Autumn Illness

Goooner1886 · 06-10-2014 10:16am #1

Is there many people suffering from chest infections and the flu at the moment in Ireland?

I ask because I am, and I'll be going to the doctor later, but I always seem to get the same illness in the same month for the past five or six years and I'm interested to know if there's anyone else like this.

Hoop66 · 06-10-2014 10:17am

Yes, there are. The person that infected you, for a start.

whiskeyman · 06-10-2014 10:21am

Sounds like you have the cat aids OP.
Best of luck.

Goooner1886 · 06-10-2014 10:25am

whiskeyman wrote: »

Sounds like you have the cat aids OP.
Best of luck.

I always pop a rubber on when I violate Fluffy so not possible.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 06-10-2014 10:28am

I have a chest infection almost two weeks, horrible dose

Larbre34 · 06-10-2014 10:38am

Sick as a dog from Thursday to Sunday, temperature, body aches, chest and throat pain. nasty one, hadnt been ill for years.

06-10-2014 10:41am

If you're in school or Uni or any place where vast amounts of people are in a room together, it's inevitable. I got bugs every September or October of my life, and now I work in a Uni it's the same thing. Parents of kids in school pick them up from the kids who are all in a class together, breathing in each others germs.

Work on your own, the intersection of the seasons are always fertile ground for bugs.

anncoates · 06-10-2014 10:52am

You should start building up your immune system around late summer in advance of autumn: licking bus poles, dog turds, park benches etc.

WinnyThePoo · 06-10-2014 10:58am

Usually get a bout of Flu around this time of year. Hoping I get away with it this year!

ScummyMan · 06-10-2014 10:58am

"Fresher's flu" I believe is the technical term OP.

cloud493 · 06-10-2014 11:15am

I'm just through a chest infection, touch wood.

whiskeyman · 06-10-2014 11:18am

cloud493 wrote: »

touch wood.

every morning

kneemos · 06-10-2014 11:21am

What's a chest infection?

cloud493 · 06-10-2014 11:23am

A chest infection is a bacterial or viral infection of the airways leading down into the lungs, or of the lungs themselves

From the HSE website.

Mr. Incognito · 06-10-2014 11:24am

That'll be the damp

GalwayGirl26 · 06-10-2014 12:08pm

Head cold and chest infection; on and off all winter for the last 3 years. Got flu vaccine last week though for the first time; hoping that improves things!!

GalwayGirl26 · 06-10-2014 12:08pm

Head cold and chest infection; on and off all winter for the last 3 years. Got flu vaccine last week though for the first time; hoping that improves things!!

Autumn Illness

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