When Your Child Vomits in the Car

Yesterday, as I was driving I happened to look in my side view mirror and saw my 12year old vomiting up chunks of food out his window.  I slowly pulled over and saw that he had thrown up inside of the car too, all down the door, inside of the window, and some on his seat.  He gets out of the car and I help him to remain calm after the uncontrollable rage of vomiting from a triggered gag reflex with coughing.  Even his pants and hands are semi-covered in vomit, and he was pretty upset... he kept apologizing for throwing up in my car.  Of course, I told him I wasn't mad at him; that he was sick and it's really okay that I have to clean this up.

Luckily, we had just spend the night over my mom's house the night before, so he had a change of clean clothes in the trunk.  I helped to rinse off his hands with some water from my water bottle, and he changed into vomit-free pants and took off his first outer later of clothing.

I pulled over into a nearby parking lot, as he walked over.  We managed to get some paper towels and 2 cups of water from the nearby drive-up joint, and I proceeded to work on cleaning the vomit-filled car, without vomiting myself from the smell.  About 2.5cups of water, about 10napkins, and 2 small car towels later, I had the inside of the car looking pretty good.  One of my younger sisters who happened to be with us was pretty amazed at my work!

All along, my 7year old was peacefully sleeping in his booster car seat (which he is anxious to get rid finally).  He wakes up as I am applying OnGuard & Lemon essential oils to sanitize and freshen up the smell in the car, our hands, and apply some behind our ears.  Man, we are all so grateful I had my handy 5ml bottle

travel size essential oils pack, and extra towels in the car.  We were all able to make it home without any barfing, where I managed to do a thorough cleaning job inside and out!!  One of the times having hella extra stuff (towels & travel size essential oils) in my car paid off.  I guess you could say I was prepared! YES!