GRIPES

[facthunter]

And caused more mould in the goldfish tanks. Humans have a circadian rhythm based on sunlight. Get it out of whack and you  suffer health issues. Nev

[spacesailor]

YES 

I have a cold , ( or is it hot 38.8  ) .

Since those dam clocks were changed.

Went to get covid checked But they only work half a day now.

spacesailor

[facthunter]

38.8 is too hot , Do a RAT. Nev

[red750]

When my wife and I each had cancer, we were advised - if your temperature gets to 38, seek medical help immediately. My oncologist said, "Doesn't matter if it's 3 in the morning, call me then go straight to the hospital."

[spacesailor]

I did the  R A T before Going to the Dr,s. Who gave me a script for the ' Covid testing office, which was only open half a day ,  So had to return the following day , then await the results .

Negative 

Back to Dr who gave gave me another script me an ' antibiotic script !. With instructions to perchase after three days If no improvement. 

SO

I,ll suffer & be grumpy for the next three days  LoL

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Try to bring up any mucus in the lungs. When you are steamed in the shower is a good time If it's not clear but yellowish you have an INFECTION that can rapidly  degrade to Pleurisy so keep a  check on it. Nev

[spacesailor]

YELLOWIsh ,,,

It,s

Blooody ' Karki ' , like a bit of gravel rumbling deep down my lungs. 

I,m using ' Ventolin ' two puffs every two hours which helps a lot, also ' Anticol ' which soothes qthe throat. 

Plus ,the wife keeps making me take a couple of ' Paracetamol ' every three or four hours.

Dr said " Rynovirus "  I don,t feel like arguing ,  I need some ' warm sunny days ',

spacesaior

 

[facthunter]

Get some vitamin C into you

[old man emu]

Some Vicks dissolved in a bowl of steaming water. Head over the bowl and towel over the head. Then breathe deeply of the vapours.

 

Here's a real old cure that saved a family from the Spanish Flu back in 1919: Get a sugar cube and soak a drop of kerosene into it. Not a splash, just a drop. Then pop the cube into your mouth and let it dissolve like a lozenge. According to my source, it only took one dose to affect a cure.

[onetrack]

Oh, No! Not the old WW1 folk-medicine quackery? I can understand how people get caught up in this - but kerosene as a virus cure? I don't think so. The Vicks treatment is definitely helpful to clear congested airways. The Rhinovirus is simply a fancy name for the common cold.

 

I haven't had a cold for many years, but I caught a good dose of it in early August, it makes you feel like crap for 4 days, but there's not much you can do except let it run its course over that time, and simply take some painkillers or lozenges to sooth the sinuses and airways.

 

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/victor_dominocielo_how_folk_medicine_gets_started_20140331

[Jerry_Atrick]

Who on earth would willingley consume even a drop of kero? Where's the Glycol?

Edited October 7, 2022 by Jerry_Atrick

[spacesailor]

For that Common cold ,.

A big dose of .

Gin , Vodka , whiskey , with a twist of lemon and Honey !.

Half pint hot toddy .

Some people actually put water in it.Even if it doesn,t cure anything.  It makes you Feel great .

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

We used to take a couple of drops of chloridine in a glass of water to fix the trots. I think about ten drops was a fatal dose.

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Who on earth would willingley consume even a drop of kero? Where's the Glycol?

One drop is 0.05 ml. You've taken in more sucking to start a petrol syphon.

[willedoo]

4 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Plus ,the wife keeps making me take a couple of ' Paracetamol ' every three or four hours.

I hope you've got a good liver, spacey. The recommended maximum of eight paracetamol in 24 hours is there because of the risk of liver damage if exceeded for too long. Even more risk if you're combining it with other liver worrying medications like statins.

[onetrack]

Strychnine used to be a common medicinal treatment for centuries, too - along with the associated multitude of strychnine poisonings - especially children. It's been a great rat poison since the 1800's.

 

"As late as the 1980s, strychnine could still be found in over the counter consumer products such as digestive aids, sedatives, stimulants, and cold remedies, although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered its removal from food and medicines in 1962" ...

 

Probably somewhat surprisingly, there's still medicinal use of strychnine, in the treatment of painful, involuntary muscle spasms, particularly around the spinal cord. But anyone who administers strychnine must be fully trained in the recognition of strychnine poisoning and its treatment.

 

Edited October 7, 2022 by onetrack

[spacesailor]

YES   BUT  ,.

All the' kero ' & ' petrol ' you injested left your body soon after .

Now the new poison has a deadly twist !.

It accumulate,s in your body taking a few years off your longevity. 

Great fof the government's,  so all that ' toxit waste ' is now wrapped in carcasses., and safe to bury .

spacesailor

[Marty_d]

Spacey, it's good that you're taking paracetamol which helps get your temperature down, but as Willedoo pointed out - there is a maximum daily dose and don't exceed it.

What also helps is the normal old fashioned stuff - drinking enough water, taking it easy, etc.

Talking of alcoholic remedies, my favourite when feeling a bit crook is the hot toddy - a shot of rum or whiskey in a glass, a spoon of brown sugar, a slice of lemon studded with about 10 cloves, a squirt of the lemon juice and boiling water.  Mix and sip.  Probably no medicinal value but it certainly doesn't make you feel any worse!

[old man emu]

12 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Who on earth would willingley consume even a drop of kero

Spacey has a point of some validity talking about "new poisons" accumulating in the body. That which by any other name would smell as sweet(?) has been known in some form or other since the Chinese made use of petroleum for lighting lamps and heating homes as early as 1500 BC. I think that is a suitably long testing period.

