Could this be the beginning of swine flu? I feel -?
weaker than usual kinda like I’m losing my balance when I walk,
Headache that feels like lots of pressure
slight fever
Feels like a ball of dust in the back of my throat when I wake up
no cough yet
no other symptoms yet
It sounds like you may be getting a cold to me. It’s possible that it could be the flu, though, so be watchful of your symptoms. It’s difficult to tell the difference between the regular flu and swine flu. Keep an eye on your temperature to make sure it doesn’t get too high and take Tylenol for the fever/achiness. Watch out for worrisome symptoms (very high fever, disorientation, constant nausea/vomiting that doesn’t cease after 48-72 hours, minimal urine output, etc.).
Most importantly, trust your instincts. If you end up getting very sick and think you need to go to the ER then go immediately. It’s better to be safe than sorry. Get plenty of rest, drink plenty of fluids, and eat well to try and boost your immune system so you can fight off your illness.
Could this be pregnancy or the first symptoms of flu or a virus?
I had sex about 6 days. And then, suddenly, in the midst of my dream I woke up very sick. I wondered if I could be a sign that I am pregnant or I'm just going to have the flu or a stomach virus?
Well do you have any other cause nausea signs is a sign of pregnancy, you may have constipation, heartburn, frequent urination, I would do a pregnancy test to make sure or just go to the doctor and explain the situation and he / She will give a pregnancy test there .. Good luck!
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Pregnancy Vomiting And Nausea - Your Symptoms During Morning Sickness
Pregnancy vomiting and nausea changes the way a pregnant woman goes about her day. Things that would normally have given her comfort, are now throwing her off.
Before I was pregnant, I’d wake up around 5:30 in the morning to the smell of coffee brewing; coffee that my husband always made before going to work, and had been doing so every morning for the previous three years.
Normally, I would smell its wonderful aroma, smile, and go back to sleep. Once I go pregnant, however, it changed. No longer was the aroma wonderful - it was awful and fowl.
The first morning it happened, I thought someone had lit a paper bag full of dog excrement on fire and stomped it out on our bedroom floor (sorry about the image, but it’s the only thing that I could equate it to.) My stomach churned with every whiff, and even though the smell was horrible to me, I couldn’t stop sniffing.
When I got up to investigate, I felt a wave of nausea overtake me. I quickly ran to the bathroom and vomited. I knew that I was pregnant, so I wasn’t worried about the flu. Still, it was a lot worse than I thought (or read) it was going to be.
Sure, I had read somewhere that it affected most pregnant women (88 percent) and that the symptoms could be worse in the morning, which is where the term morning sickness had come from. That had given me comfort at the time because I figured that this wouldn’t continue throughout my day.
Boy, was I wrong. That first day was a real eye-opener for me. After vomiting a couple more times when I had smelled that coffee, I went back to bed. I stayed there until 11:30 because I thought I could wait this thing out.
I did feel a lot better when I got up to go to the bathroom. I was able to shower, dress, and go downstairs to have some breakfast. I normally would have some oatmeal, but when I opened the container, the smell of the oatmeal sent me running for the bathroom.
My point with this story is that my usual routine changed once I became pregnant. It’s something you will have to do to survive the joys of morning sickness. In order for you to survive this without being miserable the entire time, here are some areas where changes might need to be made:
When you go to bed and when you are able to get up.
How quickly you can get up in the morning.
Whether or not you’ll need to eat before you get out of bed.
What foods will trigger your nausea and vomiting.
If you’ve scoffed at alternative medicine like acupuncture and acupressure, you need to reconsider.
What items are important to have with you at all times to keep the nausea monsters at bay.
This isn’t an extensive list, but it gets your thoughts going in the right direction. Things (like getting up in the morning) that you may have taken for granted previously, now might need to be planned with precision. Planning ahead is going to be your greatest weapon against pregnancy vomiting and nausea, so if you haven’t started yet, there’s no time like right now.
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They are currently working on vaccines for high blood pressure, swine flu, scarlet fever, AIDS, RSV…?
West Nile Virus, and probably more that we don’t know about. There are also vaccines currently on the market that are not routine in the U.S. including typhoid, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, anthrax and japanese encephalitis.
If they eventually add all of these to your child’s recommended immunization schedule, will you still get all the recommended vaccines on time? When do you say it’s too many? If they wanted your child to get 10 combo shots for 30 different diseases at every well child visit, would you do it? Where would you draw the line?
Good question. I drew the line when I read the ingredients and how vaccines are made.
I can’t believe people can ever think its ok to brew up such a concoction and say “hey let’s start injecting this in children as young as 1 day!!” Just gross.
