Caught the flu FFS!

[Thorwyn]

Well.. .as the title says...
Didn´t feel too well over the day, left work early... now I´ve got a fucking fever.

I mean.. like.. FEVER when it´s almost 30 degrees Celsius outside! And I`m sitting here, shivering like a Hula Girl in Poland!
I promptly swallowed one of my lil scret weapons, it´s a medicine called "Contac Forte", basically a sledgehammer against the flu... but even that didn´t save me it seems.

I don´t mind having a head like a hippopotamus. And I don´t care about coughing or an aching heels. But I can´t stand fever.

Any express recommendations on how to get rid of this shi1t?

 

[Nate]

Hope you didn't eat any Cadburys chocolate aswell, that would be nasty

I'd recommend resting up, chicken soup and some lemsip!

 

[Ezteq]

oooh sorry bout that hun hope you get well soon, send someone out to get you a couple of tubes of soluble vitimin c tablets and drink them throughout the day keep you hydrated and because yur ill you really need to womp up the vit c intake (you cant OD on the stuff because your body cant retain it) so have like one every couple of hours and just drink loads of water too

/hugs

 

[Thorwyn]

Thanks! Don´t have any vitamine C in my house, but loads of water, so I`m gonna try the "water-torture light". One side effect of this Contac stuff is that it´s really blowing me out of my chair, so I`m currently stoned like this HA HA HA rastafari. Heading off to bed now, nn

 

[- English -]

try drinking a litre every hour

 

[old.Tohtori]

Well you can lawys feel good 'cause theres worse thigns to cahtach then th flu!

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

try drinking a litre every hour

That's a bit overkill...
Too much water drains your body of minerals and vitamins, and can cause shock, or even coma. A liter of water per hour likely won't get you in that state that fast, but keep it up for a day, and you're getting serious problems.

Water intoxication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Jeremiah]

I caught the flu too, with a serious fever that left me hallucinating - which was fun. Luckily it left me on Thursday, but now I have a cold instead - just before I go to Frenzy, a Christian music festival... now I cant sing along with the songs!!

 

[tris-]

That's a bit overkill...
Too much water drains your body of minerals and vitamins, and can cause shock, or even coma. A liter of water per hour likely won't get you in that state that fast, but keep it up for a day, and you're getting serious problems.

Water intoxication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

im unsure how applicable this is to be honest. sometimes i drink about 10 pints of water a day and feel totally fine. usually i am dehydrated mind, and out of those 10 pints i probably piss about 3 times. but still, there must be some flexibility in it.

 

[Nate]

Well he did say a litre not a pint, a litres quite a bit bigger and I'd say your up for more then 10 hours a day(unless your a lazy bastard!!! or a cat). Your no where near the volume of water English said to take.

 

[Dudley52]

Get some oranges if you can, have about 2 or 3 a day. They always help me when I'm ill

especially juicy ones!

 

[tris-]

Well he did say a litre not a pint, a litres quite a bit bigger and I'd say your up for more then 10 hours a day(unless your a lazy bastard!!! or a cat). Your no where near the volume of water English said to take.

i didnt actually read anything anyone typed, as usual.

 

[Overdriven]

Galon 1/2 a day of water 4tw! Get better soon

 

[Huntingtons]

the flu is a virus and for that virus there's no cure :/

That's a bit overkill...
Too much water drains your body of minerals and vitamins, and can cause shock, or even coma. A liter of water per hour likely won't get you in that state that fast, but keep it up for a day, and you're getting serious problems.

Water intoxication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

well, sicne you're ill you swet alot more (normally you swet half a litre a hour and i guess when being ill it raises a fair bit)

 

[old.Tohtori]

There's an old saying, starve the cold, feed the fever.

Works like a charm as well.

If you have a bug, you should only drink when thirsty(a touch more won't hurt) and keep away from all food. This will starve the lil buggers in your system.

Now when the fever kicks in, you should eat all sorts of protein and fat to give your body the ammunition.

And that's about it.

Fever medicine and remedies are the WORST thing a human can do.

 

[Zenith]

Well somethings wrong with your body, why not just let it be and let your body heal?

 

[Huntingtons]

Well somethings wrong with your body, why not just let it be and let your body heal?

say that to an aids patien -.-

 

[Zenith]

No I wouldnt, but I tend to say it to ppl who get flus and colds, where all you need to do is to rest and its done with

 

[Huntingtons]

yeah well colds there are no cure for, and im not certain that there is one for a flu, but im suspecting it since you can cure a variation of bird flu