how to cure flu, cough and sore throat?

Reba said:
If you have a fever you definitely don't want to heat or dehydrate your body.
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Correct. You need to stay hydrated. But sweating does return the body to homeostasis.
 
Liebling:-))) said:
"hot house" sound better than "sauna" :giggle:

True, I notice for a first time that sauna helps. I went to sauna every wednesday for almost one year since I joined member at fitness studio last January 2007. (Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri - mixed and wednesday - ladies). I hope that men will be not around in sauna... I went to sauna sometimes in Fridays or Mondays when I see nobody are there but ladies... IF I see men in sauna today then I have to hide my body with towel and sleep to cure my flu in sauna to ignore them... :giggle:
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LOL, :ty:


When I went in, I did not see no men, mostly ladies, maybe they have another one for men only :dunno:
 
GalaxyAngel said:
Sometimes cure for me.. I use strong coffee 100% HOT.. and drink glug it. Yeah it's will burn down the throat.. *ahhhhh your breath out* felt so good..

Sometimes cure for me.. vodka 1 oz drink it fast.. Let's burn down the throat.. Let's sing.. ahhhhh.. Wha..a.... great!

(chuckles)
That's all, what I did solution!
*ahem* Yes, I admit I'm nuts.. Don't ask question!
:P
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lol true but another way to help the throat is drinking Brandy did great ! lol
 
Sweating in sauna causes the body to lose fluid weight, not fat weight. Just drink some fluids after, and the weight comes right back. There might also be some psychological good feeling from the sauna but it won't "melt" the fat away.
 
Maria said:
It also helps to lose a few extra pounds. :)
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Really? I never thought about this. I only know that sauna does not make you lose weight but right foods and plenty execrise. Sauna removes water from body and also the salts as well.

A lot of people going to sauna to enjoy their relax and improve their health, body & mind and also forget the daily stress, problems.
 
Reba said:
If you have a fever you definitely don't want to heat or dehydrate your body.
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When I know fever coming soon. My body began freezing... I need REAL HOT bath or whatever badly... Sauna is best choice so I went straight to sauna to make myself feeling really good after work last Wednesday. I notice that "coming soon fever" gone after several times visit sauna... but I still have bronsilities, flu and sore eyes.
 
Angel said:
LOL, :ty:


When I went in, I did not see no men, mostly ladies, maybe they have another one for men only :dunno:
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Yes, I was in England and have seen 2 saunas for men and ladies. Here in most EU countries, only one sauna for mixed, men or ladies.

They have one sauna with list when there´re for ladies only, men only or mxied only.

At spa resort, I spent 5 weeks last year. They have sauna - They made list like every saunas. 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm for daily mixed and 4.00 pm to 7.30 pm for men and 7.30 pm to 22.00 pm for ladies, also wellness in area where I live, too... Monday and Wednesday MEN, Tuesday and Thursday LADIES, Friday to Sunday MIXED.

Anyway, I do feel mood to go straight to sauna as my son went to basement for boxkicking. I saw a man & 2 ladies in sauna... :ugh3: so I cover with my towel and light sleep until I noticed a man went out of sauna and do not need go back, so I feel good and remove towel and sleep again... 2 ladies asked me either I am ill. I said yes. They said they can see in me and said that sauna is good for me... I said yeah... and stay in and out of sauna for 3 hours. I have see 2 to 3 men... I ignored them and then cover with my towel... Its good that they dont see my nude... :giggle:
 
Angel said:
And hot tea with honey...I can not stand the taste of honey but it does help my throat through...
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squeeze juice from lemon and then add hot water and teaspoon honey... It´s really good for your throat and flu. I drank them a lot.
 
Reba said:
Sweating in sauna causes the body to lose fluid weight, not fat weight. Just drink some fluids after, and the weight comes right back. There might also be some psychological good feeling from the sauna but it won't "melt" the fat away.
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Yes, that´s right. I really never thought about weight loss until I saw posts here for a first time.
 
My physician says you're right, Reba. Good, helpful, caring post.

I’m not a full-time healthcare professional, just a former AHA instructor and ARC instructor. All these home and folk remedies remind me about trying to pass on the first-aid for rattlesnake bite in Montana (our only poisonous snake). Red Cross, Poison Control, and our state hunter education supplement advised to “place the bitten part on level with the heart while transporting the victim to the nearest medical facility for evaluation for antivenin and antibiotic therapy.”

The rationale is that rattler venom is chiefly hemotoxic, damaging local cells, and does not travel rapidly to vital organs as do neurotoxic poisons like the coral snake and the cobra. The evaluation is necessary before medical treatment because so many rattler hits do not envenomate or very little venom is involved.

Simple, yes? No, that’s where both rural and urban legend took over and the rattler becomes a boomslang or king cobra:

*My dad said you have to immediately cut and suck out the venom. He’s seen it work!

*I read to put dry ice on the bite to freeze the poison. My cousin saw it save a guy.

*A website sells stun guns (or cattle prods) to "zap" the poison harmless. Use regular 120 volt AC if nothing else is available. My sister’s boyfriend did it.

*My grampa said to have the victim drink a fifth of Jack Daniels. (My personal favorite).

