Stomach flu treatments, please?

Question

I haven't had the stomach flu since I was 11. I am 20 now, and it has finally struck again! I am on Pepto, Tylenol, and a prescription for it. But, I still feel AWFUL. The very idea of food is sending me running to the bathroom, so I haven't been able to eat anything, but I am staying hydrated. Does anyone have any at-home feel better tricks to share? Thanks.

Answer 1

THere is a diet that we learn about for children with "stomach flu's". This is to rest the digestive system and give it time to heal. It's called the BRAT diet. Starting with Bannanas, Rice, Apples, and Toast, you eat just a bit starting at the beginning then wait, if your stomach can handle that then move on to the next item. As for home remedies I have heard everything from Sprite, to lemon and honey. Make sure that your staying hydrated with Water or even a sports drink (they have sugar and salt and stuff in them that can actually irritate your stomach even more) Soda is not considered something to hydrate with. Good luck.

Answer 2

There is no particular treatment. Really. I just had it a month a go. You won't be able to eat anything so don't force yourself.

You should drink small sips of liquid such as watermelon juice together with the white portion (my doctor prescribed it). You have to wait for a day or two to be able to eat solid food again. Just rest a lot because you will feel sleepy all the time.

If you are interested to know more, check this out.

http://scc.uchicago.edu/stomachflu.htm

Hope you get well soon!

Answer 3

The best way I've always dealt with it is to starve it out. Drink plenty of fluids but no solids for a few days try clear broths and gatorade will help restore the electrolytes. Then when you feel up to it try introducing saltine crackers and plain toast then gradually work your way up to solid food again I sympathize I hate the stomache flu too Good Luck

Answer 4

Hi Sam

Here a few answers to help you.

Cause
Flu is an advanced cold condition. A body catches flu when it is full of waste matter and toxins through lowered vitality and by body exposure to cold and dampness. This is due to mucus in a weak spot in the body--in this case, the respiratory tract. The contributing factors to this weakness are shallow breathing and a lack of oxygen to that particular area.

Herbal Aids
1.General Instructions: The fastest way in eliminating this body condition is by proper diet and rest, and by flushing the body system with diaphoretics. Take a ginger bath (using up to a pound of ginger to a tub of water), or a mustard-cayenne bath with cold sheeting. The antispasmodic agents relax the constringed cell structure, loosen and discharge the mucoid matter. Fruit juices (especially hot lemon juice) should be taken alternately with the herbal teas. After the cleansing crisis, the body system should be built up with tonic herbs and with nutritious, non-mucus forming foods.

2.Colds, Pneumonia, Flu: See formula using pennyroyal and elder flowers.

3.Peppermint and Elder Flowers: For one of the greatest flu remedies there is, see formula using peppermint and elder flowers.

4.When You Feel the Flu Coming On: Another simple procedure for if you feel a cold or flu coming on in the evening, use boneset tea. This herb is a nervine stimulant, tonic, diaphoretic, diuretic, and in large doses, emetic, aperient. Here is another wonderful remedy for breaking a chill in intermittent fever (so-called break-bone fever), muscular rheumatism, bronchitis, influenza, dyspepsia, sore throat, etc.

5.Dr. Christopher's Composition Powder: As Dr. Nowell, our instructor at the Dominion Herbal College, Let. of Vancouver, British Columbia gave in our textbook, quote: "We have made and used composition powder for over forty years. When we state we regularly mixed it in batches of sixty pounds the student will readily see that we have had at least some experience with it. As a remedy in colds, beginning of fevers, flu, hoarseness, sluggish circulation, colic, cramps, etc. We believe it has done more good than any other single preparation ever known to man."

6.Dr. Christopher's Anti-Infection formula:composed of plantain, black walnut, golden seal root, bugle weed, marshmallow root, and lobelia is great for the cleansing of the lymph system as well as purifying the blood and fighting infection.


Testimonials
1.Overnight Recovery for Flu: If the array of so-called remedies of orthodox medicine were any good, there would be no sick left. How different is this to the simple methods of the old-time herbalist. He saw a patient who was fevered. He did not even take the temperature. Often he did not know what a clinical thermometer was. But he knew there was fever. He placed a handful of yarrows in a jug, poured a pint of boiling water over it, and after allowing it to stand a few minutes, gave the tea to the patient as warm as it could be drunk. The result was a free perspiration. Congestions were removed; the circulation was equalized. The patient-treatment was easy, the results were sure and the remedy was safe, simple and natural. We know as we write this that yarrows is just the same today as it was a thousand years ago.

2.Dr. Christopher's Son: David used the raspberry leaf tea and cleared an impending case of flu in just one day. He was so delighted that he took his wife out to dinner--and they ate the wrong things. His flu came back strong as ever the next morning. He tried the raspberry tea again, but it didn't work. So he had to use the anti-plague formula which, he said, tastes so nasty that any self-respecting germ will leave just because of the unpleasantness.

Best of health to you.

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