Flu Season

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Flu Season
Topic Started: Nov 18 2013, 08:13 AM (385 Views)
goldengal	Nov 18 2013, 08:13 AM Post #1
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	FLU SEASON To avoid it... Eat right! Make sure you get your daily dose of fruit and veggies. Take your vitamins and bump up your vitamin C. Get plenty of exercise because it builds your immune system. Walk for at least an hour a day. Go for a swim, Take the stairs instead of the lift, etc.. Wash your hands often. If you can't, keep a bottle of antibacterial stuff around. Get lots of fresh air. Open doors & windows whenever possible. Try to eliminate as much stress from your life as you can. Get plenty of rest. OR Take the doctor's approach. Think about it... When you go for a flu shot, what do they do first? They clean your arm with alcohol. Why? Because Alcohol KILLS GERMS. So... I walk to the pub. (exercise) I put lime in my vodka. (fruit) Celery in my Bloody Mary. (veggies) Drink outdoors on the patio. (fresh air) Tell jokes and laugh. (eliminate stress) Then I pass out. (rest) The way I see it... If you keep your alcohol levels up, Flu germs Can't get you! REMEMBER: 'A shot in the glass Is better than one in the ass!' Live Well - Laugh Often - Love Much Take care, Pat



Trotsky	Nov 18 2013, 10:53 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	And then crawl under the covers and stay there until the fever passes.



campy	Nov 18 2013, 05:13 PM Post #3
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Trotsky Nov 18 2013, 10:53 AM And then crawl under the covers and stay there until the fever passes. That's about all you can do with a virus. It makes no difference to the virus whether you are healthy or not when it invades. I guess if you stay away from crowds and live like a hermit your chances of getting the flu virus has to be minimal. Quote: Go for a swim, No way Jose. A pool and a pool area? Edited by campy, Nov 18 2013, 05:15 PM.



Darcie	Nov 18 2013, 05:17 PM Post #4
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Campy, not true for all. I go everywhere, I never wipe carts in stores. I do wash my hands before handling food though. I haven't had the flu for 27 years, the thing is that you have to have a good immune system, the virus may show up but they are zapped. I have had the flu shot for about the last 10 years.



campy	Nov 18 2013, 10:51 PM Post #5
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Darcie Nov 18 2013, 05:17 PM Campy, not true for all. I go everywhere, I never wipe carts in stores. I do wash my hands before handling food though. I haven't had the flu for 27 years, the thing is that you have to have a good immune system, the virus may show up but they are zapped. I have had the flu shot for about the last 10 years. I can say the same thing but just consider myself lucky. I can't say the same for a cold.



margaret	Nov 19 2013, 12:41 AM Post #6
Red Star Member Posts: 2,276 Group: Member Member #1,032 Joined: October 3, 2013	I have only had the flu shot for the last 4 or 5 years but I stopped getting the flu years ago. I take the shot because my doctor worries about my husband's asthma



Trotsky	Nov 19 2013, 01:05 AM Post #7
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I think many of us stop getting serious cases of the flu because over the years we have slowly gained a natural immunity to the various influenza sub-types by exposure, and various degrees of sickness. Like that last one, touted as highly dangerous that seemed to pass over seniors. It was an H1N1 which coincidentally was the 1917-1918 flu, the most deadly scourge in half a millennium. Some immunity is passed from mother to child in nursing and I'll bet many of us had mothers wh0 lived through the 1918 pandemic. It killed two of my aunts in childhood, twins. It is the current 'swine flu." My mother lived with them and was 3 so she was obviously exposed and gained an immunity. And then continuing, we lived through the Asian Flu of 1957-1958 (H2N2) that seems extinct now...I was sick as a dog. We lived through the Hong Kong Flu of 1968-1969 (H3N2) which is still circulating round and round the globe...I was sick as a dog. It killed a MILLION people. So, in a way, we paid our dues. Remember the end of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. The thing that saved mankind and destroyed the aliens was our natural immunity gained by generations of ancestors getting sick from this and that. Mr. Wells was no dummy. Edited by Trotsky, Nov 19 2013, 01:10 AM.



Darcie	Nov 19 2013, 03:59 AM Post #8
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	campy Nov 18 2013, 10:51 PM Darcie Nov 18 2013, 05:17 PM Campy, not true for all. I go everywhere, I never wipe carts in stores. I do wash my hands before handling food though. I haven't had the flu for 27 years, the thing is that you have to have a good immune system, the virus may show up but they are zapped. I have had the flu shot for about the last 10 years. I can say the same thing but just consider myself lucky. I can't say the same for a cold. I don't get colds either.



campy	Nov 19 2013, 04:51 AM Post #9
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Darcie Nov 19 2013, 03:59 AM campy Nov 18 2013, 10:51 PM Quoting limited to 2 levels deep I don't get colds either. Like Never?



Darcie	Nov 19 2013, 05:01 AM Post #10
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	No I don't. Was studied by the school of medicine in Montreal. They said I had very high T-cells, thought I might have bone cancer, but I don't, just have an excess of T-cells. They said it was an anomaly with no pathology and that I had all the benefits. They often used to call me to donate blood, apparently to use on patients, I am a universal donor.



Trotsky	Nov 22 2013, 11:52 AM Post #11
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Darcie, Is that T-killer or T-helper cells or both?



Trotsky	Nov 22 2013, 11:53 AM Post #12
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Well, I broke down and got my biennial or triennial flu shot. I felt I wasn't getting anything useful for the visit so I made him do a needle jab. Je didn't have the strong old folks version so I settled for the under 60 shot. Probably both are equally useless. Edited by Trotsky, Nov 22 2013, 11:55 AM.



Darcie	Nov 22 2013, 11:54 AM Post #13
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I have no idea Trotskty, they just told me T-cells.



goldengal	Nov 22 2013, 12:57 PM Post #14
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	I only only know T cells when it comes to hypothyoidism. Are they different T cells? So often I relate human illnesses to dogs and vice versa. Take care, Pat



Darcie	Nov 22 2013, 02:10 PM Post #15
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	From what I have gathered in a piecemeal fashion this probably is what they are talking about. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/immunesystem/immunecells/pages/tcells.aspx I know I take some sort of suppressant pill every day every day.



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