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Cases of stomach flu rising in the Miami Valley

MIAMI VALLEY — A doctor at Dayton Children’s Hospital says the Miami Valley is dealing with a wave of stomach flu cases.

Dr. Lisa Ziemnik, Division Chief for Urgent Care and Kids’ Express at Dayton Children’s Hospital, told News Center 7′s Molly Koweek that each of the two urgent care facilities are seeing five to seven cases a day. She said that doesn’t include the patients coming into the emergency department.

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For each one of those kids, she estimated another 10 have the stomach flu at home.

Ziemnik said with this virus, the first 24 hours are the worst.

“I feel like it might be a little more aggressive this time around, where the vomiting is a little bit more robust, in comparison to some of the other viruses that we’ve seen go through,” Ziemnik said.

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Still, she said it was common for pediatrics.

She explained that these types of stomach virus are extremely contagious. If one person in a family gets it, she said it would be a good idea for everyone in the family to stay home for a day or two, because it’s very likely someone else is going to come down with the same virus.

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