*Apply a tourniquet (the most dangerous and life-threatening, but who cares ‘cause they’re fun to twist really tight).

Why have people “seen” these awful tortures work? The same reason the medical people want to evaluate the strike . . . they seem to work because a large number of “rattler” bites are from non-poisonous snakes bystanders misidentify. Many “strikes” are forked sticks or scratches by wire.

Even when it’s the real thing, many strikes are defensive with closed mouths or poison is not injected for some reason. Sometimes even when there’s puncture marks, very little poison is injected.

In all those cases, anything you do will look like it really cured the snakebite.

Sometimes for classes held in hospitals, I'd invite experts to explain -- an ER doc or poison control specialist. Do you think the people bent on torture will listen? No way. The Red Cross sold doughnuts to soldiers in WWI, so it has to be wrong. Besides, the internet or cousin Jack's girlfriend's granny are far more interesting.

I think I’m going back to Montana and market a thingie you wrap tightly around the bitten area that shocks the victim senseless, cuts deep, freezes, then sucks out frozen blood. When the victim comes to (if the victim comes to) you hand him or her a little airline bottle of vodka.
 
Liebling:-))) said:
Really? I never thought about this. I only know that sauna does not make you lose weight but right foods and plenty execrise. Sauna removes water from body and also the salts as well.

A lot of people going to sauna to enjoy their relax and improve their health, body & mind and also forget the daily stress, problems.
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Okay - when you go to sauna and after sauna, be sure to weight yourself and let me know if it works ? Just testin' yourself as experiment. :)
 
Chase said:
My physician says you're right, Reba. Good, helpful, caring post.

I’m not a full-time healthcare professional, just a former AHA instructor and ARC instructor. All these home and folk remedies remind me about trying to pass on the first-aid for rattlesnake bite in Montana (our only poisonous snake). Red Cross, Poison Control, and our state hunter education supplement advised to “place the bitten part on level with the heart while transporting the victim to the nearest medical facility for evaluation for antivenin and antibiotic therapy.”

The rationale is that rattler venom is chiefly hemotoxic, damaging local cells, and does not travel rapidly to vital organs as do neurotoxic poisons like the coral snake and the cobra. The evaluation is necessary before medical treatment because so many rattler hits do not envenomate or very little venom is involved.

Simple, yes? No, that’s where both rural and urban legend took over and the rattler becomes a boomslang or king cobra:

*My dad said you have to immediately cut and suck out the venom. He’s seen it work!

*I read to put dry ice on the bite to freeze the poison. My cousin saw it save a guy.

*A website sells stun guns (or cattle prods) to "zap" the poison harmless. Use regular 120 volt AC if nothing else is available. My sister’s boyfriend did it.

*My grampa said to have the victim drink a fifth of Jack Daniels. (My personal favorite).

*Apply a tourniquet (the most dangerous and life-threatening, but who cares ‘cause they’re fun to twist really tight).

Why have people “seen” these awful tortures work? The same reason the medical people want to evaluate the strike . . . they seem to work because a large number of “rattler” bites are from non-poisonous snakes bystanders misidentify. Many “strikes” are forked sticks or scratches by wire.

Even when it’s the real thing, many strikes are defensive with closed mouths or poison is not injected for some reason. Sometimes even when there’s puncture marks, very little poison is injected.

In all those cases, anything you do will look like it really cured the snakebite.

Sometimes for classes held in hospitals, I'd invite experts to explain -- an ER doc or poison control specialist. Do you think the people bent on torture will listen? No way. The Red Cross sold doughnuts to soldiers in WWI, so it has to be wrong. Besides, the internet or cousin Jack's girlfriend's granny are far more interesting.

I think I’m going back to Montana and market a thingie you wrap tightly around the bitten area that shocks the victim senseless, cuts deep, freezes, then sucks out frozen blood. When the victim comes to (if the victim comes to) you hand him or her a little airline bottle of vodka.
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Heh, heh. I think it's more likely the snake-bite victims survived despite the so-called cures rather than because of them! :lol:
 
I don't think I'd want to use a communal sauna where other people are sweating out their viruses. Ugh! I don't want to catch their germs!
 
Chase, What´s your post about snakes do with my thread here? :confused:


Reba said:
I don't think I'd want to use a communal sauna where other people are sweating out their viruses. Ugh! I don't want to catch their germs!
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Huh?

Did you know that germs and bacteria are EVERYWHERE?

Bring your own 2 clean towel to wipe your sweat with one of 2 towels, not your hands and sit on your other clean towel in the sauna.

Wear flip-flops when walking to the public swimming pool, sauna or whatever.

Anyway, there´re disinfectant spray and paper towel dispensers everywhere in every Fitness Studios accord Health Department´s recommendation. We whiped our sweat after finish use execrise machines.
 
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Maria said:
Okay - when you go to sauna and after sauna, be sure to weight yourself and let me know if it works ? Just testin' yourself as experiment. :)
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Okay, I will check my weight on mornings before go to evening sauna on the same time at Wednesday (ladies´s sauna) and then will check again on next day on Thursday morning and then let you know... :D
 
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