What to eat when you have a stomach bug

It’s important with viral gastroenteritis to keep yourself hydrated, especially if you are losing fluids through diarrhoea or vomiting. — TNS

Viral gastroenteritis is an intestinal infection marked by watery diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, nausea or vomiting, headache, muscle aches, and sometimes fever.

It’s often called a stomach bug or the stomach flu, but it’s not actually the flu or influenza, which is a respiratory illness.