How to Get Rid of the Flu | Influenza Management and Prevention

Question: I started with a tickly cough on Tuesday which turned into a chesty cough on Wednesday.  By Thursday, I felt weak and slept for 15 hours. Last night I had flu symptoms with sneezing, fever and still chesty cough. Today there is a lot of headache and chesty cough.

Answer:

With swine flu on the upswing, it would be advisable to get a test for it as soon as possible. Diagnosis of flu-like symptoms has become highly crucial.

Get a throat swab done.

Do you have watering of eyes?
Discharge from the nose?
Fever?
Nausea or diarrhoea?

Avoid places that are too crowded.

Influenza management and Prevention:

• Boost your immune system. Eat well, although you might have a poor appetite.
• Soups, porridges, rice gruels, barley water, milk, pulses are foods that will give you lots of strength and provide good resistance to influenza.
• Embark on a fluid diet until the fever subsides.
• Gradually start onto soft, easy to digest foods.
• Avoid – banana, fried food, sugar and yogurt. They trigger a bout of coughing and irritate the throat.
• Take 2 limes with 2 spoons honey and 2 spoons powdered pepper. This combination helps prevent complications.
• Hot water gargles are a must.
• Turmeric has wonderful anti-septic properties. Consume hot milk to which a spoon of turmeric has been added.
• A mixture made from – cardamom, cinnamon, pepper and clove powders, mixed with honey is an excellent expectorant.
• Drosera, a homoeopathy remedy cures cough instantaneously. Take 5 pills every 2 hours.

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