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To: Gennie

I am not a doctor.

I have had severe food poisoning that I thought was something else and had diarrhea and vomiting for several days.

When I finally went to the DR they gave me 1 bag of saline and told me to drink as much Gatorade as I could. I am sure anything with electrolytes would suffice. I drank gallons of it. I don’t really like it to this day.

This was all it took to put me back right so to answer you directly if I were to get Ebola or have a family member get it I would have them powering down fluids by mouth as much as they could stand.

In the case of severe immediate dehydration IV is the quickest way to get fluids in. Overrun hospitals are a problem.

My understanding of Ebola is that it has an incubation period of several days or a week. If you are in an area where you think it is likely that you may have contact I would start immediately getting fluids in to be fully hydrated when the diarrhea and vomiting starts.

Keep it up. Use vegetable juice or blended foods with some sugar to make them palatable.

Hospitals are necessary but any good doctor will get you out of the hospital as soon as possible because the chance of infection there is higher than anywhere else. If you never have to go so much the better.

That said, IV’s are not rocket science. Bags of saline can be had. Home use is not unheard of.


42 posted on 09/23/2014 2:52:04 PM PDT by GOPBiker (Thank a veteran, with a smile, every chance you get. You do more good than you can know.)
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To: GOPBiker

That works well until you slough the lining of your gut from hemorrhagic fever and can no longer absorb fluids or anything else. This is not just diarrhea and vomiting, it causes key organs to shut down entirely. And you bleed to death internally.... Gatorade doesn’t help that very much. Neither for that matter does IV fluids.


53 posted on 09/23/2014 7:52:42 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: GOPBiker

incubation is approximately 21 days


55 posted on 09/23/2014 8:04:13 PM PDT by SisterK (oh the optics)
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To: GOPBiker

“That said, IV’s are not rocket science. Bags of saline can be had. Home use is not unheard of.”

We are using 250mL bags whenever possible or just using saline locks due to shortages of 1L bags. This has been going on for months.


56 posted on 09/24/2014 4:25:28 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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