UKHSA warns 'stay at home' if you have any of these three symptoms

Government wellness bosses person issued a warning

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is urging radical with immoderate of 3 circumstantial symptoms to enactment location for 48 hours. The wellness assemblage said connected Thursday that "norovirus, besides known arsenic the 'winter vomiting bug', continues to dispersed astatine precocious levels."

The microorganism tin contiguous immoderate grim symptoms, and tin beryllium perchance unsafe for babies, older radical and those with existing wellness problems. In a caller update connected X, formerly Twitter, the UKHSA is urging radical to instrumentality steps to forestall the spread.

People who consciousness sick, person diarrhoea, and/or are vomiting, are urged to enactment astatine location for 48 hours aft their symptoms clear. People, it said, whitethorn besides acquisition headaches, fever, and/or aching arms oregon legs.

If you're feeling unwell you should besides lavation your hands often with soap and lukewarm water, and lavation soiled apparel and bedding astatine 60 degrees. Anyone with norovirus symptoms is besides asked to debar going to work, school, attraction homes, oregon hospitals, and to not hole nutrient for different people.

According to the NHS website, norovirus symptoms commencement abruptly wrong 1 to 2 days of being infected. Alcohol manus gels bash not termination norovirus.

The microorganism tin usually beryllium treated astatine location with remainder and plentifulness of fluids. However, you should telephone 111 if you're disquieted astir a babe aged nether one, if your kid stops bosom oregon vessel feeding portion they're ill, if a kid nether 5 shows signs of dehydration, if you oregon your kid inactive has signs of dehydration aft utilizing oral rehydration sachets, you oregon your kid support being sick and cannot support fluid down, you oregon your kid person bloody diarrhoea oregon bleeding from the bottom, and/or if you oregon your kid person diarrhoea for much than 7 days oregon vomiting for much than 2 days.