grape juice to ward off stomach bug?

[looseseal]

Did I read about that here? I think I have the plague. DS1 already had it. I'm still nursing DS2, that should help save him, right? I want to spare H.

@stellasmom, was it you that mentioned it?

[eddy]

I have heard this but I have been scared to do it because the risk of vomiting bright red grape juice sounds like a bad scene.

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Mar 27, 2014 7:45:30 GMT -5 eddy said:

I have heard this but I have been scared to do it because the risk of vomiting bright red grape juice sounds like a bad scene.

LOL.


Yeah. But it has to be the real kind, not that 10% crap.

[DotAndBuzz]

I don't know if it is voodoo, placebo, or if there's a little something to it, but I've been chugging about 8 oz of grape juice 2x/day (straight grape juice, not a juice cocktail, or with added calcium or anything), and everyone else in the house has had stomach bugs except me.

KNOCKING ON WOOD RIGHT NOW!

I also think I read it here, maybe from cleo29? But yeah, so far so good for me. I think you have to do it before you feel sick. It's a prevention thing, not a fix-it thing. Then again, I've also washed my hands nearly raw, and am wiping down sinks, doorknobs, remote controls, banisters, and light switches like it's my job, so that may have something to do with it.

[panicked]

I swear by it! If it's already in the house, a glass 3x a day is the way to go. Also, elderberry extract (sambuccol) and activated charcoal caplets help too!

[eddy]

Mar 27, 2014 7:50:02 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

I don't like grape juice. I'm afraid chugging it daily would set off any potential illness I might be harboring. lol. Does it have to be the red kind? The white grape juice might be less offensive.

It has to the red stuff because of reasons I am not sure of lol.

[hopecounts]

Use white grape juice.
We did this for DD when H and I got a tummy bug this past summer.
She didn't get it, maybe coincidence but it can't hurt.

[cbwm1]

Mar 27, 2014 7:51:27 GMT -5 panicked said:

I swear by it! If it's already in the house, a glass 3x a day is the way to go. Also, elderberry extract (sambuccol) and activated charcoal caplets help too!

I swear by elderberry syrup. I spent September - December sick as a dog, then started taking elderberry syrup once a day and I've managed to avoid every illness my child and husband have thrown at me since (and there have been several).