Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You're not supposed to take the flu shot if you have even a little cold. Larry, I think you want to talk to your doctor about booster shots. Since I am retired, I can afford to be sick for more than 2 months with whooping cough, though I'd rather not. As a selfemployed person, you may not like to be less than 50% (or even less) for such a length of time. If you start panting after climbing 1 set of stairs ...
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
At the moment, and since installing, the DC is in a far corner, out of the way. The remote is more convenience so I don't have to walk around everything, than the switch feeling funny. I am reorganizing the shop. I may follow the suggestion from someone else here (I forgot whom, sorry!), and put the dang thing more central to reduce piping length.
" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Not really, they were leftovers from a bygone era ...
When I lived in Mexico, just about everybody wound up with a cold and a cough in the winter. All the farmacias had a cough tablet that really stopped coughing. Fast. Graneodin (gra-nay-o-DEEN) was the name, they contained benzocine. I have no idea if they are legal in the US but if you have any latin population you might check at a farmacia latina.
I really didn't want to get into your personal life, Han.
I wasn't sick -before- the bloody shot.
Yeah, I hear that. But the idiots in charge are using lots of live-virus shots nowadays and the side effects are tremendously numerous. I think it's a crap shoot either way. Sites like this
-- The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. -- Glenn Doman
That's the saddest thing I've heard around here for a loooooong time. R.I.P. Hannuts.
-- The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. -- Glenn Doman
On 8/27/2012 9:16 AM, Larry Jaques wrote: ...
...
Whatever the site says or the research shows vaccination's a heckuva a lot better than not...I'm old enough I recall at least three grade school friends who weren't so lucky as to have gotten it (the Salk vaccine) in time and a young lady in an iron lung who got there at age
17 for the rest of her life...There wouldn't be the recent outbreak of whooping cough if it weren't for the yuppies who aren't old enough to remember what things were like before widespread vaccination. :(
If it were only their kids they put at risk I'd say it's good Darwinism but it's the rest of the population as well.
--
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Everything has side effects. Diphteria, Tetanus and Pertussis are bacteria, so there is no talk about live virus. Virus =/= bacterium. I believe that D and T are derived from the capsule/cell wall, but the pertussis is "acellular" (the "a" in Tdap). I asked whether anyone had experience with the shot of this triple combo on FB, and 1 lady answered. She felt flu-like for less than a day (got the shot in the morning, took off from work by noon, was better the next day). No one else reported anything (to me).
The current upswing in especially socalled childhood diseases such as whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella is a direct result of people refusing to have their children vaccinated. For an epidemic to occur, there has to be a population of susceptible patients. 1 person susceptible does not give rise to an epidemic, "just" someone who gets sick. But when 10% of people (don't know the required minimum, maybe just 2 or 5%) are susceptible, it only takes one arrival with the disease to make an epidemic. Larry, you living by yourself on a far away mountain are safe. Me living near a crowded area, not so much. Not that far away from here are communities who think (perhaps like you) that vaccination is abhorrent. So we regularly have outbreaks of preventable diseases. It's inexcusable, and I feel horrible to have exposed people whom I love to the risk. My son got antibiotics and it made his gout flare up. Hopefully it weighs against getting sick for 2 or 3 months.
"dadiOH" wrote in news:k1fs5m$16m$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
found this: Somewhere in there it says "active ingredient - Benzocaine", so I think you only missed an "a" .
That is an anesthetic, so the throat doesn't hurt anymore. I don't think it treats the cause (sometimes that doesn't matter, as when you have a virus, because you have to kill that by your immune mechanisms - there are few really effective antiviral medications). In my case,it is the mucus that the pertussis (bacterial) infection has caused. For some reason the mucus generation persists long after you or your antibiotics have killed the pertussis.
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
No reason for RIP, they are doing the job those wire nuts were designed for, they were just leftovers from some project long ago.
Yeah, the damned keys keep moving and/or disappearing :)
Right, they don't cure, just remove an effect (hurting) and symptom or response (coughing). And they are very good at that. Moreover, that in itself is useful when you are hacking so much that your throat and/or chest feels raw and sore. I always pick up a bunch to bring home when I am in Mexico even though I rarely get colds in the US.
Good use but you did get the implication (and difference) between your original "nuts" and "wire nuts". right? OTOH, maybe you *did* and they really *are* leftovers from a bygone era. It does happen...
"dadiOH" wrote in news:k1g8pp$l6n$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
The first few years in the US were pretty good. Then whatever makes me allergic caught up with me (hayfever type stuff). Here in Fair Lawn, I am lucky. I found out that the Swiss Pork Store also has "katjesdrop", a kind of Dutch/German licorice, which is very soothing and liquefying. A 3 min bicycle ride away.
"dadiOH" wrote in news:k1g926$mrj$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
When I notice a possibility for a pun, I try to grab the chance. Is that a pun too? I could go on, but this is enough, I think.
I had hay fever badly when I was young & in Indiana (40s & 50s). I solved it by moving to Hawaii :) Later, to Mexico and finally, Florida. Never had a problem in any of them.
When I did have it, the best thing I found was Parke Davis cough tablets. They too were flavored with anise and had - IIRC - chloroform in them. Not sure how they got around the volatility of it and it has been banned for decades but it worked well. Graneodin is better though.
A 3 min ride -when- you can breathe? 25 minutes now?
And speaking of Swiss comfort, have you tried Ricola cough drops? I like 'em, but I don't have pertussis.
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
the same distance. Cooler too. Ricola is OK, but too expensive. Halls is fine for me.
I go with the generics from the local stores. Halls is too expensive. Ricola goes on sale occasionally, so that's when I buy it. Herbal stuff is always more expensive.
-- The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. -- Glenn Doman
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Used to buy the CVS equivalent. Don't like it. Back to Halls. I've alos just bought some menthol crystals (web, ~$12 for a lifetime supply, 8 oz). Put a pinch in a wide container of near boiling water and sniff the vapors. Instant congestion relief. Menthol (vapors) are the ctive substance in Halls and in Vicks Vaporub, but the steam enhances the relief.
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.