off? I hope that having been ill already means that I'm immune...

Comments

[spikeygrrl.livejournal.com]

Ugh, gastric flu. Whether or not you're immune depends on what it is. IIRC, Norwalk you can't get an immunity to (I've had it four times D: although each time was slightly easier to recover from than the previous) but there are other types that you can.

[favouredenemy.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure that the one that was going around was the Norwalk/norovirus one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus

[beast-the-yeti.livejournal.com]

I think I'm partly immune to this strain given that I'd been around various people who got it during the stage when it's most infectious and didn't get ill. I got a horrific fever and the nausea a couple of weeks before everyone else, but not the full-blown thing. Reckon it's because I had gastric flu way, way back in the distant past of childhood (I got ill a LOT).

I think there's specific powder you can get for cleaning wool, alternatively just use a bit of dissolved washing powder on the spot.