overtheedge
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Now i know lots of us with ME are unusually susceptible to illnesses such as fevers/colds, for me they come once every few months and set me back a ways energy wise, anytime someone in the house is sick i get it, only its worse for me than it is for everyone else.
What do you all do to either prevent getting sick or to soften the blow of an illness that has already started working its evil on you?
I've heard a number of people mention Vitamin C in higher than usual doses, does that work for anyone.
For my part I'll say that many of the times I've become ill within the past few years have been due to meat going bad, someone leaves the food out too long before we start eating and what is indigestion to the rest is sickness for me.
The fridge went bad once and didn't keep the food cold enough and so any meat kept in there overnight went bad, usually wouldn't taste abnormal either but would get me sick nonetheless. The mold growing on meat that had been cooked the day before tipped me off but not before two or three fevers
Many of the times I've been thawing meat in water and water leaked into the bag I've developed a fever shortly after, at least three times fevers one month apart, maybe a 1/3rd chance of the water or something that was in the container that thawed the water would cause an illness if it leaked into the bag, even when I would clean the container thoroughly before filling it with water it still happened
They probly sound like nothing when explained this way but when you don't know which of the dozens of things you do is causing you to have fevers every month it can be really scary. Many of these times the gut symptoms were minimal and I might not have known it was coming from food if food type things being eliminated from my habits hadn't brought about a reduction in the frequency of illnesses i get
I've learned to be really quick to throw anything away that is suspect.
A year or so ago something I got from the store was contaminated but didn't have any abnormal taste to it, slight gut symptoms and the way I got sick again in the same exact way immediately after I got back to being well while everyone I live with who could have brought me any illness was out of town tipped me off, I probly should have thrown all the foods i had eaten in the day or two before getting sick away to prevent the reinfection that occurred, live n learn
All the best
What do you all do to either prevent getting sick or to soften the blow of an illness that has already started working its evil on you?
I've heard a number of people mention Vitamin C in higher than usual doses, does that work for anyone.
For my part I'll say that many of the times I've become ill within the past few years have been due to meat going bad, someone leaves the food out too long before we start eating and what is indigestion to the rest is sickness for me.
The fridge went bad once and didn't keep the food cold enough and so any meat kept in there overnight went bad, usually wouldn't taste abnormal either but would get me sick nonetheless. The mold growing on meat that had been cooked the day before tipped me off but not before two or three fevers
Many of the times I've been thawing meat in water and water leaked into the bag I've developed a fever shortly after, at least three times fevers one month apart, maybe a 1/3rd chance of the water or something that was in the container that thawed the water would cause an illness if it leaked into the bag, even when I would clean the container thoroughly before filling it with water it still happened
They probly sound like nothing when explained this way but when you don't know which of the dozens of things you do is causing you to have fevers every month it can be really scary. Many of these times the gut symptoms were minimal and I might not have known it was coming from food if food type things being eliminated from my habits hadn't brought about a reduction in the frequency of illnesses i get
I've learned to be really quick to throw anything away that is suspect.
A year or so ago something I got from the store was contaminated but didn't have any abnormal taste to it, slight gut symptoms and the way I got sick again in the same exact way immediately after I got back to being well while everyone I live with who could have brought me any illness was out of town tipped me off, I probly should have thrown all the foods i had eaten in the day or two before getting sick away to prevent the reinfection that occurred, live n learn
All the best