.... plus stay away from people who have the flu ... I swear some folks seem to like coughing and spewing viruses
wherever they can .... they should at least partly quarantine themselves.
We dont catch the flu from any other source.
We need more enlightenment on HOW NOT TO SPREAD THE FLU
... instead of all the publicity and hype about vaccines
My thinking anyway.
best wishes
Seriously!!!
My 80+ year old mother refuses to get the flu shot. She firmly believes in natural immunity. She's never had the flu. She does however eat an immaculate diet free of hormones and chemicals that are difficult to pronounce.
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If someone sneezes directly into your mom's face (which happens), no diet would prevent her from getting ill. If she was already immune to the particular strain, then yes.
Glucose tablets work great on hypoglycemia! I keep a bottle in my bedroom, and one in my purse. They are $1.99 for a bottle. Please get you a bottle and keep it with you!
Thank you so much for this information. I have bad low blood sugar at times and never was told about glucose tablets.
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I don't get the flu shot. I got it once--about 10 years ago--and that was the only one I've ever had. Our family stays healthy in other ways: whole foods (cooking from actual food ingredients, from scratch--no convenience foods, including bread, unless it's an emergency or we're eating out, which is rare!), local raw honey, plenty of sunshine, plenty of sleep, lots of water, and chiropractic. We brush our teeth and see our dentist regularly (the mouth is the gateway of illness!), and we take vitamins as needed. We almost never use antibiotics, so our bodies are able to heal well on the rare occasions that we need them.
So...it's pretty easy for us to remain healthy.
Allergies are another story. We have lots of yellow pine pollen that flies through the air around here, and it causes some running of the nose and itching of the eyes--but no flu!
No amount of healthy eating can prevent a flu virus from infecting you if it comes into contact with your mucous membranes. Being fit may make you stronger to fight an illness or perhaps make you less susceptible to colds (which might take hold better if someone's defense are down) or may make the severity of the symptoms less. But athletes have been downed by the flu and young, perfectly healthy people in the prime of their lives have died from it.
Allergies are immune system disorders so healthy diet and lifestyle may not keeping you as free from risk as you may think.
I think those who avoid the flu may also be simply better at washing their hands and not touching their faces. I don't get sick that often but I'm extreme with hand washing and avoiding coughing people, etc. I will move in the theater if someone is sneezing or coughing behind me. I literally run from coughing or sneezing people in the market, etc. I had to take my mom to he ER on New Years day because she had a violent cold that was suddenly choking her and nothing was open. I asked for and wore a mask in the ER the whole time (hours) to avoid others infecting me.
So, I don't get sick too often.
But I have reason to be worried because I have asthma and a serious flu or even cold can kill me.
I can remember a few times having the classical flu. As a child (fever, exhaustion, chills, achy, sick as a dog) once and once severely as an adult during the raging epidemic of 96' or 97'. That last flu destroyed me. My whole family was bedridden for two weeks such that no one could take care of anyone else. It reminded me of the scene in the Little House in the Prairie book when the Ingalls family gets Malaria or Scarlet fever. It was intense.
I had fevers, incredible night sweats with water simply pouring out of the middle of my chest like a sieve, and I could not move for two weeks. I actually did not fully recover for several months - about 6 months or so. It took so long to get better I began to believe I had AIDS or cancer or a million other diseases I could come up with. Nope, just the flu.
I was young and didn;t think much about it happening again but I did then realize the flu could be much worse than you think.
In the last several years, I have been getting the flu shot pretty consistently because I'm not in my 20's anymore, I have asthma and I can't afford to miss work and I;m more paranoid now! Of course the flu shot works. Always? No. One young, healthy gal about to get married recently died a few days after getting a flu shot. The shot did not cover the strain she contracted, it appears, or it was too late to develop immunity. She developed sepsis went from healthy to dead within a couple of days of getting the flu. It was horrible.
Whether it works typically depends on the timing of the shot, what strain you are exposed to and whether it was covered in the vaccine that year (although a couple kids have died from the same strain the vaccine covered), but I will do whatever I can to lower my odds of getting it or getting it hard, because I don't want to die. Having asthma increases my risk.
I got sick twice, after flu shots. Once was just a 24 hour reaction- a bit achy, lethargic. Nothing major. It happened the day after the shot and it went away.
The second time I was sick for a few days - also lethargic and achy and slightly feverish, but nothing life-altering. I believe the first one was a reaction to the shot and the second one I may have been exposed to another strain of flu.
I have had no other reactions from any other vaccine and I've also now had the pneumonia shot, whooping cough, etc. Just an achy arm that isn't bad if I rub it and move it around a lot after the shot.
I think the risk of harm to anyone (except certain small kids) from most vaccines is miniscule and minor when compared to the risk of contracting the disease the vaccine is trying to prevent. So I try hard to increase my odds of staying healthy, in all ways, including vaccines.
