ILI: My personal experience- Part 5; Keys to Survival

From my observation of the sufferings of my children, I have understood and recognized the symptoms of serious ILI rather well. The symptoms could be any of the following combinations;

• body aches followed by very high fever (39-40 degrees) for 3 days which became milder and continue for another 2-3 days, no runny nose or blocked nose, dry "bison" cough and severe sore throat and malaise till 8th day.
• severe agonising back ache with very high fever for 3 days, became less severe for another 2-3 days, mild sore throat, no runny nose, dry "bison" cough, malaise.
• tired body, very high fever for 3 days, and became milder for 4-5 days, no runny nose, severe headache, dry "bison" cough .

These I knew are symptoms of H1N1. Perhaps my whole family had had H1N1 ! Only not proven so because I didnt do the lab test. The test for H1N1 at private institutions are eye-boggling too damn expensive!! I asked a private clinic and I was given a hefty RM170 tag !! A private hospital in Shah Alam charged a ridiculous RM220!! What are these medical professionals doing? Making money out of people's sufferings?

I am glad I have practised the followings as soon as my children had fever and cough.

1. Take organic multi-vitamin, multi-mineral supplement.
2. Take extra 500 mg of organic Vitamin C supplement which naturally contain bioflavonoids. To be taken 3x /day. Thats a total of 1500 mg of Vitamin C plus phytonutrients.
3. Take 2 tablets of freeze-dried garlic supplement with added veges such as parsley which also contain phytonutrients.
4. Eat a lot green apples, as apples are alkalizing and rich in pyhtonutrients. I believe eating oranges will be equally beneficial.
5. Eat alkalizing foods. Taking chicken soup with watercress or broccoli is a good alkalizing broth. Try it.
6. Eat a lot of greens, like salads or ulam kampung.
7. As all this happened in the month of Ramadhan, I had supplicated to God for his mercy on my children, and family.

Preventive measures

Being in the middle of a pandemic should make us more careful and make positive important decisions to save ourselves and our family from this scourge. Besides cleaning our hands with antiseptic soap, as advocated by the authority, I strongly believe that strengthening our inner biological terrain is a positive step towards prevention from this pandemic. We should assert ourselves to boost up our immune system, and at the same time, ensure to make effort to make our blood and body more alkaline at cellular level.

A MCOBA doctor wrote that, H1N1, like other Influenza A viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tracts and proliferates there. The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global pandemic of this nature, it's almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not the problem but proliferation is. While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps -

Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (or any well-known mouth-wash). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. Gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one.

Similar to above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.

Allahu a'lam.....