Our swine flu experience

[Barefoot]

Youngest son and oldest daughter both had symptoms of swine flu a few days ago. I just gave ferrum phos TS every few hours and the elderberry tincture.
Both better in a day and half.
Getting them to drink some cayenne pepper drinks relieved the headaches as i have found this to cure hangovers so figured it would do something for the feverish headaches and give the elderberry a boost too.
All in all nothing to worry about and very short lasting and consider cayenne pepper as an alternative pain killer that actually works.


Refused to call the pandemonium help line for some illusionary re-assurance from an 18 year old between real jobs LOL.

[cartersmom]

glad it was mild....sounds totally manageable :)

[justine]

Getting them to drink some cayenne pepper drinks

How do you make that please Barefoot?

Justine

[Barefoot]

So never needed the garlic rocket fuel after all but its a great general all rounder too i guess so worth keeping anyhow.
you just go by what you feel is right at the time i suppose.
Glad i made the elderberry tincture though.

Forgot to add gave one tab of 5000 AU vit D3 too per day.

I find half to 2/3 of a teaspoon of cayenne with 1/4 ginger (don't forget the ginger)cures my hangovers in a half pint of water so halved that amount for YS which he took over 2 drinks at least twice a day. O/D who is older and much larger had 3/4 my amount.
its not all that hot really.
If you struggle to drink things like this take a deep breath swig it down fairly fast, you won't even taste it, then the kick hits but you've already drunk it so too late. LOL or take it over 2 drinks.
I find kids struggle if they sip it but my kids like spicy food.
The cayenne/ginger drink helped with the h/aches but did not do much for the aches, arnica cream or tincture in water helps a lot with that, which i forgot about at the time.

[Lexie]

We got it too. My husband works in a small office--probably no more than 15 people--and it's basically being passed around now. My husband got it from his supervisor and symptoms appeared on Friday. The babe and I started having symptoms on Saturday, at least a couple hours after waking. She had a fever and runny nose. I had a sore throat and runny nose. I was megadosing with sodium ascorbate and letting her get it through my milk, but the first night, her fever was rising and her runny nose was no better while mine was dried up. So I started giving her her own doses and the fever lowered to a reasonable level and her runny nose dried up too.

Her low-grade fever continued until the second morning at about 3AM. She hasn't had symptoms since, so she was probably sick for 42 hours. I still have a bit of a runny nose, but we're trying to conserve vitamin C at this point as my husband is still pretty sick.

He's almost constantly coughing, has diarrhea, and a runny nose. He was hit by a car on Saturday, and they told him to expect diarrhea from that too, so it's all kind of a mess for him. (Nothing was broken, but he was bruised a good bit.) I want to find his threshold of vitamin C, but with him having a diarrhea already...it's kind of hard to figure it out. I'm at least trying to make sure he has enough to keep the cough away. But I can't leave it up to him or he takes too little or none at all and then ends up feeling even worse. He's had it for 5 days now, so I'm hoping he'll be better soon. But he always takes forever to get well.

At least you can see that for those of us who take care of ourselves and eat a healthy diet, this flu amounts to nothing more than a slight bother. I wasn't even tired at all. Neither was my babe.