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ginger • 23 • psy/soc • not a kink blog

[spiral-abuse]

erm you can call me ginger, 'cause i forgot what my name on main was!

had to remake this blog so my main is inconspicuous when i follow my favorite artists 'n stuff.....

this is still spiral-abuse and i am still a freak for sickfics and tummyaches

i write: emeto, fevers, sickfics (of course), blood/injury, and hurt/comfort

i won't write: kink/nsfw, omo/scat (appearing on rare occasions, WITH warnings), and the usual icks like pedophilia, racism, homophobia/transphobia, etc.

current obsessions: tales of arise, honkai star rail, genshin impact, zenless zone zero, tetro danganronpa, pokemon (legends arceus and scarvi legends Z-A)

thank you and bye-bye

[ethereousdelirious]

Is anyone else doing Sicktember? How you doing? How's it going? *desperate for commisseration*

[spiral-abuse]

lowkey going horribly

[pokemonispain]

Why is he like this? Emetophile and illness kink just bundled in

[spiral-abuse]

LMAO i posted the same thing on my blog 😭😭 absolute FREAKY

[spiral-abuse]

lohen is hella freaky

[sicktember]

It’s time…

Sicktember 2026 Prompts:

1. Crash Out

2. Worried sick

3. Forced to care for a rival

4. Medical restraints

5. “Stop whining, you’re fine,” (They’re not fine)

6. Doctor visit

7. Sick on a date

8. “I can’t keep anything down,”

9. Sick in a snowstorm

10. “Stop getting out of bed!”

11. Wrapped in blankets

12. Sick in front of a partner for the first time

13. A usually shy pet begins to curl up to the sick character more

14. Infected wound

15. Rehab after a severe illness

16. Sick while camping

17. Caregiver burn out

18. Character gets spoiled by their caregiver

19. “I can’t afford to go to the doctor,”

20. Parenting while sick

21. Gaunt face

22. Carnival food poisoning

23. X-Ray

24. “My boss won’t let me take a sick day.”

25. Out of medicine

26. “I just want my parent (s),”

27. Work from home day

28. Dizzy

29. “You made the soup wrong!”

30. Mental health day

Alt Prompts:

1. “I don’t need anyone to take care of me!” (Loves being dotted on)

2. Pillow fort

3. “I’m bored.” “You wouldn’t be bored if you took a damn nap,”

4. Flowers

5. Tucked into bed

[dutifullyshamelessearthquake]

I wonder. If I can get myself to participate. And maybe get out of my slump...?

[spiral-abuse]

i fear that i may have the tomodachi life autism

[macgyvermedical]

Treating Diarrheal Illness

Someone recently sent me an ask about vomiting and diarrhea. I got almost all the way through writing it and then tumblr ate it. Didn't save it as a draft, didn't even put the ask back in my inbox, just poof'd it into oblivion.

But it was a good ask, and not one I get very often, so I still want to answer it- it essentially said the following:

How could a non-medical person in an apocalyptic setting treat someone who had severe diarrhea and vomiting, assuming the person in gastrointestinal distress was a doctor and could give them some direction? Can/should they give antidiarrheal medication and how would they go about doing that since the patient would probably throw it up?

So very glad you asked:

Diarrhea

The nice thing about most diarrheal illness is that as long as the person stays hydrated, they have a really good chance at surviving. Water is okay for hydration, but if the caregiver can get their hands on some salt, some potassium-based salt substitute, and some sugar, they can make a really easy and effective oral rehydration solution. The recipe is as follows:

Mix together:

1 liter of water

1/2 tsp salt (you want this to be slightly less salty than tears)

1/8 tsp potassium-based salt substitute (if you have this, great, if not, you can leave it out and it will still be effective)

8 tsp sugar

The goal is to get them to drink more volume of ORS than they are pooping- think at least a cup of ORS per poop.

Vomiting

The nice thing about uncontrollable vomiting is, again, that as long as the person stays hydrated, they will probably survive. Hydrating someone who can't keep anything down is a little trickier for the lay caregiver. Fortunately, there's another entrance to the GI tract.

