week-long stomach flu
#239557 - 01/18/06 03:47 PM
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jaime g
Reged: 07/27/05
Posts: 961
Loc: new york city
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there's this vicious stomach flu going around the city - seems to last for several days, up to a week. (there's a reason flus are 24-hour bugs - we can't handle more than a day of violent puking!) i'm so scared of getting it - if normal people are taking so long to recover, i'd hate to see what it'd do to someone with ibs! ugh. i guess the upside would be that we already know how to take care of our stomachs & treat them gently... right? i'm on a massive hand-washing campaign and just keeping my fingers crossed, but i can't think of anything else preventative to do.
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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Up your vitamin C as well as your iron, as one affects the other. Handwashing works really well, but just remember to not touch your face as well. Drink lots of hot liquids to keep your system 'warm', and good luck!
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In addition to what Isabel said, I'd recommend not sharing snacks or treats that co-workers or friends might bring. Unfortunately, not everyone washes their hands. EW!
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and remember, the actual influenza virus is a respiratory infection-in your lings-with fever and chills and losing consciousness. no stomach involved, usually. So the flu shot is useless for the stomach flu, known as gastroenteritis or rotavirus or Norovirus.
Can you tell I'm a geek who does her research? 
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Go to a deserted island and don't come back till spring. that's the only way I can think of. I get the stomach flu from just talking about it. EVERY Feb. vacation when I was a kid I got it. Yuck! Hopefully I'm done with it for this year. I got it when I was in the hospital last week. fun when you are hooked up to machines and can't run.
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Carol
nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda
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I have heard of this flu going around. My boss's kids had it and it got passed along through the house, even his wife got it. But he didn't. There is only so much you can do. Everyone has great suggestions. I echo them. Wash your hands and don't touch your face. Also buy one of those little bottles of Purell and use it immediately after being on the subway! I do or try to!
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I saw a special on tv yesterday on this subject. They said to avoid touching things that a lot of others touch---like elevator buttons and door handles in public restrooms. The woman showed how she hits the elevator button with her elbow! I thought I was the only one that paranoid about germs! HA!
I always use a paper towel to open public restroom doors, and I wouldn't hold on to the side of an escalator if someone paid me a million dollars!
Also, the story said that the handle on the office's microwave is usually 100 times more infectionous than a toilet! How gross!
Lately, I've been wiping down my kitchen counters, doorknobs, tv remote, phones (land and cell) and tv knobs----as well as everything in our bathrooms----with those Lysol antibacterial wipes. I love those things! The kitchen is my new target, since I heard it's more of a germ culprit than the bathroom.
I went shopping yesterday and wiped down the handle on the shopping cart with an antibacterial wipe I had in my purse. An employee gave me a strange look, but I don't care! I don't want to be sick again!
Also, if you do get sick, throw out your toothbrush and replace it with a new one afterwards.
And please stay home from work if you are sick. Everyone in my husband's office got the same thing---and just passed it around, because they all thought they were too valuable to stay home when they were hacking and coughing.
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