Re: Flu {Was: Bath vs shower}

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I have never had flu. When I did national service in the
medical corps the whole camp of 3000 recruits caught Hong
Kong flu - all except 6 of us.  Each hut was turned into a
hospital ward and we six, plus the recovering ones, ran
around like lunatics looking after the others. I am relying
on my imune system to this day.

Rex 

Or you could look at it this way: You're way overdue!

Johnny-had-flu-and-trust-me-you-don't-want-it 


I was really sick last year. I began to feel funny in February and by the
time June came around, my lungs had almost no capacity left. I then went to
the doctor who gave me no medicine and said I must ride it out myself. I had
a dry cough and fever and coughed until I choked and threw up and I really
felt awful. My doctor took a blood sample and told me I had whooping cough.
I had whooping cough when I was 4 and I remember the difference, (excuse)
with the (slime?) going up and down in the throat cutting off my air and
making me throw up at the very last minute before my head explode or I
fainted.

question: Can one have whooping cough twice? I had all the school jabs. I
don't think it was whooping cough, myself. Many in the town were in the same
predicament.

Edith.


It's not beyond possibility that your immunity wore off. We have to have boosters for a lot of things. But if you remember it, you're probably right. Maybe it was lost in translation. My Dutch doctor looked at my spotty son in 1990 and said "Don't worry, it's only Smallpox." I had to laugh and tell him that I'd already found out that "waterpokken" was known as chickenpox, not "smallpox" in English, and that "De Pok" was the killer. His English was otherwise wonderful, but there wasn't much reading about poxes in the BMJ these days.

But your doctor is right, that if you are suffering from a viral infection, no antibiotics will work, and you won't start to recover until you hit a high fever, possibly around 39 or 40C, to really zap it. I never take anything to stop a fever. Fevers kill bugs dead. I normally go to bed and just rest and shiver until the fever hits. I let it roll, and drink plenty of fluids until I start to sweat it out.

Your doctor could have taken pity and given you a cough suppressant, or an expectorant, and probably something to ease the aches and pains. A hot toddy is a good alternative at bedtime, and, if it's strong enough you go to sleep with a smile on your face, and feel a lot better after a good night's sleep.

Jp
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