My throat went to $#!@ in a span of 2 hours

[conehead433]

If it is strep you can avoid a doctor's visit by taking berberine, a very potent natural antibiotic found in barbaerry bark, turmeric, et al, along with some goldenseal root. I can verify that it works. Of course you should gargle with warm salt water as well. Funny that I happened to see this thread because my throat just started feeling weird an hour or so ago. I immediately took some goldenseal root, echinacia, garlic, and some slippery elm. While the above mentioned presription antibiotic will work along with others used to treat strep and other infections they destroy almost all of the body's natural bacteria. If you'd rather piss away ~$100 or so for an office visit and get some prescription drugs make sure to eat a lot of yogurt while taking it. If it's the flu it just has to run it's course.

 

[Eli]

I've been fighting something off that's been going around at work. Seems to turn into laryngitis for most people that have gotten it, not me so far. This weekend seems to be the worst, but I'm not incapacitated or anything.

I blame the less severe nature on the echinacea, vitamin and garlic. Usually when I feel something coming on, I take them and it goes away.. wasn't enough to stop this completely though.

And yes, I know it's anecdotal.. but it really does seem to work. Whether it's placebo or not, I don't know, but I will continue to take them when I start to feel something coming on like that.

 

[ManBearPig]

It's gotta be some new thing going around, me and my family ALL have that too

 

[Narse]

I'm trying to to figure out how I could have picked it up... the only thing I can think of is when I went to the grocery store I didn't use the paper towel sanitizer on the handle bar of the shopping cart.

FUUUUUUUU...

Lay off all the sanitizer, it's making you weak.

 

[her209]

Wow. I got knocked on my ass hard yesterday. Body was sore the whole day. Could barely move and had a massive headache. My body was fighting the illness by increasing body temperature. It wasn't until later on in the evening that I took two extra strength aspirins (500mg each) which helped immensely with the headache. Prior to that, I was downing OJ and water while going in and out of consciousness and watching the SF/Washington and GB/SD games.