4. Nausea/ Sickness
An unpleasant symptom of many illnesses is the associated feeling of nausea and sickness. With the flu, this feeling can linger for days and doesn’t even require the person to have eaten anything. The trouble here is that on an empty stomach, nausea and sickness can cause things like dry heaving and the production of bile and stomach acids instead of regurgitations. It’s an all-around nasty experience, whether you’ve eaten or not and sometimes even keeping water down is a struggle.
With roseola, the sickness and nausea can come and go in waves, but it doesn’t normally last as long as it would do with the flu. In both cases, patients report either vomiting regularly or feeling as though they need to vomit. It’s hard to know which one is worse and perhaps it’s a case of the grass always being greener. When you have stuff inside you to vomit, at least you can get it out, but when you’re limited to dry heaving, at least you don’t have to take up residence in toilet bowl alley. No fun at all whichever way you look at it.