I have had the flu so many times in my life that statistically I should be dead.
Who knows what really happened to this poor girl? She may have had bacterial pneumonia and sepsis which were either misdiagnosed or not yet apparent when she saw Urgent Care. When I first saw this story, I thought it was a stretch to say she died from the flu, but I guess it’s possible.
Guns?
The real reason for the article is revealed in the last line:
“The most effective way to prevent the flu and its many potentially lethal complications is to get vaccinated.”
Follow the money.
pneumonia
Take vitamins D3, which is a hormone. It strengthens you against flu.
As each hemisphere moves into winter, reducing sun exposure and natural vitamin d supplementation, flu breaks out.
Constant and prolonged, your muscles wear out and things break...sturnum, ribs and your back. The body wears out and the cough wins.
This was not the flu. You only get intravenous antibiotics if you have a bacterial infection. She probably got a blood infection that spread to her heart and lungs.
I had a bout of serious pneumonia this past summer. I had been hospitalized for several days for cellulitis, a skin infection that settled in my right leg. After several days of IV antibiotics in the hospital I was discharged, but quickly I developed shortness of breath and high fever. I was diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown origin and was admitted again and pumped full of a full spectrum of IV antibiotics. I have never been so sick and had trouble breathing as well as high fever. Fortunately I responded to the antibiotics, but my doctor was quite frank and said I could easily have died if the antibiotics had not been effective.
treatment is with high potency IV corticosteroids to tamp down fatal massively out-of-control inflammation:
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Information from Scientific American
FReeper comments also reflect reduced access to sunshine and resulting suppressed immune system
seems to coincide with flu/ influenza outbreaks.
By Death?
Easy for Doctors to say get vaccinated, but the last time I did get the shot, my arm swelled up double. They had to give me something to counter act the vaccine.
In my grandfather’s generation, three of seven children died during childhood. Two in one week, from diphtheria.
Dakota Territory, 1880s-1890s. The treatment for diphtheria then, was gargling with kerosene.
Terrible article. To realize how flus affect us, the phrase “the immune system” needs to be replaced. “A network of organs,” they define it once. They might as well use “the watchamacallit.”
There is no round pink pulsating organ called The Immune System, located under the pancreas and next to the carburetor. It is a system and it is our biome of bacteria which influences the reaction to invading harmful creatures. One can have a huge effect upon this complex system using only diet and lifestyle.
For instance, I’d guess that poor 20 year old girl who died in AZ last month was undernourished. Her vitamin D levels were low. Her bacterial biome was suboptimal. Key minerals (missing from our American diet, poor soil) were not at therapeutic levels.
There is a reason she died when the person she caught the flu from didn’t. I don’t know what that is, but nutrition and lifestyle is the best way to beat the flu. Keep your nutritional intake strong and nourishing for you and your helpful bacteria. Keep your helpful bacteria population high and your harmful population low enough. Get sleep and mental rest.