Surviving The Flu Season

[gaggle64]

Yep, it's the flu season alright, with folks dropping left and right with colds and coughs, only for them to lurch back to their feet as snot-spewing zombies with Lemsip for blood.

The question is, how do you survive the flu?

Personally I like to snuggle with a duvet and a hot honey tea (milk, hot water and honey - good for the soul) and ride it out on the sofa in a vaguely hallucinogenic stupor. TV always has some really weird movies on when I fall ill, it's like some kind of conspiracy.

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sleep
sleep
lemsips
lots of chocolate (yum)
and why.. on the week i have the flu is diagnosis murder NOT on bb1?
im disgusted

oh and hot water bottles and cups of tea and hugs... :D

[Wesley]

By doing everything normal, just sweating it out and looking like shit.

[Slaggis]

Lots of sleep helps, so does doing bugger all.

Drink Lemsipy stuff too, that always helps me (as it is now), I hate getting the flu!

[Vicar]

here is a pro tip from a guy who has´t been sick for almost 2 years
If you feel bad
1. Drink milk, hot water, honey and white garlic (it´s almost the same thin you said)
2. take a long hot shower
3. go early to sleep
4. play video games : peace:

[rokhed00]

Got a flu jab a couple of months ago.

[Cube]

I just put up with it.

[Letty]

last time I had a proper cold (christmas of 2006), I sat in my duvet on the sofa and watched jordan play twilight princess, whilst I took paracetalol and made snot bubbles.

Make sure to blow your nose a lot! It clears your sinuses, making you feel less groggy.

[Sheikah]

I would just like to point out, there is no way to prevent flu, apart from obviously not going outside or coming into contact with people :p

So those offering homemade remedies are wasting your time. ;P

[Eenuh]

I get colds a lot, but I don't remember when I've had the flu apart from maybe as a kid. Does it pretty much always involve having a fever?
*hasn't had a fever in years, doesn't even remember when she last had one*

But I guess sleeping is the best method to get rid of colds and the like.

[rokhed00]

I would just like to point out, there is no way to prevent flu, apart from obviously not going outside or coming into contact with people :p

So those offering homemade remedies are wasting your time. ;P

Immunization works wonders.

[Sheikah]

Immunization works wonders.

The influenza virus is so rapidly evolving that jabs probably do little, which is why they're only usually recommended to old people where lessening the risk a fraction may help a tiny bit.

[Gizmo]

Take a paracetamol and suck it up.

[Stefkov]

Don't remember the last time I got a cold/flu. I always have a blocked nose though.
When I did have a cold I just rubbed Vicks on my chest.

[rokhed00]

The influenza virus is so rapidly evolving that jabs probably do little, which is why they're only usually recommended to old people where lessening the risk a fraction may help a tiny bit.

That's why I haven't got flu.

[AshMat]

I let it hit me, take lemsips.

[Gizmo]

That's why I haven't got flu.

Neither do I, but I didn't get a vaccine :heh:

[Raining_again]

My mother gets the vaccine every year and she says it vastly improves even colds that she would get now.

I've got a low immunity with meds and whatnot so i'm dreading people in work being sick =(

[martinist]

my mum got sick quite recently and the rest of my family had it except for me. Although yesterday i started getting bad headaches and an annoying cough so i think i'll be in for it in the next couple of days.

[Sheikah]

That's why I haven't got flu.

Like the other guy said, neither have I. Put that down to luck and a good immune system.

[The fish]

Like the other guy said, neither have I. Put that down to luck and a good immune system.

Actually, you want a bad immune system for flu. What kills you is your immune systems reaction. That's why a flu epidemic is so bad - the healthy are killed, while the elderly, the ill, and the kids survive.
There is, of course, a lower limit, but flu is famous for killing otherwise healthy people primarily.

[Raining_again]

Actually, you want a bad immune system for flu. What kills you is your immune systems reaction. That's why a flu epidemic is so bad - the healthy are killed, while the elderly, the ill, and the kids survive.
There is, of course, a lower limit, but flu is famous for killing otherwise healthy people primarily.

Why does the nhs spend fortunes for the elderly people that need the flu vacc then?

The nhs does nothing unless its required

I get offered the flu vacc free due to working in the health service =)

[The fish]

Why does the nhs spend fortunes for the elderly people that need the flu vacc then?

