Thread: THE DREADED LURGIE...(flue)

Originally Posted by Eevo

Wraithe, your logic and good arguments are not welcome on the internet

The problem is that posts like that based on individual experience and anecdotal evidence are read by some gullible people as evidence of an infallible method of prevention or cure.

If I were to present a similar argument about my own experience it would go something like this:
I have not had the flu for over 40 years in spite of the fact that for at least 25 of those years I was regularly surrounded by thirty children, many of whom were sniffing and sneezing.
For a lot of that time (until whiteboards were installed in classrooms), I handled sticks of chalk. Clearly there is some beneficial effect of chalk dust that doctors and big pharma don't want us to know about.

Unfortunately if I had presented that argument in a different context there are some people who are so determined to believe that doctors know less than anonymous internet posters, that they would believe me and repost my "evidence".

While doctors occasionally get it wrong, the fact remains that advice from a doctor or some medical body like the CDC is much more likely to be right than the recommendation of someone with no training, no qualifications and no understanding of medicine.

Originally Posted by vnx205

The problem is that posts like that based on individual experience and anecdotal evidence are read by some gullible people as evidence of an infallible method of prevention or cure.

Originally Posted by vnx205

While doctors occasionally get it wrong, the fact remains that advice from a doctor or some medical body like the CDC is much more likely to be right than the recommendation of someone with no training, no qualifications and no understanding of medicine.

I am more than happy that the surgeons and doctors at Royal Perth Hospital put my shattered and ripped up arm/hand together again instead of some unskilled internet poster having a crack at it

Vaccinations and inoculations WORK, Simple as that folks.
Maybe Not 100% effective But they are much more effective than home remedies and voodoo.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

There are numerous varieties of the flu, so the vaccination only works against the most common ones. This year the vaccine covered four flu versions, including one which carried with it very high temperatures, vomiting and diarrhoea. Apparently the success rate has been about 60%, which is lower than in previous years. Even if you get sick, people who have been vaccinated usually recover faster. This is because the flu vaccine, like all vaccines, acts by stimulating the body's natural resistance. For example, I had a couple of miserable days and bounced back, but my wife, who didn't have the flu shot, was knocked out for two weeks.
As for success rates, I also had the rabies vaccine, for unrelated reasons, and so far have not caught rabies, so that's a 100% success rate!

If I spent my working life surrounded by dozens of other people's kids, I'd want a rabies vaccine, too.

Originally Posted by gusthedog

Without an emoticon I can't tell if you're joking Eevo. Hopefully you are. Or do you believe the earth is flat?

Another lone ranger is a flat earther. If the steam driven rocket actually leaves the ground I bet he is heading for a Darwin ward
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On the old and young. I had the flu 22 years ago. Two weeks! Collapsed and fell though the plaster in a rented house. Happily get and pay for a jab every year since. That said this year has been a shocker. My Docs are still seeing cases today.

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Originally Posted by Ausfree

Anybody had the flue this year, I received a flue vaccination early in the winter season thinking I would be protected from the flue....mostly. Being a slight asthmatic I watch the flue season very closely. Anyrate to cut a long story short I have come down with a full blown dose of the flue which has brought on a full-on asthma attack, the likes which I haven't had since I was a child in the 1950's.

I now rattle with the various pills including, Sone 25mg., Amoxycillin 500mg., Ventolin ( haven't used Ventolin in 30 years) and Bricanyl, as well as other tablets I am taking for reflux etc. When I walk you can hear me rattle from all the pills.

I am hearing stories that the gummit in all its wisdom bought a cheap version of the flue vaccine to save a lousy $2 a shot. I may as well not have had a flue shot.

Thoughts anybody!!!!!

Down here, they are calling it the 100 day cough. I think I got more than my share. Been coughing since April.

I had my last (and first...) flu jab around 10 years ago...and 12 months later came down with a savage bout of ... flu, then two more visitations. in the next year. According to my colleagues, this company-funded benevolence gave many of them similar 'gifts'....

I don't believe the vaccine gives anywhere near the protection it's supporters claim, and recent observations show the chicken eggs as a growth medium could be the problem, - it triggers mutations... !
My approach since then is to do all and everything to enhance the immune system Simple things like adequate, restful sleep, through to vitamin supplements, - The Usual Suspects, such as 'gram' doses of Vit.-C, Vit. D, E, and B group. Not a huge financial burden.
Seems to have worked, 5 years of driving 59 seat schoolbuses full of wheezing sneezing coughing kids... Having CVD - several stents and recently CABG x 5 - staying healthy is even more important.
Your Mileage May Vary !

Linus Pauling took > 14 GRAMS (dv) of vitamin C per day, and lived to 93. I think he was on to something valuable...

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Originally Posted by superquag

Linus Pauling took > 14 GRAMS (dv) of vitamin C per day, and lived to 93. I think he was on to something valuable...

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My mother never took a Vitamin C tablet in her life and lived to 94.

It looks as if that Vitamin C cost Linus Pauling a year of his life.