Getting Over the Flu

I ' m not too concrete whether this is really a Health or a Fitness article but my own recent bout of flu prompted me to correspond this article.

I have kept myself fit all my life and the habit started in my early nurture days when I joined the illustrate Touchy Country team. I was never the best runner but I had to run every day to be good enough for the team. The habit stayed with me all my life and I twigged early on to the fact that running is one common denominator to most sports.

I didn ' t become fanatical but I went the usual routes of trying my luck at half marathons, then the marathon and also a triathlon. In other words, I put in enough strife to compete at high levels but I was never a champion runner.

As I became older jogging became less attractive as I was no longer competing in my more appropriate sports of Judo, Squash, Rugby and Football. I didn ' t need to jog. In truth, as of today I am totally happy to go on a peachy long march and do my thinking whilst I am moving.

Just before Christmas I felt my legs were very heavy when I came back from my circuit down on the seafront. My body tells me when I am going to be ill and I have learnt to listen to what it tells me. This information came in very useful a few age ago when I duty-bound food poisoning and my legs became very heavy. The signs and symptoms were comparable. The big clue was in the heaviness of my legs.

There really is only one sensible thing to do if it is possible. You need to get to bed and let your body fight the virus or bug. Sleep is the first line of preventive and your body dictates how much you need. When you can ' t keep your eyes unbolted then there is no point in fighting the motility. It doesn ' t matter what you think you must do on your computer or telephone. Get to bed.

The first time that you wake up you really need to try and think whether you have a cold or the flu. Largely, we don ' t have the flu and there are so many different types of colds and flu that it is hard to be precise in a diagnosis. With the advent of Swine Flu and Bird Flu it is sensible to take the precautions which are sensible to the way you feel. If there is any suspect then it is best to go with the way your stomach reacts to food. If there is no regurgitation then my feel is that the body is happy to take a bit of food on board. If I feel there is the likelihood of being sick then the chances of flu are higher and it ' s time to starve the body.

My doctor used to always tell me to feed a cold and starve a virus and I think his advice has stood the test of time. He also verbal, “ If you have a cold and take pills it will last fourteen days or thereabouts. If you have a cold and don ' t take pills it will last a fortnight! ”

If you can administer the pills and potions then I would fairly spend my money on medicines than on beer but “ you pays your money and takes your choice. ”

I was flat on my back this time for four days. I didn ' t feel like moving from my bed and this tends to make me feel I have had a flu of sorts. I was drinking gallons of water and trying to get vitamins and minerals as much as I could. I started to feel better about a eternity following and struggled back to normality some two weeks following. I went out just once and the next day I was flat on my back again.

Was this the same bug coming back? Was this the same bug that hadn ' t gone away? Was this a different bug? The answer is I have no image and the poor doctor I went to contemplate seemed to have no concept either.

Indeed, I felt great sympathy for the doctor who has to sit in front of so many patients and inhale their germs. It ' s a wonder that any doctors survive and the medical staff in general must be exposed to thousands of germs every day.

She gave me a Vitamin Boost to take every day and a special Vitamin C Booster. I also need an anti - biotic for my ear which has still not spread out up a fortnight subsequent.

Now to the fitness bit. I wanted to impel myself and get myself out on good walks by the sea. A Doctor Witty was the first to say that good walks by the sea are very therapeutic. I do feel the stimulus to legwork by the sea. It certainly relaxes my mind.

My first few steps were very tentative and I couldn ' t possess how weak I was tangibility. I don ' t like to be ill and I do not like taking my time making a recovery. This is the major point I whim to make.

It is rot to expect to feel as fit as I did feel four weeks ago. Fitness is a complete sense of physical and mental well - being according to the World Health Organisation and it is easy to feel a little glum after the flu or suchlike.

Part of the problem is the depressing diet dished up by the television and therefore it is a good image to switch off and read a decamp as nowadays as you can. A good radio entrench talent also help.

Physical Fitness tends to take about six weeks to come and will be lost in around the same spell of time. It was fully accessible I would have to be forbearing and build myself up after my days in bed.

We had recently looked at our eating habits and we had pat to build a clear-sighted regime by the abutting methods. We would start the day with a breakfast of Goji Berries, Oats, Invalid and Demented and 100 % Vegetable Milk. This is both nice and radically nutritious.

We have knocked out the dairy products we used to eat and I loved cheese so this has been a abandonment for me. We have mode down on Bread halfway to the point of not eating it and we have built a great choice of vegetables to go into salads and stir - fries using Mediterranean Oil. We also nurse to drink Sprouting Tea more than coffee and other teas and we are being equitable in our eating habits.

I have dropped from 87 Kg to 77 Kg and I am halfway at my best fighting weight during all my competitive Judo dotage. I have also parted company with my 42” waist and got myself down to a sensible 36” waist. I felt this was really important as the damage to the internal organs can be exacerbated by the extra fat carried round the waist as middle - aged spread.

I am now back to my typical regime of stretching each day first thing in the morning and lifting a few light weights. Later in the day I will pace for a minimum of 30 minutes and I try to incorporate this with a stretch and talk with my wife Anne.

I think we get out of practice of being ill and we have to re - educate ourselves as to how to cope with the recovery mistake. Personally, I have come to terms with the gospel that I am not a young upsurge with personal issues to authenticate. I will project with my daily stretching and light weights. I will also make consummate I get in a daily stride. If I were a lot younger then I would do exactly the same but I would be doubling the time and jogging or swimming as part of my daily regime.

I think we owe ourselves a daily training and I think we also should build in exercise for our minds in whichever form is best for each of us. We know the value of taking liquids on board, especially water which is not fizzy, and I fall for a good variation of fruit and vegetables each day will set my recovery on the right road.

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