Because they are often below that lower limit of immune capability. They'll die from the virus itself. Most die from their immune system's actions.

[EEVILMURRAY]

My immune system seems to be working fine at the moment, the epilepsy is taking up most of the illness memory on me.

[Sheikah]

Actually, you want a bad immune system for flu. What kills you is your immune systems reaction. That's why a flu epidemic is so bad - the healthy are killed, while the elderly, the ill, and the kids survive.
There is, of course, a lower limit, but flu is famous for killing otherwise healthy people primarily.

lol, what a load of BS. Influenza symptoms kill old people and the immune-compromised, not young healthy people. That's why they give the flu jab to older people.

[AshMat]

So you're telling me i have a bad immune system, therefore i survive flu?
The vaccine itself is made the same as any other, not to make your immune system worse

[Sheikah]

I don't know what illness kills healthy people over unhealthy people more, sounds contrived. :p

[Raining_again]

Not saying this source is totally 100% but any "issues" with the flu i've ever encountered in "healthy adults" is a reaction to the flu vaccine and not the flu itself. Which is incredibly rare, considering they do thousands without a single problem.

[The fish]

I don't know what illness kills healthy people over unhealthy people more, sounds contrived. :p

My bad, I was talking about Spanish flu, I got it muddled up with regular old Influenza.
Spanish flu does kill healthy people more than old. See the 1918 flu pandemic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu).

[Sheikah]

My bad, I was talking about Spanish flu, I got it muddled up with regular old Influenza.
Spanish flu does kill healthy people more than old. See the 1918 flu pandemic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/W_curve.png/300px-W_curve.png

Well you are a little right, there's a peak in the middle. But OAPs seemed to still be more vulnerable, and they're the people who would get the flu jab. Also small babies have a bad immune system, and they were more at risk too. So it would still seem bad immune system = get the flu. There's probably little difference in immune system throughout reasonable age children and older adults, so possibly other factors are at play.

[MoogleViper]

People need to grow some balls. I get sick of people complaining about colds. Try not being able to breathe through your nose full stop.

[gaggle64]

Although yesterday i started getting bad headaches and an annoying cough so i think i'll be in for it in the next couple of days.

For some reason I first read that as "yesterday I started getting bad moustaches." :p

[Platty]

I kept getting ill, getting better then 2 weeks later getting ill again. I blame it on horrible people on the trains not using their hands when coughing and sneezing! show some manners people! I also blame the air con at work circulating all those germs around.

However I hardly take a sick day off at work cos I hate doing that, I feel worse if I lay in bed all day. I just soldier on like a hero!

Anyway the Doctor recommended me taking vitaman C tablets and also having a course of Echinacea which im doing. This should build up my immune system and hopefully stop me catching bugs. So far so good, touch wood.

[redrum217uk]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/W_curve.png/300px-W_curve.png

Well you are a little right, there's a peak in the middle. But OAPs seemed to still be more vulnerable, and they're the people who would get the flu jab. Also small babies have a bad immune system, and they were more at risk too. So it would still seem bad immune system = get the flu. There's probably little difference in immune system throughout reasonable age children and older adults, so possibly other factors are at play.


Same with "bird flu" if it did ever mutate to infect humans it would work in this way, killing the fittest, while the weak survive!

I get colds alot, well I'll wake up one day feeling a little snotty and rough but the next day I'm fine!

I have a cold right now but had it a few days, i'm feeling sorry for myself I really am a typical man cold kinda guy!

I did have flu 2 years ago with a severe chest infaction that was awful it got so bad i actually spent about 3 days crying. I went totaly nuts the doc just said that was due to the infection! Strange how it effects your mind to. I had it for about 3 weeks before going to the doc and him telling me off for not coming sooner as my chest was so bad, I was put on antibiotics to get rid of it. I was always told "you don't go to the doc's for cold/flu you just ride it out" I think when you start coughing up blood its time to get yourself to a doc though!

Oh and that was the one and only year I actually had the flu jab!

[fex]

When I get the flu, I reduce the amount of dairy I consume.

Dairy = Bad

Dairy products, in general, cause the human body to produce mucus. When you have a cold, the human body also produces more mucus than normal. It is much better to stick to clear fluids when you have a cold or flu so as to avoid too much mucus.
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my flu is getting worse
im at the weepy stage where my eyes wont stop watering

[fex]

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Ewwww I hate the flu! Nasty!
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