How to deal with the MEGA flue?

[narrow road travelerParticipant 1680]

OJ, rest, Nyquil, chicken soup with a lot of vegetables. Will help in the medium term.

Short term, suffering is unavoidable.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tsu

[SamsquanchParticipant 4226]

Keep hydrated and sleep brother.

I never get a flu shot either, but I did get a Tetanus shot with a Whooping Cough booster a few years ago because apparently whooping cough was making a comeback after people chose to stop vaccinating their kids.

[HermitParticipant]

ghost wrote:

Well, you should of got the flu shot.

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do other than rest and drinking lots of water.

I hope you feel better soon, Pete.

That’s been the best thing when I was sick with any kind of illness. Just sleep as much as you can and drink as much water as you can. Depending on how you feel at the time, lots of hot broth can be good also.

The evil in women’s hearts leaves them no moral bounds as to inhibit them from descending to the lowest levels of darkness to acquire their self entitled desires.

[Anonymous 3]

I suggest cooking a hot drink of ginger, lemon and honey. A typical potato sized piece of ginger will be enough for a big pot of drink. This hot drink always helps me. In theory, vitamin C can also help.

Warning! many anti-flu medicines contain paracetamol, and you should not take that if you choose to drink booze in that evening (or next half a day)! Alcohol and paracetamol together is likely to really damage your liver.

Also, give your clothes a hot wash and clean the floor with hot water and some bleach, and get some antibacterial soap.(flu and ‘common cold’ is not caused by cold but bacteria and viruses, only the immune system is somewhat weaker in the cold…) Avoid public transport, to not get more sick, I also got some flu when I had to ride bus (full of coughing people) for a week.

[Anonymous 42]

Seriously, drink lots of liquid so your kidneys don’t fail and back up from all the shattered and broken dead cells adrift in your blood, there’s a war going on inside you and the kidneys clean up all the dead bodies! No s~~~, not joking, drink and p~~~ and drink and p~~~ and drink and p~~~ until you feel better!

Water is the medium to remove all the dead s~~~ inside you!

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Muriness cure is what I used to do in Law School. Drink a fifth of booze and then bundle up under lots of blankets and sweat it out—used to work but then I was a lot younger back then!

Many thanks to everyone!

[Anonymous 42]

PistolPete wrote:

Drink a fifth of booze

Hate to “POP” your bubble, alcohol is the worst thing you can put in your system! The big filter (liver) shuts down over 500 functions to go to work metabolizing the alcohol!

Water

Water

Water

Water!

[MarketWatcherParticipant]

ghost wrote:

Well, you should of got the flu shot.

/sigh/ NO.

ghost wrote:

drinking lots of water

Yes.

Get better brother.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Anonymous wrote:

alcohol is the worst thing you can put in your system!

I don’t know man–took a couple of shots of Jager last night and I actually got a couple of hours of sleep!

[HermitParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

PistolPete wrote:

Drink a fifth of booze

Hate to “POP” your bubble, alcohol is the worst thing you can put in your system! The big filter (liver) shuts down over 500 functions to go to work metabolizing the alcohol!

Water

Water

Water

Water!

I agree. I like to drink, but alcohol lowers your immune system and dehydrates your body. Nothing is better for your body than water, especially when ill.

PistolPete wrote:

MG-ɹǝʍo┴ wrote:

alcohol is the worst thing you can put in your system!

I don’t know man–took a couple of shots of Jager last night and I actually got a couple of hours of sleep!

I also agree that a little alcohol can help you get to sleep, however, you need to drink even more water to counteract the dehydration that the alcohol causes.

The evil in women’s hearts leaves them no moral bounds as to inhibit them from descending to the lowest levels of darkness to acquire their self entitled desires.

[Anonymous 42]

PistolPete wrote:

MG-ɹǝʍo┴ wrote:

alcohol is the worst thing you can put in your system!

I don’t know man–took a couple of shots of Jager last night and I actually got a couple of hours of sleep!

I didn’t say it wasn’t a depressant anhebriating narcotic, I just said it isn’t good for you!

Like any other narcotic anhebriat, you’re going out to la la land!

[DocParticipant]

So I know what to do next time I get flu.

Nailed.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape, finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

[The Black ScorpionParticipant 2145]

Prevention is the best cure.

2000 units of Vitamin D3 before bed every day is the best way to prevent the flu/colds. For $10 you can buy a big bottle that will last you a year.

You may get the flu, but it will be a mild version and it will be out of your system in 48 hours max. Unlike other people who are totally wasted for up to a week.

I haven’t missed a days work due to illness in 17 years and I can testify that taking Vitamin D3 at night every day is a big reason for it.

I’ve never had the flu shot and never will – vaccines are toxic.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover that it was not fish you were after. - Henry David Thoreau

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

well black scorpion has a point–unfortunately ONCE the germs are in and doing a number prevention is…questionable. BUT having said that I took 3000 mg. of C everyday for the last two days and I think its helping!

17 years?!?!?! YOU are a rock! and clearly NOT a federal employee

[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

PistolPete wrote:

I sound like a cat purring. YIkes!

Yeah. Some feminist is going to snap you up quick like.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[Anonymous 43]

im fighting some kind of diseasevirus. bronchitis and it is f~~~ing with my brain, not thinking clearly I feel my brain failing.

[Anonymous 42]

Anonymous wrote:

im fighting some kind of diseasevirus. bronchitis and it is f~~~ing with my brain, not thinking clearly I feel my brain failing.

Are you getting any medial help? Bronchitis is serious!

Just tell them you identify as a woman and want all the rights and privileges afforded to a woman!

You know, it’s all about gender politics weather or not a man lives or dies!

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