Alside101
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has anyone got any home cures or voo doo for a sickness bug so i can get back to brewing?
Thanks Al
Thanks Al
home cures
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strong beer [homebrew] stick a red hot poker in it,then drink. repeat,repeat.
let us know how you get on,
hope this helps,
con.
let us know how you get on,
hope this helps,
con.
Alside101
Landlord.
wow really works
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
Do a brew and inhaling the fumes from the boil definately cures man flu
Dutto
Landlord.
Having lived and worked in a lot of dodgy places I learned very early on to keep a product called "Lomotil" in my Ditty-Bag!
It started in Iran back in 1979.
Having sat on the toilet for nearly two days I managed to arrange a taxi to get to the Company Doctor's. The taxi had to go from my hotel and across Ahwaz via the toilets in two company offices and another hotel.
When I arrived (and after visiting the toilet in the doctor's surgery) the Doctor told me "You should have come here when it first started!" ...
... and handed me a packet of Lomotil with the instructions "Take two right now, then take one every time you have to go to the toilet in the next twenty-four hours."
I took only FOUR tablets in total and about three days later I realised that I hadn't been to the loo for three days. :whistle:
I have kept a store of Lomotil available ever since and in the last 38 years the most tablets I have ever taken for similar complaints is FOUR!
Enjoy your recovery! :thumb:
It started in Iran back in 1979.
Having sat on the toilet for nearly two days I managed to arrange a taxi to get to the Company Doctor's. The taxi had to go from my hotel and across Ahwaz via the toilets in two company offices and another hotel.
When I arrived (and after visiting the toilet in the doctor's surgery) the Doctor told me "You should have come here when it first started!" ...
... and handed me a packet of Lomotil with the instructions "Take two right now, then take one every time you have to go to the toilet in the next twenty-four hours."
I took only FOUR tablets in total and about three days later I realised that I hadn't been to the loo for three days. :whistle:
I have kept a store of Lomotil available ever since and in the last 38 years the most tablets I have ever taken for similar complaints is FOUR!
Enjoy your recovery! :thumb:
Alside101
Landlord.
Having lived and worked in a lot of dodgy places I learned very early on to keep a product called "Lomotil" in my Ditty-Bag!
It started in Iran back in 1979.
Having sat on the toilet for nearly two days I managed to arrange a taxi to get to the Company Doctor's. The taxi had to go from my hotel and across Ahwaz via the toilets in two company offices and another hotel.
When I arrived (and after visiting the toilet in the doctor's surgery) the Doctor told me "You should have come here when it first started!" ...
... and handed me a packet of Lomotil with the instructions "Take two right now, then take one every time you have to go to the toilet in the next twenty-four hours."
I took only FOUR tablets in total and about three days later I realised that I hadn't been to the loo for three days. :whistle:
I have kept a store of Lomotil available ever since and in the last 38 years the most tablets I have ever taken for similar complaints is FOUR!
Enjoy your recovery! :thumb:
nice 1 and thanks. its the other end i cant stop
Taking gut paralysing drugs like this or loperamide hydrochloride (sold as Imodium) is OK if you have minor travellers diarrhoea and need to travel but is generally a very bad idea if you have more severe food poisoning/dysentery or similar.
Your body is trying to get rid of the bugs and what they are feeding on for a reason and interfering with that process can see you very ill indeed or dead.
Generally, appropriate antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin will see you right in short order but unless you are familiar enough with the other nasties that might be confused with simple diarrhoea to rule them out, it's still worth seeing a doctor.
There does seem to ne a lot of Norovirus doing the rounds at the moment and there's not much point in taking anything for that other than ensuring that you stay well hydrated.
Real medicine aside, be weary of home/alternative cures for anything. They tend to fall into one of two camps:
Those that have not been proven to work and those that have been proven not to work.
Dutto
Landlord.
I only have a couple of cures for that end and they're mainly for Sea Sickness.
1. Go and sit under a very big old tree! It works every time! :thumb:
2. The "Bacon Fat and a Bit of String" cure. When no trees are available, tie a lump of bacon fat to a length of string, swallow the fat and then slowly recover it with the string: keep doing it until you feel better!
By now, you may realise that sympathy did not loom large in my family!
A favourite memory of my Mum was that she would say "This'll sting a bit." as she dabbed a cut with neat iodine and she never lied on these occasions! :lol::lol:
Another favourite was "It's only pain and it will go away, eventually." As always, she was correct; but I always thought the "eventually" was a bit ominous!
So, in line with family tradition, I can happily say "You will laugh about this next week ... :thumb:
... if you are still with us!" :whistle:
Alside101
Landlord.
i can see the light
Dutto
Landlord.
I agree and I am well aware of things like amoebic dysentery, cholera and a variety of other ailments which may cause you to sit on a toilet all day.
My first response is always to drink as much fresh water as I can lay my hands on, eat natural yoghurt as a replacement for other foods and chew on a couple of cloves of garlic. They may be "alternative cures" but they were used for many hundreds of years before "Big Pharma" took over the world.
If I had no raging fever and still had a problem after 36 hours, I took the Lomotil; and I'm still here to prove that the system worked. :lol:
Believe me, when you are in the Bay of Bengal and the nearest doctor is about 100 miles and a day's journey away, you'd better know your own body and all the things that can go wrong with it! :thumb:
BTW, many offshore facilities had a Doctor onboard but to be honest I wouldn't have trusted half of them to treat my dog for fleas! :whistle:
When I had acute necrotising pancreatitis 14 years ago, I thought antacid tablets and a boatload of painkillers would do the trick. Nope... it took 3 weeks in an induced coma and life support to sort it out. And cutting down on the beer to lessen the chance of another bout. So far, so good...
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Dutto
Landlord.
Glad you're still with us ... :thumb:
... but "So far so good!" was what the man falling off the tower-block roof said when he passed the tenth floor! :lol::lol:
"Cutting down on the beer" sounds ominous as well. :whistle:
That does not sound even vaguely pleasant. Glad you recovered.
Just out of interest, how does excessive beer drinking contribute to pancreatitis? I wasn't aware it could.
Apparently there's 3 known causes - gallstones blocking the pancreatic duct, the venom of some obscure Brazilian viper and excessive, long-term alcohol consumption. They ruled out the first two....! Only a small number of folk are likely to succumb, bit like heavy, lifelong smokers who don't get lung diseases I suppose. But ye it was grim, last thing I remember before waking from the coma was almost passing out from the pain and being given 'gas and air' in the ambulance weeks earlier. What happened was my pancreas ruptured and highly corrosive enzymes got everywhere they shouldn't, resulting in shock and all organs shutting down. Two years later the consultant said I'd made a complete recovery - just 'go easy' on the beer!
