Good luck, and take care. I hope things work out for your sister, she's obviously in an "at risk" profession and then you are too by default when she gets ill, do everything you can to stay healthy and if you sneeze twice go to the doctor!

 

this might not be realted but swine flu always reminds me of the videos i saw from china.... some disease hit china a few years ago and i remember seeing teh chinese army throwing body bags in a huge fire in the middle of a complex surrounded by armed guards scary thats where this could go good luck

 

bird flu? or avian ??? whatever it's called. Its still around, and at this point I suspect it will be ALWAYS still around until it either morphs and kills every bird, or every human, and either way we wont have to worry about it anymore

 

Man that sucks, but it being as wide spread as it is and we here being from all over the world I guess it was unavoidable for a few of us to get it.
I hope you dodge it and she gets better Soon.
I give you and yours my best brother.

 

The key to getting rid fo the flu

quickly, in my experience,

1) Take baths with antiviral herbs. Anything that says antiviral in a google search throw into a bathtub. Dechlorinate your bath water. Your skin detoxifying chlorine is not a burden it needs right now. In fact you should oxygenate your bath water and take lots of baths.

Your skin is the largest organ in your body. its also the best way to flush your system.

2) liquid vitamins

3) spicy soups, like chicken with garlic, blackpepper, habanero, ginger

4) licorice tea

5) Hydrogen peroxide therapy.

6) Vitamin C and antioxidants!! These help your body use oxygen efficiently.

Viruses are anaerobic. Thats why they attack the lungs. So you need to get more blood to the bloodstream and fast. Otherwise this can take forever to get rid of. http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/cancer-and-oxygen.htm

Flu isnt cancer but nearly all viruses share common traits, anaerobic environs being one of them. Thats why hyperbaric chambers work so well.

Your whole family needs to be doign the same thing. Thats what my family does. Life with the flue is nearly always miserable regardless of what you do... you can however, shorten the time you are miserable.

Keep up her spirits. Cartoons and movies where the good guys win consistently throughout the whole film do wonders for the subconscious. What you subconscious believes to be true, IS true.


Just a few thoughts that have worked for my family for years. Hope you can use this.

BladeGuru


PS: When last I had the flu, which was a long time ago, Ginseng tea and gingko tea mixed also worked wonders for me. Go easy on the ginseng as it can make your heart beat a bit faster than normal. But it gives people some willpower.

PPS: Im also a big fan of Dr. Hulda Regehr Clarks 'zapper protocol' Follow it and any contraindications and with any luck she will be in good health soon, methinks.

PPPS: Dont go to walmart or large convenience stores where the unwashed go... bad hygiene abounds. Dont touch your face.

 

Well, good luck Yorkshire Boy.

Dunno about all these herbs and things, last time I had the flu every time I needed to cough I had a slug of whisky, 3 days later and I'm feeling gooood with no flu and a few empty bottles.
Man that was an interesting few days.

 

Must be an NZ thing... I've often had the same results drinking bourbon :

 

Sending my best wishes that you are able to dodge the virus and wishing your sister a speedy recovery.

 

Hope all your way are ok, Prayers sent.

 

On the plus side Swine Flu generally is much less dangerous than regular flu. Regular Flu kills 30,000 people a year globally - so far swine flu has killed 300.

The reason there is such hype about it is that it is very infectious and were it to mutate to something more dangerous it could pose a real problem.

As it stands it might even be considered a good thing to catch it right now while it is still fairly "tame", thereby offering immunity to any later and more dangerous versions.

 

You mean 300 in the US...1000 worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

 

I hope you both will be OK. Having asthma really doesn't help her. But if you pull through "rather easily" you'll be spared at the phase 2 of the virus.

Take care.

 

Most survive the swine flu and then they have built up ammunities. Stay as healthy as possible and you will come out the better for it.

My prayers are with all of you.

 

She will be fine! Just do everything you would do for a normal flu. You and her hubby need to get yourselves ready for it to. GOOD LUCK!

