Posted on 01/26/2022 9:03:32 AM PST by RummyChick
I knew that I was tempting fate when I reposted a meme on my Instagram Stories joking about dodging golf balls at a driving range.
That’s how I felt – having gone nearly two years into the pandemic without catching Covid.
But then several weeks ago, my husband felt lightheaded and developed a bad cough.
We agreed to have him go downstairs to our guest room and isolate from me and our daughter until he could get a test.
The fastest and easiest way to get a test in our area in Virginia is not to get an at-home rapid test – because there aren’t any - but to wait in line in the cold at a testing center.
He went the next day and tested positive.
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Fat horse gets covid film at 11
She better get a booster or two to make sure she doesn’t get it again.
Congrats. Megan MeCant...it is you fault. Go pack sand! Frigging Dolt!
free tests at Dunkin’ now? Good to know. ps- i can’t stand her or her pillpopping husband swiping mama.
knocked her up, too.
Dr. Lynn Fynn was interviewed recently on The Conservative Review podcast with Daniel Horowitz. Omicron patients are ending up in the hospital because after the virus is gone and they’re feeling better, around day 9 they will start feeling crappy again and spike a fever. What is happening is that they are getting an opportunistic bacterial pneumonia after the viral Omicron infection. When they go to the hospital or tell the doctor that they have had COVID and are feeling bad again, the doctors are in “COVID mode” (no independent thought) and give them steroids which does nothing for bacterial pneumonia. Even worse, some of these docs try to give these patients Remdesivir (aka Rem-death-is-near) which is not appropriate under any circumstances. A course of antibiotics immediately would stop the pneumonia, but by the time these COVID doctors get through screwing around with steroids, etc., the patients truly do have a bad enough case of bacterial pneumonia that they need to be hospitalized.
The other issue is that Delta IS still out there and Delta is much more likely to put someone in the hospital, especially if they do not get early outpatient treatment, which as we know, does not happen as often as it should since the medical industrial complex is not on board with anything but The Death Gnome’s recommdations. Since there is no specific test to tell the difference between Delta and Omicron, other than symptoms, I suspect Delta hospitalizations are being blamed on Omicron since Omicron is becoming the more dominant variant. Dr Fynn said that the Delta variant tends to be in geographical pockets but it is still out there. It’s a tricky time - treat early in case it’s Delta or hope it’s Omicron? Also, Omicron responds better to HCQ rather than IVM in the early stages.
Gatorade? Overweight woman treats covid with sugar water? Brilliant!
Tylenol? Scientists now know that producing a fever is the way the body rallies the immune system against a pathogen, but God forbid that Tylenol sales fall.
Meghan, what about losing weight, Vitamin D, HCQ, Ivermectin, Zinc-Quercetin?
How could it be 100% known they had Omicron variant?
Yes Meghan, that's mild. You were not hospitalized, didn't need oxygen, and treated yourself with OTC medicine and rest. You weren't asymptomatic or just had mild cold symptoms, but this was mild. The difference is that most people are tough, and would describe your bout with omicron as "a really bad cold".
As if who’s in charge has much effect on pandemic entry and burnout.
What next, he’s going to regulate the hurricanes and snowstorms?
Government pushing off treatment in order to enrich the donors. What a great business model!
What a sow................
Why you should let a fever run its course.
Should You Treat A Fever?
https://www.goodrx.com/blog/should-you-treat-a-fever/
Fevers—can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Or at least, that’s the case once you start coming down with one. Understanding what happens inside your body when you have a fever may help you determine whether to treat yours or not.
How a fever works
It seems counterintuitive that you get the shivers when you’re feeling feverish. You’re hot, but you’re also cold? But it all starts to make sense if you take a look at what’s really going on inside.
Our bodies come with a built-in thermostat in the brain’s hypothalamus. Normally, this thermostat is set to around 98 degrees Fahrenheit. If your body dips below this “set point”—say, from wearing short sleeves during a snowstorm—your brain will turn on processes to create and retain heat. Shivering is the most obvious one; its rapid muscle micro-movements generate heat all over your body.
On the other hand, if you get too warm, you’ll start sweating. Sweat evaporating off of your skin cools you down. This happens involuntarily, and your brain is really good at keeping your body’s temperature stable.
What’s going on when you get a fever? Fever is a sign of inflammation in your body. An inflammatory response can be triggered by infection, such as a flu virus, or by immune-related diseases, cancer, or even drugs and alcohol. Certain chemicals released during inflammation turn your body’s thermostat up past 98 degrees.
So now your body is 98 degrees, but your thermostat is at (for example) 102. Your brain thinks your body is too cold, so you shiver to warm up. This is how you can have a fever and feel warm on the outside but get the chills and feel cold inside. Once you warm all the way up to your body’s new set point, you’ll feel warm to the touch, but internally your body will feel just right, so you’ll stop shivering.