 

 Liquid paraffin is a more viscous and highly refined form of kerosene. Petroleum is said to have been used as a medicine since 400 BC, and has been mentioned in the texts of classical writers Herodotus, Plutarch, Dioscorides, Pliny, and others. It was used extensively by early Arabians and was important in early Indian medicine. Its first use internally is attributed to Robert A. Chesebrough, who patented it in 1872 for the manufacture of a "new and useful product from petroleum." After Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, who was then Chief Surgeon of Guy's Hospital, recommended it as a treatment for intestinal stasis and chronic constipation in 1913, liquid paraffin gained more popularity. Liquid paraffin is primarily used as a paediatric laxative in medicine and is a popular treatment for constipation. And research seems to indicate that  even at massive levels of ingestion - more that anyone could tolerate per day - it does not cause cancer.

[onetrack]

Heavy metals accumulation in the body is the major health concern - and the amount of areas where we can acquire heavy metals ingestion, is large.

Most "male" occupations that involve heavy physical work, ingestion of welding fumes, painting, absorption of most petroleum products, dusts of every type, grinding particles, chemical solutions - all lead to some level of heavy metals absorption. We can even acquire it from utensils and their coatings or constituents.

 

To treat heavy metals buildup in the body, one undergoes a process known as chelation ("ke-lay-shun"). This involves pumping a reactive chemical through an IV drip into the bloodstream, where it reacts with the buildup of contaminants and binds with them. The end product is then excreted from the body, taking away the heavy metals.

 

A common chemical used in chelation is EDTA - Ethylenediaminetetraacetic ("ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic") acid. This is a reactive aminopolycarboxylic acid which binds with mostly iron and calcium ions, which have formed various levels of plaque and deposits in the arteries and body organs. It's an effective treatment, but it must be administered under intense supervision, and with great care.

 

There used to be a local old Scottish doctor named Dr Scrimgeour, who specialised in and promoted chelation simply for its health benefits. SWMBO went to him numerous times and indulged in his chelation courses, mostly to try and see if she could gain the upper hand over her chronic arthritis. She has a big thing about reducing inflammation in the body.

 

She reckoned the treatment left her feeling great, and was quite happy to continue doing the treatments - however, Dr Scrimgeour retired at around 73 about 10 years ago, and the bloke who took over his business was a complete dud, with no interpersonal skills, and general incompetence.

He kept SWMBO waiting for 3 hrs once, with no explanations or apologies - and you don't do that to SWMBO without getting your head ripped off, she regards it as the ultimate personal insult, and the rudest behaviour you can indulge in.

 

So she stopped the chelation treatment, and has been unable to find anyone local again, doing it with the skill and charisma of Dr Scrimgeour. There are a lot of divisions of opinion amongst the medical fraternity as to the long term heart/health benefits of chelation - but SWMBO claims she gained nothing but total health benefit from her chelation treatments with Dr Scrimgeour.

 

Edited October 8, 2022 by onetrack

[facthunter]

You can also have inadequate "Trace elements" Due to soil depletion and food refining (Over processing). Typical is iodine deficiency. Vitamin D in winter with older people etc, Nev

[spacesailor]

One missing trace ' eliment ' is what gave my ancestors ' Derby Neck ' ,  (  goiter  )

Hopefully you have all spotted " added Iodin ' .  On your ' table salt '

That is a missing trace eliment from Derbyshire soil.  ( too much rain !) .

spacesailor

Edited October 8, 2022 by spacesailor
Missed word

[old man emu]

Cattle on the Cumberland Plain, which is the Sydney Metropolitan area suffered from cobalt deficiency. The treatment was to administer a cobalt pellet by swallowing and let it tumble around in the rumen slowly eroding and delivering cobalt to the animal. The current treatment has a much greater economic return. Sell of the cattle then sell off the land for housing. 

[Old Koreelah]

On 08/10/2022 at 4:11 PM, old man emu said:

Cattle on the Cumberland Plain, which is the Sydney Metropolitan area suffered from cobalt deficiency. The treatment was to administer a cobalt pellet by swallowing and let it tumble around in the rumen slowly eroding and delivering cobalt to the animal. The current treatment has a much greater economic return. Sell of the cattle then sell off the land for housing. 

My mum’s sister kept their Cumberland Plains dairy farms until recently. In 1971 I operated loaders on their Moorebank farm.

”Cow Pastures” was a local name for the good grazing land just SW of Sydney’s CBD.

[old man emu]

Sizing of clothing.

 

If you are not built like a match stick, buying clothes to fit is a bothersome task, simply because the sizing labels bear no relationship to other commonly used measurement systems - metric or imperial.

 

There is an International Standard for just about manufactured product we use, including clothing. In Australia there is one for women's clothing and another for infants/children, but not one for men. If a bloke needs to get clothes for the fuller figure, larger than a girth of 44 inches (112 cm), you enter the murky world of the X-men. Sizes range from XX to 8XL, but if you have prepared yourself by obtaining your chest and waist measurements in inches or centimetres, how do you convert those to the X-system and vice versa?

 

Another problem is "vanity sizing". Vanity sizing, or size inflation, is the phenomenon of ready-to-wear clothing of the same nominal size becoming bigger in physical size over time. Although more common in women's apparel, vanity sizing occurs in men's clothing as well. The nominal waist size on the label may be quite a bit smaller than the actual waist, leading to baggy britches. The phenomenon has been noticed in the United Kingdom, where a 2011 study found misleading labels on more than half of checked items of clothing. The UK's Chief Medical Officer has suggested that vanity sizing has contributed to the normalisation of obesity in society.