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Lovin' The Homestead
Well, I got food poisoning that nearly kicked my butt over the weekend. I found some herbs that really helped - the symptoms of e-Coli and Salmonella are pretty much the same, and the herbal treatment is the same. Whichever it was, I was able to keep the symptoms to something less than total misery.
FYI, it was pretty much CERTAINLY one of the two, I got it from a batch of a commercial national brand dairy product (can't share the name, even by PM this time, legal risk is too great they have HUGE batteries of lawyers). Point isn't who did it, point is, I got it, this is how I treated it, and it worked for me.
Also, the severity of it was such that it was not just a traveling stomach virus, or "the kids left the food out too long" bug. I'm typically fairly isolated from the one (and what I had does not seem to be contagious), and I'm normally immune to the other - I virtually never get sick with that kind of illness, if I do it is very mild. This is the worst I've ever had and it has hung on for days.
Calendula Tea - Antimicrobial, helps to control the bacterial spread. I used about a quarter cup of this every six hours or so.
Red Raspberry Tea - Mild anti-diarrheal, helps to reduce the dehydration associated with severe food poisoning, helps reduce cramping and paid. I used 1 cup every 2-4 hours, depending on how severe it was.
Peppermint Tea - Mild anti-microbial, bowel relaxant, very mild sedative. I used half a cup every 4-6 hours, depending on how I felt.
I'm still recovering. Came down with it Thursday, after I knew I had something that tasted different than normal (but not nasty, so didn't make the connect), Friday and Saturday were really bad, and Sunday morning I think I slept and drank tea all morning (sleep, get up, drink tea, go to the toilet, go back to sleep). By mid-day I was getting my brain back, but had no energy, by evening feeling human enough to take a bath.
This morning, still pretty wiped out, still some residual symptoms (this stuff usually goes on for a week), am still taking the tea but in lower doses, and am back to eating some normal foods, but not all. If I weren't having energy issues due to the pregnancy, I expect I'd be back to about 75% function.
All this, while I am already fighting to sustain a pretty difficult pregnancy... One reason for choosing the herbs I did, they were the least likely to be harmful to the baby.
FYI, it was pretty much CERTAINLY one of the two, I got it from a batch of a commercial national brand dairy product (can't share the name, even by PM this time, legal risk is too great they have HUGE batteries of lawyers). Point isn't who did it, point is, I got it, this is how I treated it, and it worked for me.
Also, the severity of it was such that it was not just a traveling stomach virus, or "the kids left the food out too long" bug. I'm typically fairly isolated from the one (and what I had does not seem to be contagious), and I'm normally immune to the other - I virtually never get sick with that kind of illness, if I do it is very mild. This is the worst I've ever had and it has hung on for days.
Calendula Tea - Antimicrobial, helps to control the bacterial spread. I used about a quarter cup of this every six hours or so.
Red Raspberry Tea - Mild anti-diarrheal, helps to reduce the dehydration associated with severe food poisoning, helps reduce cramping and paid. I used 1 cup every 2-4 hours, depending on how severe it was.
Peppermint Tea - Mild anti-microbial, bowel relaxant, very mild sedative. I used half a cup every 4-6 hours, depending on how I felt.
I'm still recovering. Came down with it Thursday, after I knew I had something that tasted different than normal (but not nasty, so didn't make the connect), Friday and Saturday were really bad, and Sunday morning I think I slept and drank tea all morning (sleep, get up, drink tea, go to the toilet, go back to sleep). By mid-day I was getting my brain back, but had no energy, by evening feeling human enough to take a bath.
This morning, still pretty wiped out, still some residual symptoms (this stuff usually goes on for a week), am still taking the tea but in lower doses, and am back to eating some normal foods, but not all. If I weren't having energy issues due to the pregnancy, I expect I'd be back to about 75% function.
All this, while I am already fighting to sustain a pretty difficult pregnancy... One reason for choosing the herbs I did, they were the least likely to be harmful to the baby.