The colon absorbs water. That's the colon's job. It takes the liquid coming from the small intestine and pulls water out of it until it becomes solid poop. A lay caregiver can take advantage of this process to hydrate someone if necessary by inserting a flexible tube (enema tip, catheter tip, NG tube, IV tubing, whatever relatively clean tube you have lying around that fits) a few inches into the rectum and SLOWLY instilling saline (1 liter water to 1/2 tsp salt). The colon can absorb between 2 and 6 liters of water this way per 24-hour period, which can absolutely keep a person hydrated even without an IV.

Diarrhea AND Vomiting

The annoying thing is that when diarrhea comes with vomiting severe enough to prevent being able to keep liquids down, neither of these really work.

So either your caregiver character needs a method that doesn't involve the GI tract at all, or they need to get creative.

IV hydration has a lot of drawbacks in the apocalypse. For one thing, it involves a lot of specialized equipment- the tiny catheters that sit in the vein, sterile tubing with a drip chamber, sterile fluids, and saline locks- all of which are nearly impossible to improvise. Plus, in the case of this ask specifically- doctors generally don't know how to start IVs. That's a nursing skill and unless a doctor is an anesthesiologist they probably haven't put an IV in since med school (where they did it exactly once).

Subcutaneous (subq) hydration is slower and requires all the same supplies. The nice thing about subq though is that unlike an IV catheter, which has to sit in the vein and takes skill/experience to place, in subq hydration the caregiver only has to place a catheter into the patient's fat (something a lot easier to talk someone through). This can instill about 60ml/hr (about 1.5 liters/24 hr). If they have the supplies and can throw more than one catheter in the person, they can probably keep them hydrated this way.

Recommendations

What I would recommend for this story, however, is to pile a bunch of anti-nausea remedies on top of each other to try to get the puking under control, then work on the diarrhea.

If this were my patient and I was in the apocalypse, I would start by putting a cool rag on the back of my patient's neck and have them smell an alcohol pad or some mint, help them wash out their mouth so it doesn't taste like puke, and try to keep them from puking for about an hour. If they make it that long, I'd start with having them drink about an ounce of clean water. If they don't throw it up over the course of the next half hour, I'd give an ounce of coca cola (I don't usually do brand names, but coca cola has a high concentration of phosphoric acid, which is a great anti-emetic plus the bubbles can help with nausea as well).

I'd then drop to an ounce every 15 mins, then an ounce every 10, alternating water and coke, or ORS and coke. The goal is very small amounts of liquid with time in between. If they become severely nauseous, back off and start again after a half hour. If they throw up, start the whole thing over again.

If at any point during this they had a prescription medication available like ondansetron, compazine, or promethazine, they could crush it and have the patient put it under their tongue- that way they wouldn't have to swallow it and risk throwing it back up. Some of it would absorb, and if they happened to swallow some, that would also be great.

Once the vomiting is moderately under control, they could give bismouth subsalicylate (pepto-bismol) and loperamide. Both work against diarrhea. For loperamide, the dosing is two tablets after the first loose stool, then one after each subsequent loose stool. Bismouth subsalicylate and loperamide can be taken together.

Stopping Things Up

A question a lot of people ask is whether you should take anything to stop diarrhea. This usually comes with the idea that the person with diarrhea must be pooping for a reason, and stopping it up is trapping an infection in there and making it worse.

If the diarrhea is being caused by a bacteria or virus, that infection is in the walls of the digestive tract, and it spreads to other people via infectious poop. Pooping does not get rid of the infection. It just makes it more likely that someone else will catch it, and that the patient will become dehydrated. So taking medication to slow down the poopcano is generally a good idea here, since the goal is basically just to wait until the immune system kicks the infection or antibiotics wipe it out, and pooping doesn't help with that.

Now. If the diarrhea is being caused by a toxin, including a toxin from, say, c-diff (an infection from a bacteria that takes over the gut after some antibiotics and causes life-threatening diarrhea/colitis), taking a medication to stop the poop is a bad idea- since the toxin will get trapped and continue to cause problems. Same if it's something like a food allergy or intolerance- it's going to keep messing you up until it's out, so better to let it get out.

