Throat and nasal anti-microbial sprays
anti microbial hand washing. For 20 seconds with hot water.
Gargle salt water
sleep upright, at an angle on your back.
Ice packs. Ice chips. And worst case, ice baths.
monitor your fever, take anti-inflammatories, tami-flu, Tylenol flu PM, and alternate with Motrin.
do not take more than recommended read bottles carefully. You will vomit blood or experience extreme discomfort and stomach ulcers.
Do not eat dairy.
Tea, honey, and cough drops.
hand sanitizer, masks.
if fever gets above 102, go to hospital immediately. Brain damage.
heating blankets, hot showers.
if you can’t sleep and other meds don’t help, Benadryl can be taken on top of other recommended medications and prescription antibiotics to help you sleep.
Try to keep good nutrition. It’s hard, supplements are ideal when you can’t eat. Get as many vitamins as possible. Protein. Veggies.
stay hydrated as fuck.
if you cannot eat and don’t want to take supplements, try smoothies and eat a few crackers- saltines or bread with your medications.
go to clinic and get antibiotics, tami-flu, ask about a hormone injection to help you fight it if your symptoms persist and worsen over the next five days, such as fever chills and shaking, sickness and fatigue are too severe and you are weak.
The horizons injection works wonders.
take your antibiotics consistently and all the way through. If you stop just because you feel better this gives the infection a leg up, and will come back with full force or twice as worse potentially! set alarms and reminders to make sure if you fall asleep- and keep your shit on the charger 24/7.
Netflix and rest. Or YouTube. Gaming. It helps distract from how awful you feel.
Prophylactic and XOfluza. Ask your doctor when you go to the clinic to have these. It will also help you fight this off significantly faster.
with the flu you are racing against the clock and you want to get well as fast as possible before it develops into pneumonia. This is when the flu becomes deadly as your lungs fill up with fluid faster than it they can be expelled.
At that point you may need hospitalization.
If you are sick longer than 5 days with progressing and worsening symptoms- be weary of the signs of pneumonia or walking pneumonia and see a doctor or go to ER if you are experiencing those symptoms.
Pneumonia is what is deadly, not the flu. If you smoke, abuse substances once a week or more, or have a weak immune system and pre-existing health conditions you are more susceptible to developing it. As well as elderly of course.
Do not sniffle your mucous or suppress your coughs. It sucks but, keeping it all in makes the infection worse, and you need to expel as much as you can. Spit out everything you cough up, do not swallow it. Blow your nose do not sniffle it. Always. and then get rid of the trash bin every few hours or at the very least once a day, as keeping it around is just re-exposing yourself to the virus as you’re trying to fight it off.
Kambucha tea. Emergen-C powder. Immune boosting supplements, foods, drinks. Research them and try them out. Emergen-C really helps you fight things faster. ZICAM is more of a preventative but it couldn’t hurt.
And lastly, please go to clinic and get proper testing for flu, and corona virus if you have travelled in the last two weeks!
There is high probability you have Flu Type A, there is a cold going around as well, so this could be the cause of your fever. Not the Cov virus but- just to be safe, get tested. That way you can get proper treatment immediately.
If for some reason you ignore all of this advice and let yourself stay sick at home, if you do begin having seizures or fainting, or feeling like you can’t breath/shortness of breath, headache fatigue and nausea, please call doctor or hospital. Let them know you may have been exposed to corona virus or have the flu- as you have a temperature. And they can help you get treatment and get to the hospital, without infecting anymore people doctors nurses and hospital staff etc.
please be considerate of others when seeking treatment. Call the clinic you’re going to ahead of time and let them know so they can take proper precautions before seeing you.
Don’t use public transit. Things like that.
also there are instructional videos on how to properly put on gloves and a mask- there is a wrong way to go about it that doesn’t help as much.
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