It’s that time of year again, everyone seems to be falling ill with some virus or other and as of yesterday I can include myself on the list. How many other dopers are off work fighting the flu and what tactics are you using to defeat this foul beast?
Personally I am going for the simple bed rest and plenty of water. I have never had much success with the stupidly expensive medicines so for the first time I am boycotting them in favour of good ole H20. It seems to be going pretty well, I can stand up without falling over which is an improvement over yesterday.
My whole family (wife & 3 kids) has been stricken by an intestinal virus in the past few days. Yesterday, I began feeling the telltale squirmy stomach and had some runs. I said “Damn the Torpedoes!” and drank 4 beers last night. Today, I’m symptom-free, baby! Take that, all you mamby-pamby “avoid alcohol” weenies!
There’s a bad respiratory bacterial infection going 'round here. First it starts with a sore throat, then it progresses to losing your voice and a persistant, dry cough. Get on antibiotics stat. I already got that in the late summer. So far I’ve gotten my flu shot and treating my family to 1000 mg of Vitamic C a day and a steady diet of Tropicana’s Immunity Defense OJ whenever they start to feel droopy. So far, so good.
I have something that works very well for me (YMMV) is a concoction of some herbs and pungent stuff ( garlic & onions) that has steeped in apple cider vineager for quite some time. If I feel something coming on ( as we’ve had a variety of epidemics here at Chateau Ujest lately) I take a shot glass of this stuff, mix with luke warm water and drink.
I haven’t been sick in over two years since I’ve started this. I’m also a complete germophobe when illness starts and go to Defcon 5 status with the Lysol on a Two Times A Day Scrub Down All Flat Surfaces kinda frenzy. woooooooooooooooooooo!I really need to get a HazMat suit.
I also have a cough and cold elixir made from a blend of Jagermeister*, licorice root and some other stuff that I cannot recall at the moment. It beats the snot out of Nyquil, hands down. If you ever have a really bad cough and regular cough drops don’t do dick anymore, find the Altoid’s Licorice tins and buy it. Natural licorice (not the red or black candy) is a natural cough suppressant. These things are a bit spicey, so let them dissolve on your tongue. Works fantabulous. I would never lie to you.
I needed something with at least 70 proof alchohol in it and Jaeger was all we had on hand. Jaeger and Nyquil are nearly interchangeable, in my mind.
I got the recipie from a Rosemary Gladstar book. It’s a bit Mother Earth Granola stuff and pretty off the map for 99.99 of you dopers out there, but I swear it works well for me.
Please, have fun flaming me.
I thought I had it licked on Saturday so I went to a house party, big mistake. A couple of drinks and I felt like I had drank hundreds and had to duck out to crawl home (almost literally). So today when I woke up the whole thing is back with a vengeance, it wouldn’t be so bad but my driving test is on Tuesday so I need to get well fast!
I try to combat it with copious amounts of coffee.