 

I hope that your family will all be fine and well soon! Please let us know when she feels better.

 

And i wish your sister a speedy recovery yorkshire.

 

I hope your sister get well very quickly, John. God bless.

 

Has she not been tested? Just a diagnosis over the phone right?

 

What does the test test? Antibodies?

 

CDC has developed a PCR diagnostic test kit to detect this novel H1N1 virus and has now distributed test kits to all states in the U.S. and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

 

Thanks for the good wishes, my sister is up and about now and doing fine.

Here's my reply to a message I got from smudge:

Hi (name deleted), sorry for the delay.

My sister said she didn't feel well for about a week before getting ill (she came down properly on Tuesday). She said she had headaches and a hot throat leading up to that point. On Tuesday she was vomiting, having bad guts and had a temp around 40. Her cough also became much worse. She called the NHS and gave her symptoms and they said she'd got swine flu. She'd also been in contact with people with swine flu at a hospital.

Wednesday morning (5am) and she was still having the occasinal vomit but her cough was giving her concern, she's asmatic and she was getting in a panic about not being able to breathe. An ambulance was called and at 6.20am they arrived. By this time her breathing had sorted itself out because she'd taken puff after puff on her inhaler.

The ambulance men said this was there 4th call out in a couple of days. She didn't go with them to hospital. Interestingly they didn't go in the house but talked to her through the window!

On Thursday she had an appetite but had a temp at times of 38, she said her baseline temp is always 36.3

On Friday she was up and about but still had a cough.

On Wednesday I started to get a hot throat. Each day it has got a little worse and I have a small cough now and dry stuffy nose. My appetite is unaffected : It's nothing to write home about but I wonder if it will get worse. I'll let you know...

Perhaps it starts off small, hot throat cough, and if your body can't fight it then goes full blown? Or maybe there are different strengths of it going around?


Each day my cold has progressed a little further, I'd have what I'd describe as a "bad cold" now, typical winter thing we all get. My nose is fully blocked, I get the chills from time to time and last night I woke up a few times feeling like I couldn't breathe properly.

I'll keep you posted.
:thumb:

 

My sister said she didn't feel well for about a week before getting ill (she came down properly on Tuesday). She said she had headaches and a hot throat leading up to that point. On Tuesday she was vomiting, having bad guts and had a temp around 40. Her cough also became much worse. She called the NHS and gave her symptoms and they said she'd got swine flu.

I imagine that NHS is the equivalent of Nurse Health Line in North America?

My question is this: How the heck can they declare with such certainty, from an over the phone consultation, based on incredibly common symptoms, that she has the swine flu?

It seems almost as if health workers everywhere have received instructions to just declare everything to be the swine flu so that people can be scared into complying with vaccination.

Not to be insensitive to your suffering, but that over the phone diagnosis seems like a load of BS to me.

Soon it will be like :

"...Nurse, I was working on my roof and I fell off the ladder. My left ankle and my right wrist hurt a bit and I feel a little woozy."

"Well, did you have a bowel moment today?"

Uh...yes. Yes I did!"

Yeah...it's the swine flu!"

 

Oh dear, that's not good news. How is the little niece, or is she another sibling's child?

Fingers crossed. Break a leg. (Don't want to jinx you....)

 

Thanks for asking, my neice lives in Australia with my brother.

 

Whew! Glad to hear it.
ikj (that's me crossing fingers for you! )

 

I just read your news, YorkieBoy. I'm so sorry to hear that this has come your way. Tell your sister that we're praying for her and that we hope she recovers soon.

Keep yourself as healthy as you can; we'd miss your face around these parts. Oh, By the way, fish can't get the swine flu so no worries there. :

 

Get well soon John.

 

Don't be vain, eat raw garlic when you are sick. It helps just about anything and raw is better.

 

I hope everyone is ok YB

 

Get well soon.

 

Hoping you and your sis get better soon.