How can you tell? Well, here's where I refer you to a doctor. In this situation, the doctor might be able to make an informed choice on whether they wanted to take an anti-diarrheal medication based on what they thought was causing the vomiting and diarrhea.

[pokemonispain]

Food in the back of the fridge

Summary: Kieran suffers a small bout of food poisoning while neglecting his usual self care. (Takes place during the Teal mask/ Blueberry academy arc before the protagonist arrives.)

Fine.

Kieran was fine. He was just fine. He had this completely under control and it would be fine.

He tells himself this even as he finds himself stumbling away from where he’d been standing in the field surveying the area for a potential training space.

He’d felt off since last night at least he vaguely thinks so, burning the candle at both ends rarely resulted in feeling the best.

Still to clear his head Kieran had choked down some random food in his dorm’s mini fridge before passing out for a few hours. Which did very very little to dent his already massive insomnia induced sleep deprivation.

In fact he’d tossed and turned in his sleep small body cloaked with sweat unbeknownst to him, his stomach angrily tossing and churning cramping as it bloated due to the tainted food.

He’d woke up feeling sluggish and a tad queasy, nothing new and Kieran knew that once he got to work it would start easing up. It always did.

It had been fine, completely and utterly under control until he stepped outside. Kieran was used to the humidity and heat back home but for some reason the moment he’d stepped outside it had felt as if the heat was making the contents of his stomach boil.

Even Kieran had felt the wave of nausea roll through his gut as it twisted with a cramp, it had almost made him shiver truthfully. The way the cold had rolled over him, blood draining from his face in an instant.

His hand had brushed his stomach briefly as he stared into space for a moment, muffling a sour rumbling burp into his fist he’d spit off to the side before taking a deep breath in.

He does his damnedest to ignore it, the fact that his stomach feels awful, churning and bubbling so sickeningly with nausea that even his breathing stutters for a moment as he puts all his strength into making his stomach stop lurching slightly.

Fine. He was fine. What was a little sickness in the face of power anyway. Kieran wouldn’t have been the first person to attempt to power through food poisoning really. Figured that one of the few times he ate actual food it’d bite him in the damn ass.

He’d sluggishly managed to make it to the field by keeping his eye on the prize. Training.

If he’d just started training he could lose himself in the flow of it all. Of the sensation of power, the high of adrenaline as he attempted to hone every part of him to perfection.

He’d made it alright, in fact the moment he had his stomach had made a low wet sickly gurgling, and he’d softly gagged eyes closing as he slapped a hand over his mouth.

Swaying in place for a few moments.

Which was why he had wound up in his current position, trying to obscure himself as much as possible behind the nearby tree. Curled over and a arm tightly around his stomach as he leaned over bracing himself on his knees.

His brain was practically blaring like an alarm, a combination of disgust and annoyance at his own stupidity.

A burp bubbles up from between his pale trembling lips as he tucks his strand of dark hair behind his ear, it was a relief he wore it tied back lately.

The burp tasted sour, and weirdly greasy on his tongue. His stomach feels tight, bloated heavily as it swirled around the barely digested tainted food.

A slow shaky groan slips from pale trembling lips as skin prickles at his skin, a rush of cold washing over him and making him tremble.

It forces him to his knees trees unshed involuntarily tears gathering in his eyes as drool began to seep from his lips into the grass.

The salvia drips in a thread or two from his mouth, leaving his lips glossy and wet.

Hesitantly he rubs at his stomach a bit, more so to relieve the pain but also the buzzing sensation welling in his chest.

Panic.

Fuck.

Gritting his teeth Kieran wants to curse as he squeezes his eyes shut, his breathing turning into a shudder as his belly lurched violently beneath his arm.

A burp tears up his throat from the very pit of his stomach, sounding and feeling raw as the mess of tainted food rained down thick into the grass.

He wanted to get it over with. But he refused to panic, he couldn’t.

