Getting over this pneumonia?

Question

I had it for 6 days before the doctor decided to x-ray (since I still had a fever) I finished 10 days of antibiotics. After my 2nd set of x-rays the Doc said the pneumonia is still there. He said it should continue to clear up on its' own within another 2 weeks. Today my body aches and fever are starting to come back. What can I eat to boost my immune system? I can't think of anything else that I can do besides "rest". Any sugestions? I have been real ill!

Answer 1

Been there done that. Gosh, all I can say is keep the liquids flowing! Drink blue gatorade by the gallon. Not the red.....it messes with your stomach. Rest and rest and then rest some more. Pneumonia is so hard to beat, but you have to get it in your head that you can't do what you are used to doing. Simple things like showers are exhausting. It actually took me two rounds of antibiotics before I could kick it completely. It was around a month. Even after that.....the cough and low energy level remained.

Keep in contact with your doctor, drink fluids, stay on your meds and rest rest rest!!

Answer 2

My boyfriend had walking pneumonia, and he took antibiotics and a steroid, didn't even do it correctly (he forgot to take his pills on several occassions) and it took about a month and a half for him to feel completely better. Truth is it will stay no matter what you do, so I suggest you get some rest, and I drink Naked Juices Green Machine for my immune system. Just make sure you take vitamins regularly and take care of yourself for a while more than you usually do. Pneumonia takes time to work itself out.

Answer 3

It takes literally weeks to feel better. You need lots of STEAM like from a hot shower, and LOTS of REST. The steam will clear up your phlegm. I would suggest picking up GUAIFENSIN over the counter (this is a natural form to loosen up phlegm therefore clearing up your lungs). If you cannot find it alone with out all the other cough stuff you don't need then as for a prescription for it 200 mg, one tablet by mouth every 4 hrs. Do NOT push yourself into getting better sooner. That won't happen. It takes time for your body to heal. Drink lots of water and warm broths. And if you can, take a vitamin like Ester-C. Hope you feel better soon honey.

Answer 4

I have had pneumonia many times. It wasn't until I almost collapsed in a veteran hospital did they give me a shot. Now it has been ( knock on wood) several years since I was stricken by it

Answer 5

I had it once too. It takes a long time to get over. I have to say movies made the time pass...if you can get a stack and sleep in between or even during.

Chicken soup works for awhile as well.

With the fever coming back I would hit the doctor again, because the infection needs more fight.

Take care. I am so sorry you have this crappy affliction.

Answer 6

Do you drink diet soda? if so stop now. Completely. I would have terrible coughs every winter and they got worse every year. I cut out the diet soda and it went away in a few days. Never came back.

The asparatme (also called neotame, acesulfide-k or acesulfide potassium) is bad stuff. Poison. Avoid it.

Answer 7

Eat chicken noodle soup with rice,then a lot of sleep and rest is best,I had it,too and I didn't feel guilty to sleep and eat lots of Ice Cream,too!

Answer 8

i've had phemonia 8 times. it sucks. i was out of school for like a month once. if you drink a lot of liquids it helps. sprite ussaly works the best gatorade is ok too. hang in there!!!

Answer 9

what is the best herbs for walking pneumonia

Answer 10

Hi Ouisy

Here are some remedies to take care of the issue. Also a few testimonials at the end.

Herbal Aids
1.Garlic Syrup: Where there is spasm, give 1 teaspoonful of the syrup with or without water every 15 minutes until the spasm is controlled, then give 1 teaspoonful every 2-3 hours for the rest of the day; thereafter give 1 teaspoonful of the syrup 3-4 times daily. Use the foot poultice; also, mix the freshly expressed juice with leaf lard and rub on the chest, throat, and between the shoulder blades.Tincture-syrup of Garlic. See formula using garlic cloves, apple cider vinegar and yellow D sugar.

