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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: StSanta on February 19, 2001, 03:11:00 PM
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Ugh. One week of vacation, and I'm down with a temperature of 40.2C.
Am wondering if anyone has any untraditional ways of dealing with fever, other than the normal ones (such as codeine based painkillers, which I have none of)?
Man, I hate being sick. Happens once or twice a year, and right now, I am quite convinced that I am on the verge of death.
I am playing chess with the grim reaper.
What conforts me is that only the good die young, so I should be in the clear (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif).
So, postum if ya gottum. Am prepared to try most non too intrusive things (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif).
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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"All your base/are belong to us"
http://www.thefever.com/AYB2.swf
Keep up the momentum!
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Get some orange brandy and mix 1 shot with hot tea and honey, lemon rind. Take a mild bath, drink the hot tea afterward, go to bed with extra blankets on, and a BIG glass of water beside the bed..as you wake up during the night due to sweating under the covers, take a big gulp of water and go back to sweating under the covers.
Works for me.
Also, most fevers peak in the afternoon for some reason.
Did you know 56% of folks that come in contact with a virus get sick while on vacation or just after?
Your body acclimates to 'bio rythmes' of usual activity,ie. you get up the same time of day, eat pretty much on schedule, crap on schedule, during your normal work week...then, when you go on vacation, you screw your bio-rythmes up,you get up later, you do more, you eat different..so, what you are doing is lowering your bodies resistence to viruses. Thus, you get sick on, or just after vacations if you come in contact with viruses.
(Married a nurse (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif))
[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 02-19-2001).]
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It's that time of year, Santa. The weekend before last I went to see some friends in Leeds and we visited some student types and went out clubbing.
I caught something bad. I always get flu at this time of year - mixing with people in pubs/bars etc does it, I think.
Just getting over it now, and fortunately, it was non-venereal. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I usually just stay in bed and rest. I don't think there is a cure, you just have to relieve the symptoms. Drink lots of water and take pain-killers.
Get well soon!
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Take a real hot bath, then run outside nekkid and jump in a snow-bank (if available, I'm in Nebraska don't ya know), then run back into the bath. If you don't die within the hour your body will be too confused to keep up the fever. Otherwise refer to Rip's post.
SwampRat
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LOL Swamprat
Thanks dowding and ripsnort, will try it out. back to hugging the sheets for me <S!>
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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"All your base/are belong to us"
http://www.thefever.com/AYB2.swf
Keep up the momentum!
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Hehe, and to think that I just take Advil. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Get some hot peppers and eat a bunch. In an hour you will be so occupied with what's happening at the bottom end you wont even notice the fever. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Really I like Ripsnort's and a HOT bath. One of those baths that takes you 5 minutes to set down into while you acclimatize to it. By some zinc (30mg) and colloidal minerals. Take one zinc/day and the minerals at 1oz/100lb of body weight for the rest of your life. I haven't had a cold, flu, or anything in a year since I started. You really want to help yourself get the minerals and vitamins that come in the same liquid/colloidal mix in a bottle. Take them at 1oz/100lbs of body weight. Then take a teaspoon of gelatin everyday and it will help any joint and bone type problems you have. It's worked for me. The mineral vitamin mix tastes like hell. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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The one I've heard works well (haven't tried it myself for fear of death) is similar to Rip's, but differs thusly...
Eat a large raw Spanish Onion, wash it down with
2/5ths of JackDaniels.
Make that bath as HOT as you can stand it, bathroom door closed to keep the steam in.
Repeat as necessary.
Best of luck to you Bro, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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Drink a fifth of Bourbon. That night, you will forget all about your fever, and the next day the fever will be the least of your worries. And I think that if your blood alcohol level gets high enough it kills all the critters in your bloodstream (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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You should know better Santa... the cure is not far, it's found in Finland and is called "FPO" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Sex works for me, but it's been so rare lately that it'd work on ANYTHING (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky
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This won't cure the common cold or viral infections - but I'll guarantee it will shorten the severity and duration of it.
Mix 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and 1-2 tablespoons of honey <to taste> in a 8-12 oz glass fill with water and stir well.
Drink this throughout the day/night for the duration of the illness. Honey has natural antibacterial properties and the apple cider vinegar will restore and keep your bodys PH on the acidic side of the scale.
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Raising your body temperature, while you already have a fever, could be very dangerous. I suggest cold baths instead of warm or hot ones. If your body temperature gets to high the protiens in your brain will denature and that's a bad thing. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Good point thrawn... I meant to say that my suggestion is for a bad headcold.
Never mind. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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My suggestion is to read the boards for comedic relief only (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
The majority of suggestions wont help ya one bit! LOL!
If your fever persists for more than 2 days, see a doctor. If its over 104-105, get yer bellybutton into an Emergency room cause thats very dangerous.
You should take either aspirin or acetaminophen only. Ibuprofin does no good for reducing fever tho it will alleviate your aches. Rest and fluids are a necessity.
