My Brother Died of the Flu at Age 49

I am so sorry for your loss. It hurts so much to lose the people we love, and when it is such a shock too, it just makes it worse. My sincerest condolences.

I have had a very bad flu for the last week myself (despite having received the flu shot) and now I wonder if I was a total fool to try and go it alone. I’m better now, so I guess I skated through. I’m so sorry about your brother.

Yes, my point was that people assume incorrectly that bacterial infection always acompanies the influenza infection and want antibiotics anytime they have a virus. This, according to the experts in infectious disease, is a primary cause of antibiotic resistance and is not in keeping with current medical recommendations.

I understand your point of anti-biotic resistance but disagree. I’m pretty sure that when I take 7 days of ciprofloxacin I don’t also have a staph infection. I last used cipro two months ago when I was having trouble breathing during a lengthy sickness. My breathing improved within a day and the cipro cleared up the cold/flu soon thereafter. I was able to return to work much sooner. Versus the crapshoot of going to a doctor it was a no-brainer.

I believe mis-diagnosing and stopping prescribed prescriptions prematurely are likely much greater causes of anti-biotic resistance. In any event the traditional path didn’t help this man. I believe having some anti-virals and anti-biotics on hand would have.

I usually don’t have a problem but I caught something that turned into bronchitis..and I felt like was on the way to pneumonia. I was going downhill fast. I didn’t feel all that bad but my chest was coughing up very thick tan mucus and I couldn’t get the coughing under control.

I started bombarding my system with everything. All the homespun remedies.

resveratrol
Thieves Oil that I had made
Nac
Vitamin D , E
Cinnamon
curcumin/bioperine
oscillococcinum ( I had a ton of this because it was a money maker at Walgreens)

egg whites on my feet
vinegar on my feet
and on and on and on

I can’t tell you what worked but it had a dramatic turnaround.

I think I would have ended up in the hospital if I hadn’t started this regimen. I didn’t start it soon enough because I figured since I really don’t have problems my body would fend it off.

Big mistake. It was pretty stupid since I basically have a Walgreens drug store in my house. I wasn’t taking anything.

Next time I will try to take more control of the situaation.

I am still coughing up a bit but it isn’t sticky mucus.

I have found oliveleaf extract to be a godsend for me
when I was sick with flu cough etc.
Last year I worked in a day care and was sick off and on for over 3 months with flu etc.

I found about about olive leaf extract and after 2 days I was much better. I always keep some on hand now and when anybody in the family is sick they are well super fast with
ole.
Here is a link to where I found it. neat company
http://www.seagateproducts.com/olive-leaf-extract.html

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