can someone clear this up for me?

[lizzo]

So there's this guy at work and today we were talking in the lunchroom,
he came down and sat in front me of me and we got talking, I asked him
if he went snowboarding (I live in Whistler), this is how the
conversation went

me: so did you go snowboarding today?

him: ohh, no i've been sick

me: oh no! with what?

him: i don't know i was throwing up all yesterday

me: ohh really? are you still barfing today?

him: no

me: ohh okay

him: but don't touch anything in the meat department!



then i stayed really calm, left soon after, washed my hands and calmed
myself down. "k, it's not likely he's very contagious, you washed your
hands with antibacterial soap, you don't even work in the same
department!" So I calmed myself down, and went back to work, pushing
the thought out of my head.



then today when i tried telling my mom about how well i handled it, i
said "so you think it's likely i could get it?" and she was like "ohh
yeah! you two were talking, that's how flus get around." so i'm not
panicking, because i know the risk is fairly though but that doesn't
mean there's a possibility. i'm not acutally as scared as i usually am,
of course i am scared but i'm just kind of like, yeahh i'll hate it
alot if i get sick, i hope i don't!!

[lizzo]

so i guess what i'm really asking is



who is right, me or my mom

and

is there a big risk of me getting sick?



thank you everyone in advance, i really appreciate your answers

[brina85]

you i relly dont think you could catch anything from a few moments of talking to one another i mean you guys were not kissing and sharing glass and he was not vomiting while you were in front of him and that is how you catch a stomach flu for the reasons i gave you so i wouldnt worry at all

[hippychick]

Regular Flu can get passed on like that but with stomach flu you HAVE to ingest their germs so through kissing or sharing glasses or nit washing your hands OR in the very unlikely event he has Norwalk, standing over him while he V*. If you don't do that and you keep clean then you are fine! That is not how stomach flu gets around.

[chicajojobe]

You did wonderful! No interrogations, no panic attack for the rest of the day. Bravo!



Your mom did the classic layman's mistake and jumped to the conclusion that any sickness that's worse then a cold is "the flu".



If he had influenza, which, yes. can cause v*, then you could catch it
just from standing around talking to him. However, I don't think it's
very likely that's what he has because from what I hear the true flu
kicks your ass! Everyone I've known to have describes themselves
as being so miserable they lay around wanting to die for the first few
days. If he really had the flu then it's extremely unlikely he'd
be at work the next day and if he was you'd be able to tell he was sick
just by looking at him!



Most likely he had one of our dreaded sv's, and as everyone has said
those you could catch from him if you'd been kissing or sharing eating
utensils or if he'd been preparing any of your food without wearing
gloves.



Congratulations on not freaking out. You are my hero!