Re: Flu {Was: Bath vs shower}


"Jpinny" <jpinny@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The Traveller wrote:
> > <Johnny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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

Others in town were given penicillin and got over it quicker. I bought
several bottle of cough mixture and it didin't help. The only thing that
helped was a packet of Sharps mints.

Jp. Will you be my doctor please.?

Edith. (Vannkopper = Chicken pox) vann means water. kopper = cups.


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