It wasn’t an option.

Kieran should’ve know something was wrong considering he deluded himself into thinking he had those, especially while he was currently retching up congealed slimy pile after congealed slimy pile of vomit into the grass simply because he’s been so tunnel visioned to check a fucking expiration date.

The buzzing sensation that had been in his chest has him begin hiccuping, as if the panic had trapped itself in his gut.

The hiccups start off hollow, progressively getting airy before seemingly catching as it turned wet and rumbling, the noise gurgling in Kieran’s throat as the final wave of vomit splashed into that grass.

He’s trembling violently as he barely holds himself up over his own pile of vomit. He feels like he’s freezing teeth chattering as his nose runs and threads of bile and saliva trickles from his pale lips.

His face is startlingly pale, the color of spoiled milk. And honestly as he remembers the faint off color and taste to his food last night his body lurched in a full retch.

The noise is vile, wet and choked even though nothing comes up.

Eventually Kieran does sit back however, pale and shaky nausea still sloshing in his stomach although some of the bloating had gone down so at least he no longer felt like he ate a balloon.

For once in a little while since he arrived at Blueberry Academy Kieran is willing to admit he needs a bit of a break. Even if it’s only a day.

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I CANT BELIEVE YOU WROTE KIERAN STUFF THIS IS AMAZING

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Hey so I know we All Know This but I will NEVER be over a character being feverish and delirious and making No sense. I will never be over a glittery-eyed, shivering, distressed character weakly gripping another's arm and asking them questions they don't know the answer to, and probably don't mean anything at all. I will never be over characters calling out for people either long gone or right next to them, but unrecognizable in their delirium. I will never be over a character crying in frustration and fear over something in their head they can't explain to whoever is helping them, and all they can do in return is stroke their hair and shush them gently.

[ethereousdelirious]

Had a moment of divine inspiration re that appendicitis fic:

Knee on belly = accidental rebound test

[spiral-abuse]

please never stop cooking

[ghostlychill]

Taking their own temperature with a thermometer but also putting a hand on their forehead because that number can’t be right, can it?

[sunshinejojo]

Caretaker and Sickie are out at an event when Sickie says "I need to use the bathroom" and rushes off.

When Sickie doesn't come back, Caretaker sends a text.

Caretaker: You ok?

Sickie: No.

Sickie: I just threw up. Kinda a lot.

[ethereousdelirious]

Hmm sorry for going where most of you can't follow but I' trying to organize my Legends Z-A plot bunnies and figured I'd make the options into a poll in case anyone has thoughts

What should Therie work on first

request in my inbox for Gwynn×Canari sickfic

oomf's suggestion of Grisham getting heat-related illness

whacking Ivor with the appendicitis hammer

Griselle picks up skating and hurts herself outside Mable's lab

Lebanne gets sick and Jacinthe is weirdly nice about it (GAAAYYYY)

*throwing tomatoes* go work on one of your vanilla plot bunnies

Please come back to [insert fandom here]

Voting ended onApr 25

[ethereousdelirious]

we're so back. what's next

request in my inbox for Gwynn×Canari sickfic

oomf's suggestion of Grisham getting heat-related illness

whacking Ivor with the appendicitis hammer

Griselle picks up skating and hurts herself outside Mable's lab

part 2 of that PlayRough fic NEEOOWWW

*throwing tomatoes* go work on one of your vanilla plot bunnies

please come back to [insert fandom here]

Voting ended onApr 30

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IVOR TIME

[ethereousdelirious]

Augh augh augh I should "sick and injured" Ivor

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PLEASEEEEE

[thehouseofwhump]

Heres Some Nausea Whump Tropes Since I've been Gone for The Longest:

Sorry that I haven't been very consistent with posting on here, I've been getting over procrastination so I should be posting way more frequently so you guys will have more content from me, thank you!!

These tropes mostly consist of some of my favorites.

PRE-NAUSEA WHUMP:

✮ When the whumpee has their hand over or near their mouth "just in case".

✮ Going quiet and answering questions with short hums or nods.