I choose not to inject my child with such toxins that aren’t even guaranteed they work. What’s the whole purpose if people are still catching these things even after being vaccinated.
Pretty soon they’re gonna come out with a vaccine for butt itch.
May even be routine for kids so they don’t have to take the time to itch their butt. .. What a hassle. Parents will love that one.
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Treating colds and the flu with Classical Chinese Medicine
Is there any cure for colds or the flu, the answer is “ Yes” if you are asking this question from an authentic Chinese Medicine practitioner. Thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine already knew how to effectively treat colds and the flu. I would tend to believe that most western medicine doctor would tell you “ No” and say there is no cure for colds and the flu. The only thing that you can do is to rest and drink more fluids, enduring all uncomfortable symptoms, which should be getting better when your immune system wins the battle. Some people may take some over-the-counter drugs like acetaminophen and ibuprofen to reduce the uncomfortable symptoms such as headache, body aching and sore throat. Usually it may take about a week to recover from a cold, and a little longer for the flu if you do not receive any treatment, but with an accurate diagnosis and treatment from a well trained authentic Chinese medicine practitioner, most uncomfortable symptoms including headache, fever, chills, body aches, sore throat, fatigue, etc. , should be already better just with one or two cups of herbal tea , You should be recovered within 1-2 days.
What happens if I do not get treatments for colds and the flu?
Due to uncomfortable symptoms, you may not able to do anything other than getting some rest. Children, the elderly, and people with chronic disease or weak immune systems may quite easily get some other complications such as sinusitis, bronchitis, ear infection, asthma attack or even pneumonia. A residual pathogenic substance such as wind cold energy, viruses, etc, could become the source of any future health problems.
Prevention for colds and the flu with Acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
Gui Zhi Tang is the most important formula in the classical medical text “ Shang Han Lun”, which translated in English means ‘On Cold Damage’ or ‘Treatise on Cold Injury’. This formula can be taken regularly to harmonize your Yin and Yang, and to strengthen your immune system. During cold and flu season, getting acupuncture once a week to strengthen the body immune system, it is also a very good way to prevent colds and the flu.
How does Chinese medicine treat colds and flu?
If you are just getting a cold with minor symptoms, sometimes with just acupuncture , you can recover very quickly. But if you are getting the flu with severe symptoms, the herbal medicine is needed to help you to relieve all uncomfortable symptoms within 1-2 days.
An authentic Chinese medicine does not prescribe the formulas for colds and the flu according to what kind of viruses you get. The formulas are chosen by what kind of symptoms you have. The treatment principle is to expel pathogens such as viruses or wind cold energy through sweating, urination, and strengthening your immune system.
Here are six most common used classical formulas to treat colds and flu
Gui Zhi Tang
Gui Zhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi Cassiae)…10 g Shao Yao (Radix Paeoniae)…10 g Sheng Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Officinalis Recens)…2 slices Da Zao (Fructus Zizyphi Jujubae)…10 dates Zhi Gan Cao (Honey fried Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis)…10g
Cook these raw herbs using 6 cups of water over a good sized flame. Cook down to 2 cups of water. An adult drinks one cup of herbal tea every 3 hour with an empty stomach. For kids, just give them a half a cup each time. You will sweat a little bit after taking herbal tea. Eating some hot steamed rice soup will be helpful to increase the effectiveness of this herbal tea.
When to use this formula:
Main symptoms are sweating, aversion to wind, muscle aches, with a little bit fever and loss of appetite. Usually, after taking the herbal tea, all uncomfortable symptoms should be gone and your appetite will return the following day. This means that you already have recovered from a cold or the flu.
Ma Huang Tang
Ma Huang (Herba Ephedrae)…5g Gui Zhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi Cassiae)…10g Xing Ren (Semen Pruni Armeniacae)…5g Zhi Gan Cao (Honey fried Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis)…10g
Cook these raw herbs using 3 cups of water under a good sized flame. Cook down to 1 cups of water. Drink this cup of herbal tea with empty stomach. If you have any record of heart disease, you cannot take this formula.
When to use this formula:
Main symptoms are feeling the chills, fever, muscle and joint aches, without any sweating.
Ge Gen Tang
Ge Gen (Radix Puerariae or Kudzu)…..15g Ma Huang (Hb.Ephedrae)……5g Gui Zhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi Cassiae)…10 g Shao Yao (Radix Paeoniae)…10 g Sheng Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Officinalis Recens)…2 slices Da Zao (Fructus Zizyphi Jujubae)…10 dates Zhi Gan Cao (Honey fried Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis)…10g
Cook these raw herbs using 6 cups of water under a good sized flame. Cook down to 2 cups of water. An adult drinks one cup of herbal tea every 3 hour with an empty stomach. For kids, just give them a half a cup each time. You will sweat a little bit after taking the herbal tea.
