Flu

Go back to docs! If it's a virus then antibiotics are no use anyway, but if you've developed a secondary infection then you need them. You've given it lots of time to settle on its own and it's not happening, so go back for proper examination/diagnosis/treatment plan. Oh, and get the family to bring a course each for dinner including the veg-that way you just have to cook the bird. Or head for Markies and buy everything prepared so you just have to pop it in the oven. Maybe not quite what you would like but it's the family being there that counts. I recall in the 60's my mother and grandmother having flu-she bought 8 Birds Eye frozen chicken dinners and a large trifle from the bakers for Xmas lunch!

Is any one else allergic to the flu jab.

I had it twice with no ill affects but last year my arm swelled up, itchy eyes, ears and throat. The docs say I can't have it again because I might go into anaphlactic (can't spell it) shock. :-(

Thank you for good tips, will head back to docs on Monday. And yens will head to M & S or Iceland to purchase ready made stuff. Also going to invest in some really good thermal underwear. Failing all that perhaps I'll curl up and hibernate. Hope everyone's feeling better today.

for you all. This time of year is busy and stressful which is not helpful when your ill. I hope you all recover. Sorry to be selfish but fingers crossed I don't get anything from you, snotty grandchildren or anyone else for that matter.

crun.I am like you, I have never had flu, neither has anyone in my immediate family, including my, now deceased parents. I was at boarding school during the Asian flu epidemic in the late 1950s and DS and I were about the only people at school not to get it.

I have read that some people do have a natural immunity to flu, but how you can tell whether one is a member of this fortunate group I do not know.