WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------

yerrag

Plentybof rest helps a lot but sleep is difficult if your breathing is restricted. Helps to sleep in a reclining position.

Since a fever helps kill microbes, wrap yourself in a blanket as you sleep and let it sweat as the heat induces more antimicrobial action.

Drinking plenty of water may be harder, as water tastes bland. I used to drink 7Up as a child, but colas then had real sugar, which is better than the sugar substitutes in soda these days.

Gargling with salt is very helpful.

Taking Benadryl helps me sleep.

Since it is also harder to eat when sick, I dont force myself to eat when I don't feel like it. Digesting food uses energy and it diverts the energy needes for healing. Just eat light. I would eat rice porridge with dry meat flakes, which is easily found in asian grocery stores.

Im not keen on taking paracetamol or NSAIDs. Lowering body temperature is counterproductive.

Sleep is the best way as it let's the body recover. Without sleep, medication is useless as medicine is not the primary way to heal from flu. It ia an aid to potentiate the real solution.

Hope this helps.

Kilgore

@engineer Interesting thx.

Kilgore

@user1 @yerrag Thanks for the answers.
Should I take thyroid? I forgot to mention that when I had the fever I did take a quarter of cynoplus. I don't know if that is what caused the fever or not.

@yerrag said in WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------:

Im not keen on taking paracetamol or NSAIDs. Lowering body temperature is counterproductive.

See. I did not know that they do that. Im starting to feel less of their effects as I am getting to sleep time.

I will try to sleep more. I have to.

yerrag

@Kilgore

If you're normothyroid to begin with, your fever may be a result of your body having the ability to raise temperature when needed. You don't need to thyroid at all.

Since our immune system creates ROS to destroy pathogens, these ROS may spill over to cause oxidative stress, our body has to rely on ita primary antioxidants to counter oxidative stress.

These processes consume energy that would divert rhe body from optimal mitochondrial oxidation. Because less CO2 is produced, the body can become acidic and this disrupts the virtuous cycle needed by the body to be keep running in a self-correcting and rebalancing manner. Less CO2 in blood may also restrict tissue oxygenation, and lead to less energy produced while increasing lactic acid production while decreasing CO2 production.

Taking baking soda, drinking carbonated water, or breathing carbogen will provide an external source of CO2 and bicarbonate to compensate for the temporary shortfall in endogenous CO2 production. Drinking citrus fruit juices also provides bicarbonate as rhe citrate readily xonverts to bicarbonate in the body.

cs3000

@kilgore benzocaine spray comes in handy to take the edge off, maybe enough to sleep at least
cistus tea or geranium pelargonium sidoides root) extract if tolerated might help it resolve it a day or 2 sooner

alfredoolivas

This is such NPC advice, but drink a lot of water.

sunsunsun

for future reference, 5mg methylene blue, 500mg vitamin c, and like 1-2 mg cyproheptadine is my go-to for if I feel like something might be coming on. and like 10,000 iu vitamin d whereas my normal dose when I take it (not in summer time) is 3000iu

dapose

Oregano oil. 4 drops on tongue! It’s like warm hellfire to evil throat bastards.
Probably should be drinking nac + glycine combo. 1/4 tsp each couple few times a day.
Stay warm.
Aspirin. Then more aspirin.
Bone broth soup.

Kilgore

After sleeping and staying in bed all throughout yesterday I feel much better. Now I am just coughing, still a little sore throat but I think that's battle damage. I think sleeping it off was the most important thing.

@yerrag said in WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------:

Taking baking soda, drinking carbonated water, or breathing carbogen will provide an external source of CO2 and bicarbonate to compensate for the temporary shortfall in endogenous CO2 production. Drinking citrus fruit juices also provides bicarbonate as rhe citrate readily xonverts to bicarbonate in the body.

Ill do this. Thanks for the detailed advice as always.

@cs3000 said in WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------:

@kilgore benzocaine spray comes in handy to take the edge off, maybe enough to sleep at least
cistus tea or geranium pelargonium sidoides root) extract if tolerated might help it resolve it a day or 2 sooner

Spray made me feel terrible I couldn't stand it!

@alfredoolivas said in WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------:

This is such NPC advice, but drink a lot of water.

True. Need water to sweat out toxins!

@sunsunsun said in WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------:

for future reference, 5mg methylene blue, 500mg vitamin c, and like 1-2 mg cyproheptadine is my go-to for if I feel like something might be coming on. and like 10,000 iu vitamin d whereas my normal dose when I take it (not in summer time) is 3000iu

I dont have mb or cypro but I will stock up on those for sure. Im popping a lot of vitamin c now!

Hando-Jin

bicarb

some think the 'flu' is actually an acidosis

I have been able to induce all the symptoms of a cold, in varying
degree from a simple coryza to that of la grippe and the "flu," by the
induction of an artificial acidosis through the administration of ammo
nium and calcium chlorides. The degree of severity of the symptoms
was in direct ratio to the degree of acidosis induced. In the severer
degree of acidosis, all the classical symptoms of the "flu" were present,
even including a low degree of fever. The symptoms rapidly subsided
upon the administration of sodium bicarbonate in large doses by mouth
and by rectum.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.18.1.15