2.Pleurisy Root: Give hot infusion while the patient is closely-covered in bed; repeat the dosage every 30 minutes until free perspiration is produced; apply hot cloths externally, wrung out in the infusion.

3.Garden Sage: Clear the bowels, give 3-5 cupfuls of hot infusion 1/2 hour apart. Keep well covered in bed.

4.Henry Box Pneumonia Cure: The great herbalist, Henry Box of Plymouth, England, says: For colds, influenza, fevers, inflammation of the brain, pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs), stomach, bowels or any part, this is a certain cure. I have never known it to fail, even when given up, and at the point of death. It will not only save at the eleventh hour, but at the last minute of that hour. Besides, it is so safe and harmless that you cannot use it amiss. This wonderful, wise old man had been a physician of herbs for over sixty years and was known as one of the great doctors of all times.

The infusion for the tea is made as follows:

2 ounces elder flowers

2 ounces peppermint leaves (crushed)

1 1/2 pints boiling distilled water

Pour boiling water over herbs, cover and allow to steep (not boil) in a hot place 20 minutes. Strain and sweeten with honey, then drink the whole amount of tea as hot as possible while closely covered in bed. Cover a hot water bottle with a cloth or towel dipped in apple cider vinegar and place on the feet. In a few minutes there will be copious perspiration, and the pulse will slow down and the patient will sleep peacefully for hours...When taken alone, elder flowers are inclined to be emetic, and somewhat nauseous to some people. This effect can be prevented by combining them with peppermint (Mentha piperita). Peppermint is stimulant, nervine, calmative, and antiemetic, which offsets the undesirable effects of the elder flower. This combination is world-famous as a great fever and cold remedy.

5.Onions: Roasted onions can be crushed for the same purpose (as a plaster); they have been used in pneumonia. Raw grated onions will also work but you must coat the skin with olive oil beforehand and check for blistering consistently.

Testimonials
1.Water Cure - Cold Sheet Treatment: An old story of the first written instances of the water cure is as follows: Many years ago a peasant was heading home on foot, with miles to go. He was racked with fever, colds, and lumbago. While crossing a stream, over a log for a bridge, he slipped and fell into the icy cold water and was drenched to the skin. It was a bitterly cold day and the man had to walk home in the cold in sloppy wet clothes. By the time he had arrived home, his clothes were nearly dried out. The fevers and heat in his body had been raised, while hurrying miles home, to a point of healing climax and was down to nearly normal at the end of his journey. The lumbago and fever were gone and he rejoiced! The next time he got lumbago and fevers he knew the cure--he would return to the stream, fall in and walk home again.

We are going to explain a procedure that will do the job at home without "falling into the stream" and this is a life saver, when pneumonia, colds, flu and fevers hit. It is called: The Cold Sheet Treatment.

For detailed information on the Cold Sheet Treatment:

2.Onion Syrup Cures Dr. Christopher's Pneumonia: Here is the way you make the syrup. Dice up big dried onions, whatever amount you want, and put them into a stainless steel, unchipped enamel, or Pyrex pan. Don't use aluminum. When you have about the amount you want, pour liquid honey over them until they are covered. Add nothing else. The honey extracts the Onion power, which is the greatest antihistamine known. This goes into the honey solution and provides a wonderfully effective cough syrup.

At one time he couldn't fly out of upper New York, but he had to be in Boston the next day to lecture for a three-day series. No planes were available, so he had to go on a train. He joked that he thought it must have been the same train that George Washington rode on. It was so drafty that by the time he got to Boston, he had pneumonia, and was all choked up. It was close to midnight, and the hotel kitchen was closed. He asked, "Can you fix me something for an emergency?" They would. He had them chop up a big dried onion and pour honey over it, and he ate the whole thing. In fact, he said, he had an audience. All the hotel staff there--the clean-up people, cooks, waitresses and all--came to watch him eat that onion down. But the next day he lectured in Boston.

Best of health to you.

Cheers