Ebola

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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    rgambs said:

    It's gonna wipe us out, just like the H1N1 bird flu and the swine flu did. 8-|

    Hurry and get some Tami flu!! Stockpile it.
  • kce8
    kce8 Posts: 1,636
    Ok, I got it...
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Good job Kce8.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    I read that "for every 22 adult people on oseltamivir one experienced vomiting". Maybe not for me- I hate puking! :))

    Whenever I feel a bug coming on I take 50,000 IU's of vitamin D-3 twice a day for 3 or 4 day along with echinacea and zinc supplements plus my usual regimen of vitamins and supplements. This bug I've had the last three day must be a tough one because I haven't gotten much done in that time and it's given me with massively big-time fatigue. But it didn't totally knock me down and the last few virus going around before this I was able to knock out with the above mentioned regimen so I'm fairly sure it works. But ahh, no, I'm not going volunteer to try it out on Ebola. :))
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Ugh, puking - hate it too. Fucks with my back, which 1) has been doing the ache/spasm thing since last evening, and 2) makes me realize even with that, I don't have it all that bad.

    Hope you feel better soon, B!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Ugh, bake pain- that sucks too! Hope you feel better soon too, Hedo.

    (Thanks either rr or rgambs- I think one of you came up with that cool nick name for Hedonist aka H. and now aka Hedo! :-)
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    brianlux said:

    Ugh, bake pain- that sucks too! Hope you feel better soon too, Hedo.

    (Thanks either rr or rgambs- I think one of you came up with that cool nick name for Hedonist aka H. and now aka Hedo! :-)

    All of ya need some homemade chicken soup,maybe a Matzo ball or two and lots of fluids and Ice for Hedo.feel better guys.
  • Shawshank
    Shawshank Posts: 1,018
    You should also be taking vitamin C...and lots of it. Keep ramping up your dose until it starts to give you the shits. No lie. Then back off just a little. I take around 6,000mg a day and I'm going to boost it up a bit since I'm about to fly to Chicago. Ugh.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Gah! Been relying on the green vs Tylenol and Advil but have to go that route too this evening. I wish matzo-ball soup did more than comfort (though I'll take it!).

    Shawshank, doesn't the excess of vitamin C - as with B - get flushed out once initially absorbed? I do swear by OJ though. Like a panacea sometimes.
  • Shawshank
    Shawshank Posts: 1,018
    Yes, you can't OD on vitamin c like you can others. Peoples bodies tolerate different levels, but in cold season it's best to just max out on it...however much you can handle. Maybe start off at 1000mg a day and work your way up slowly. I know people who take 10,000+mg every day. You can't go wrong with C.

  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Don't forget zinc!!
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Shawshank said:

    Yes, you can't OD on vitamin c like you can others. Peoples bodies tolerate different levels, but in cold season it's best to just max out on it...however much you can handle. Maybe start off at 1000mg a day and work your way up slowly. I know people who take 10,000+mg every day. You can't go wrong with C.



    I do 2000mg in the morning and before bed if I think I might get sick...it seems to work, but I have a strong immune system that regularly beats colds that drop others to their knees, so its hard to tell. I am lucky!
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,629
    So the 1st american dies today from the virus i hope no one else has to die from this virus ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    josevolution said:

    So the 1st american dies today from the virus i hope no one else has to die from this virus ...

    Was he American? Or was it the guy from Africa that died?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Last-12-Exit said:

    josevolution said:

    So the 1st american dies today from the virus i hope no one else has to die from this virus ...

    Was he American? Or was it the guy from Africa that died?
    Lived in Liberia, brought to the US.
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Before the sky falls and all,how many people contracted "other" ailments and infections abroad and brought them here on a daily basis.I bet the number is staggering,but encephalitis,yellow Fever,etc Dosent get the pub from the news.I bet dozens of people have died this week in the USA after being infected with something abroad.Anyone got some numbers to help me with this?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited October 2014
    rgambs, nicely done mr. vit c.

    i know a commercial fisherman (dead now) but he was never sick & he worked in all the eliments every single day. up before the sun & hard as nails. he swore by vit. c. the man barelly wore clothes in the worst weather, just his boots, jeans, t-shirt & a flannel & i am certain he never wore those slickers fishermen sport around in.
    like his son, these two have the strongest & biggest hands/fingers i've ever saw. physically dragging up nets for the last 50-60 yrs

    he eventually died of cancer althroughout his body
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    The planet as well as humanity could use an affective plague to knock out 60-70% of human population.

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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    callen said:

    The planet as well as humanity could use an affective plague to knock out 60-70% of human population.

    :)) As long as I'm in the surviving group...



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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    callen said:

    The planet as well as humanity could use an affective plague to knock out 60-70% of human population.

    From a purely objective view point, this is absolutely true in terms of giving the planet a chance to restore a much better ecological balance. Or we could voluntarily stop reproducing in such great numbers but, as Dave Foreman pointed out in the documentary "Wilderness", that notion seems to have become politically incorrect. Too bad because if we don't do it, Mother Nature will.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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