When to use this formula:
Main symptoms are stiff neck and upperback, headache, aversion to wind, muscle aches, sore throat, thirsty, etc. Usually kids can easily get this kind of cold or the flu.
Da Qing Long Tang
Ma Huang (Herba Ephedrae)…10g Gui Zhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi Cassiae)…15g Sheng Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Officinalis Recens)…2 slices Shi Gao ( Gypsum) …..20g Xing Ren (Semen Pruni Armeniacae)…10g Zhi Gan Cao (Honey fried Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis)…10g Da Zao (Fructus Zizyphi Jujubae)…10 dates
Cook these raw herbs using 6 cups of water with a good sized flame. Cook down to 2 cups of water. An adult drinks one cup of herbal tea every 3 hour with an empty stomach. For kids, just give them a half a cup each time. You will sweat a little bit after taking the herbal tea.
When to use this formula:
Main symptoms are fever, coughing with thicker yellow phlegm, body aches, thirsty, loss of appetite, no sweating, feeling a chill, but feels very hot inside of body. In ancient time, this formula is the most popular one to treat epidemic diseases
Xiao Qing Long Tang
Ma Huang (Herba Ephedrae)…10g Gui Zhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi Cassiae)…15g Gan Jiang (dried Rhizoma Zingiberis Officinalis)…5g Xi Xin (Herba cum Radice Asari)…5g Wu Wei Zi (Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis)…10g Bai Shao (Radix Paeoniae Laciflorae)…10g Ban Xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae Ternatae)…10g Zhi Gan Cao (honey fried Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis)…10 g
Cook these raw herbs using 6 cups of water under a good sized flame. Cook down to 2 cups of water. An adult drinks one cup of herbal tea every 3 hour with empty stomach. For kids, just give them a half a cup each time. You will sweat a little bit after taking the herbal tea.
When to use this formula:
Main symptoms are fever, coughing with watery white phlegm, body aches, itchy throat, no thirsty, no sweating, feeling very chills inside of body.
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
Chai Hu (Radix bupleuri)…15g Huang Qin (Radix scutellariae)…15g Ban Xia (Rhizome pinelliae ternatae)…15g Sheng Jiang (Rhizome zingiberis officinalis recens)…2 slices Dang shen (Radix Codonopsis )…15g Zhi Gan Cao (Honey fried radix glycyrrhizae uralensis)…10g Da Zao (Fructus Zizyphi Jujubae)…10 dates
Cook these raw herbs using 6 cups of water under a good sized flame. Cook down to 2 cups of water. An adult drinks one cup of herbal tea before breakfast and dinner with empty stomach. For kids, just give them a half a cup each time.
When to use this formula:
Main symptoms are the alternate attacks of chills and fever, feeling of fullness and discomfort in chest and the upper lateral region of the abdomen, and nausea. Any women who get a cold or the flu during the menstrual cycle, do not use other formulas. This is the only formula to be used to recover the sickness.
What does Tang’s acupuncture office offer to treat a cold and the flu
We offer the diagnosis and treatment for colds and the flu at half price of regular acupuncture and herbal consultation.
Acupuncture is only $30, and the herbal prescription fee is $15 and one herbal pack is $10. Usually two herbal packs are needed.
Reference: The treatment for colds and flu from Dr. Hai Shi Ni
Note: This article is for educational purpose. Please get the diagnosis from your Chinese medicine doctor to get the customized formula to treat your cold or the flu.
Written by Sophia Tang
About the Author
Sophia Tang is a licensed Acupuncturist and Classical Chinese medicine practitioner. She has a masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the United States. Her background includes:
Involvement in the healing arts for over a decade.
Devotion to a master in practicing energy healing and spiritual cultivation for 8 years.
Many years of education, training and practicing in different modalities of healing including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, energy healing, massage therapy and holistic health consultation.
A follower of a great master Hai-Sha Ni in practicing Classical Chinese Medicine (Jing Fang )
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We’ve recently gotten cases of swine flu around our area, however I am a bit more afraid because I am Type one diabetic/ juvenile diabetes. I’m 19 years old and quite fit, I eat well and try to maintain my bloodsugars as close as possible on the insulin pump. Do you think if i’ve gotten it i’d be more susceptible to death or complications even with my healthy lifestyle?
what can i do as a diabetic to prevent?
ahh help!
Relax I’m type 1 using an insulin pump and taking immune suppressants to control another auto-immune disorder and I’m not freaking out. Just take the normal precautions you would during flu season.
They have planned to take kids from schools for Mass Vaccinations and Quarantines WAKE UP !
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