A fever “breaks” when your body fights off the bug and the inflammation starts calming down. Your thermostat gets reset back to 98 degrees, but your body is still up at 102. Your brain turns on sweating and sends blood near the surface of your skin to release heat, and you cool back down to your normal body temperature.
The thermostat hypothesis explains how fever medications work. Acetaminophen, aspirin, and NSAIDs such as ibuprofen are fever reducers. Among other effects on the body, they inhibit production of prostaglandins, the chemicals that turn up the thermostat in your brain. During a fever, taking one of these medications will turn your thermostat down a notch.
The benefit of fevers
It’s true that fevers wear you down in a number of ways. They put stress on your body, your heart beats faster, you consume oxygen more quickly, and your cells consume more energy than usual. Very high temperatures (above 105 degrees) can directly damage cells.
However, fevers show up consistently across species as a response to infection, indicating an evolutionary advantage. Even cold-blooded animals that can’t internally regulate their temperature move to a warm rock when they get sick.
A higher body temperature creates an inhospitable environment for many invading bugs to grow and replicate. For example, high temperatures reduce iron levels in the blood, and bacteria have trouble reproducing. Fevers also appear to boost the immune system to fight off infection. So you feel terrible, but you’re actually in a stronger position to beat the bug.
On a population level, there’s even evidence that suppressing fevers with antipyretics leads to increased transmission of the flu virus and, therefore, more cases of the flu and more flu-related deaths.
So should you treat a fever?
While a fever is a sign of infection, it may also be part of the cure. The idea that any fever must be treated immediately with a reducer could be wrong in many cases. Fever reducers treat a symptom, not the cause of an illness, and lowering your temperature may get in the way of your body’s normal defenses and actually prolong the sickness.
Generally, a fever on its own isn’t dangerous and there’s no real need to treat it. You should, however, seek treatment for the following reasons:
You have an infant under 3 months with a fever above 100.4 degrees.
You have an infants 3to 12 months old with a fever above 102.2 degrees.
You have have a very high fever (above 105 degrees).
The fever is persistent (lasts longer than 48 to 72 hours).
Your child is unvaccinated.
You have other serious symptoms such as shortness of breath, abdominal pain, headache that doesn’t go away with over-the-counter pain medication, neck stiffness, redness or swelling in joints or extremities, coughing up blood, bloody diarrhea, recent unexplained weight loss, or unusual fatigue that doesn’t go away.
You are an IV drug user.
You have a known serious illness or are immunosuppressed.
Fevers also cause dehydration, especially if it’s associated with vomiting or diarrhea. The most important thing to remember with a fever is to stay hydrated. It’s OK if you don’t feel much like eating (that’s a normal response), but keep drinking water. Kids can drink Pedialyte. If a child urinates fewer than 3 times or an infant has fewer than 3 wet diapers in 24 hours, they’re already dehydrated and should be seen by a doctor right away.
We tend to be concerned with fevers because of how disastrous we look and feel with one. It’s more productive for you to stay home and rest, avoiding spreading germs to the rest of the office anyway. If your child has a fever and is lethargic (so sleepy that you can’t wake them) or inconsolable (can’t stop crying), you should take them to a doctor immediately.
Doctors typically won’t worry if your child (older than 3 months) has a fever of 101 degrees but is behaving normally (playing, eating, and drinking). If your child has a fever and seems fussy, they’re probably uncomfortable, just as many of us are when we’re sick – but they’re probably not seriously ill.
Tylenol is better at destroying a person’s liver than reducing a fever.
Tylenol is not an anti inflammatory.
I and a couple of friends caught the cheap beer cold and it was a nothingburger for all three of us. Just a mild cold. I’m over 50, overweight, and (controlled) high blood pressure. No ventilator. Not meds. Nothing. Not even Tylenol. Just a little bed rest. That’s all.
People need to stop being drama queens over this or we will be forever stuck on this idiotic media hyped hysteria treadmill.
Wow, she is really a porker.
“Maybe we ought to be rejoicing that Meghan has seen the light regarding idiotic Biden.”
But is she and her husband still trashing Trump?
So, did she lose any weight?
5.56mm
Obesity is a bad juju co-morbitity
And learn to live with being uncomfortable occasionally. You are not meant to be carried around on a velvet cushion and fed on fine cream. You are a person and that means you are suppose to have problems, troubles, trials and tribulations.
That is what makes you grow emotionally and mentally.
If you have had such a soft life to this point it explains what is wrong with you.
Idiot swallows all the propaganda, takes the poison vaccine, which made her symptoms worse, and then blames Biden.
Meanwhile, her kid was fine. Better get that kid vaccinated real quick! And if the kid gets sick after taking the poison, she can blame Biden again.
People who are eager to put their trust in others, instead of thinking for themselves, are just as eager to blame others when things don’t work out like they were promised.
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