You might also want to try a form of zinc called zinc gluconate along with Vitamins C & E. These in tandem have been shown to reduce the length of symptoms and to boost the immune system.
Hope ya feel better (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
-Ding
[This message has been edited by Dingy (edited 02-19-2001).]
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Christ! by the time your done reading this thread you'll be so drunk you wont notice the fever.
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Stop sitting on the joystick! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Don't know if I can help with the fever.. but I can offer some advice...
When you have that high of a fever.. don't pee standing up.
AKDejaVu
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Chicken noodle soup
a good book
cleanex ( or bed pan depending on sevaraty)
an electric blanket
it might not get you will but you will be confortable enough to almost put it out of your mind. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
ROFLOL!!
notice that the post of recomendations from DINGY is post number 666
be wary
[This message has been edited by TheWobble (edited 02-20-2001).]
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An old Russian remedy from colds (I guess not much help if it's viral) - lots of hot tea with raspberry jam and lots of blankets afterwards. You sweat like a pig but wake up a new man with no cold (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
I used to lie flat on my back every Xmas catching colds/flus/whatevers. 6 years ago I started taking multi-vitamins - thanks Mom! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) - not even a sniff since. Usually start in mid October and keep munching them until April - May...
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6 years ago I started taking multi-vitamins
Ya i took those for a while, made my piss look like anti-freeze, a quite disconcerning thing to see while groggy at 7am. better than being sick..i guess.
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Multi-vitamins, yech. Always gave me a real nasty case of the toejams. The rumble of thunder from the bathroom caused my room mate some concern. Although when I threatened to light a smoke in there he started screaming. Kept saying I'd blow the door off the hinges. I didn't care, I was having a nic-fit.
Follow Rip's advice, works wonders for me. If things get too bad see a Doc about Tylenol 3 and get ready for pain. That stuff is guaranteed to kill or cure. I had my wisdom teeth out a few years ago (pain? nope). For some reason I kept getting severe jaw pain in the joint. According to the Doc I saw there was a small bone fragment in there. He said give it a few days and if it's doesn't fall out on it's own come back. It didn't fall out, so I went back. They had to chisel it out.
PAIN!!!!! Oohhhh lordy this thing hurt. Tylenol 3 helped, but made me so nauseated I couldn't get up without blowing chunks. My Doc actually told me "It's guaranteed to kill or cure". Damn, he wasn't kidding.
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Originally posted by Thrawn:
Raising your body temperature, while you already have a fever, could be very dangerous. I suggest cold baths instead of warm or hot ones. If your body temperature gets to high the protiens in your brain will denature and that's a bad thing. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Negetive. Only a sustained temperature of 103 or more over 48 hours can be dangerous. Mothers and fathers know this, since doctors explain the myths about temperatures.
If you do have a sustained temperature as an adult of more than 103 for 24 hours, then you should go to a doctor, because its most likely something other than a virus that is causing your temperture to sustain.
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I have to agree somewhat with Rip.
When I start to have a fever I drink a 6 pack and it helps.
My wife thinks I'm nuts but it works for me.
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Originally posted by Mighty1:
I have to agree somewhat with Rip.
When I start to have a fever I drink a 6 pack and it helps.
My wife thinks I'm nuts but it works for me.
The reason it helps is because beer makes your bodies PH acidic. <normal>
Bacteria cannot thrive in an acidic PH, the only part of the human body that is not acidic is blood which is only slightly alkaline.
I have a book written by an MD who researched folk remedys, theres a LOT of truth in "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Originally posted by jihad:
Bacteria cannot thrive in an acidic PH, the only part of the human body that is not acidic is blood which is only slightly alkaline.
But colds are viral, bacterial infections can be a RESULT of a viral infection, not the cause of a cold.
Edit: THat is why a doctor will ask you the color of the 'discharge' in a cough or runny nose, 'Is it clear or does it have color?'...this allows him to properly administer the right medications, if clear, theres not a dang thing he can do about it, since no virus has ever been cured by mankind, if its yellow or green, it means a bacterial infection has set in, and they can give you amoxicillian or something stronger to prevent the bacterial infection from getting worse, but your cold has to run its due course since there is NO cure for viral infections known to date.
I have a book written by an MD who researched folk remedys, theres a LOT of truth in "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".
Thats a fact, but it has more to do with a balanced diet, the healthier you are, the less susceptible you will be when encountering viruses since your bodies naturally defenses are at their strongest.(I.E. it uses as part of its defense the high acidic type protein to fend off viruses it has previously encountered in the past, thus catching the same cold is unlikely)
But if you smoke, or eat an unbalanced diet, you greatly increase your chances of catching a cold due to your resisitence being susceptible, so by eating an apple a day, then smoking,or, by ONLY eating apples.. you've just nullified any chance of gaining from the 'apple a day'.
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[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 02-20-2001).]