✮ Sudden sensitivity to smells and or the smallest or movements.

✮ Sitting very still because, any motion feels risky.

✮ Those nauseous coughs right before actual vomit or gagging comes along.

✮ When the whumpee is asked if they're okay, and they whisper "I'm fine..." a little too quicky (bonus points if they hesitate for a bit before responding to any questions at all).

✮ When the whumpee gets the slow realization: "I think I might throw up."

PRE-VOMIT WHUMP:

✮ The whumpee breathing through their nose like it might help.

✮ Once again, the nauseous coughs.

✮ When the whumpee let's out a series of wet, nauseous burps.

✮ Being asked if they're okay, and instead or answering verbally they just shake their head no, as their eyes remain highly unfocused.

✮ When the whumpee's belly starts to gurgle.

✮ When the whumpee begins to salivate a lot more than what they usually do.

✮ Knees pulled up and or arms wrapped around their stomach.

✮ When the whumpee avoids touching their stomach,nervous it might trigger vomiting.

✮ The whumpee starting to whimper as their stomach muscles start to contract.

✮ Shame or embarrassment hitting before anything else does.

DURING / LOSS OF CONTROL:

✮ Those gagged burps.

✮ The whumpee's stomach muscles contracting with each gag they produce.

✮ The whumpee letting out coughs after each gag.

✮ Gripping their own stomach (someone gripping the whumpee's stomach) to help comfort or aid vomiting.

✮ The whumpee gagging due to feeling small chunks of vomit at the back of the throat.

✮ When the whumpee is getting their back rubbed/patted for comfort.

✮ Tears start to fill their eyes, and their nose starts running due to the force thats being used to push up stomach contents.

✮ When the whumpee's body becomes really shakey.

✮ When the whumpee let's a out shakey breaths during breaks or after every gag.

✮ When the whumpee is scared to stick their fingers down their throat, despite not being able to get anything up at all.

✮ The humiliation the whumpee feels knowing that they can't stop it.

POST-VOMIT WHUMP:

✮ Slumped posture, completely boneless.

✮ Thick saliva dripping from their lips and chin.

✮ Wiping their mouth with th back of their hand or sleeve, simply because they just dint care anymore.

✮ When the whumpee is having trouble walking due to weakness from strain and or overall sickness.

✮ Repeats "I'm okay, I'm okay..." (bonus points if they are most definitely not okay).

✮ Dizzy and wobbly when they try to stand.

✮ The cold sweats afterwards.

✮ Softly and shakily asking for water.

✮ Remaining in front of the toilet not fully sure if they're done puking.

RECOVERY / AFTERCARE WHUMP:

✮ Wrapped in the blanket even if they're still warm or are overheating.

✮ Sitting inches away from a fan due to overheating.

✮ Sipping water almost too carefully, pausing in between with a blank stare at nothing.

✮ Those nauseous, post-vomit hiccups.

✮The whumpee's breath hitching in their throat.

✮ Someone instisting that they rest; the whumpee finally not fighting it (bonus points if they keep on fighting).

✮ Exhaustion crashing down all at once.

✮ Embarrased apologies that don't need to be said.

✮ When the whumpee breaks down and starting starts weakly crying.

✮ Falling asleep mid-sentence.

✮ Feels honest relief of being taken care of, instead of having to continue to hold it all together.

BONUS WHUMP TROPES: EMOTIONAL FACTORS

✮ Most upset about being a "burden" fathering than the fact that they are sick

✮ Trying to clean up afterwards despite barley being able to stand.

✮ The whumpee downplaying their sickness:"It's not that bad." (they say as they're still shakey).

✮ Softly sobbing into the caretaker or whumper's shirt

✮ Realizing how close they were to pushing themselves a little too far.

[fluziska]

hey i have the entire anime in japanese now and in this scene originally hes all pitiful and congested-sounding and sniffly and ANYWAYS i want to FUCKING DIE

[bsideheart]

more characters with psychic powers who get migraines and seizures after they use them. i wanna see someone kill a bunch of ppl with their mind and then lay in a dark room vomiting for two days