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hunnymonster

I've got a cold:( Everyone in this office has had it. Despite warnings that I would do nasty things to their genitals if they passed it on, someone has managed to infect me.

It's not a particularly bad one, slightly raised temp, RHR 52, feel a bit like glue and I really want to go back to bed. What can I do to get well as soon as possible.

Dr4gul4

Vit C is always good , or you could try sum uni flu, but remember they all have Vit C in them

g'em

Rest, vit C, paracetamol for headaches, and lots of water (and maybe the odd hot todday for medicinal purposes ) is really the best course of action. Get better soon!!

hunnymonster

thanks. I have to go out to a paeds lecture in AMNCH at 2 pm but I think when I get back I'll just get into my PJ's and into bed. I'm not being productive at all today. If anyone sets of the fire alarm in new square I will not be responsible for my actions!

Degsy

Dr4gul4 wrote:

Vit C is always good , or you could try sum uni flu, but remember they all have Vit C in them

just be warned the side effects from uni-flu can be dire..


Headache, dry mouth, blurred vision, gastro-intestinal disturbance, urinary retention and occasional rashes have been reported. Hypertension may occur due to phenylephrine. Adverse effects of paracetamol are rare but hypersensitivity including skin rash may occur. There have been a few reports of blood dyscrasias including thrombocytopenia and agranulocytosis but these were not necessarily causally related to paracetamol

hunnymonster

Degsy wrote:

.....Hypertension may occur due to phenylephrine. .....

worth taking for that alone, <see log post about the problems of low BP>

So I put my head down for 5 minutes after lunch and I've just woken up. It appears noone in office even noticed I didn't come back after lunch. So much for being invaluable! Still I just popped in to say hi <wave> and I'm off back to bed.

Hanley

I gave myself food poisioning. I've eaten 2 slices of toast, 2 pts of 7-up and 2 bottles of lucozade since about 11pm yesterday.

Consider yourself lucky!!

hunnymonster

sounds like a typical student diet


Food poisioning definately trumps a cold on the feeling lousy scale. Should I arrange to have naked massage-therapist virgins sent over to your place to help "heal" you or are we saving that particular one for the killer hangover?

Hanley

I've already had a little angel over to look after me today!!

brianthebard

Pfft I've had a chest infection all week and had food poisoning two weeks ago. On the plus side I'm too sick to be stressed out about exams.

hunnymonster

personally I don't rate chest infections. If you can arrange a collapsed lung or pleural pneumonia you may move up the league table of illness. Mind you if Hanlye has the energy to be "looked after" he is not that ill either and I'm keeping all the medicinal ben and jerry's for myself!

Hanley

hunnymonster wrote:

. Mind you if Hanlye has the energy to be "looked after" he is not that ill either and I'm keeping all the medicinal ben and jerry's for myself!

Oi I didn't say that!! Unless by "looked after" you meant toast and 7-up??

BTB, chest infections don't count! Sorry, just the way it is

brianthebard

I have asthma though which makes my chest infections like wearing a corset around my ribs while trying to hack up a cat.


(dammit I even lose at p!ssing contests.)

hunnymonster

ok you're in. The asthma gets you a by. Right I'm off back to bed. Hopefully rest is doign some good and I'll be better tomorrow.

hunnymonster

swam for 24 minutes today (1km!) an dmy arms were barely working. Damn you germs! Think I'm in for another early night. On the plus side I slept through the night for the first time in ages yesterday.

t-ha

hunnymonster wrote:

swam for 24 minutes today (1km!) an dmy arms were barely working.

Wow - you should really look into your endurance levels.


*t-ha runs and hides*

hunnymonster

t-ha wrote:

Wow - you should really look into your endurance levels.
*t-ha runs and hides*

I'm not so sick that I can't come around there and twack you.

Diamondmaker

Had a head cold/hay fever all week but based on a previous thread here, I just sucked it in ( literally! dripping out the nose.....:D ) and trained thro as normal.

It works! its gone.

hunnymonster

I would usually do low intensity work if I had a cold. Having said that I've not had one in a long time. THe problem at the moment is that my joints ache and body feels very weak and is moving very slowly.