breezyhill
Veteran Member
hello everybody,
i need some ideas for the practical implications of staying put/isolation, when this thing hits.
for example;
what is the distance, feet or inches, to stay away from people when in public?
when staying home, let's say, on five acres, bounded on one side by the road, if someone has the flu and drive by with car windows open and is coughing, and the germs spew out the window, how long are the germs viable to infect someone that might cross that place on the road to get to the mailbox?
how long does the flu germ stay on surfaces that you could touch and be exposed to? for instance, someone with BF coughs, covers their mouth, touches a doorknob, or something in a store, and you come along....for how long is that germ capable of infecting you?
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this really happened to me, can someone explain this???
last december my daughter, 24 became seriously ill and went to the doctor, who suspected meningitis and sent her to the hospital. after an overnight stay, and a spinal and isolation procedures while testing her, they sent her home. diagnosis; flu.
that poor girl ran a fever that lasted a week, with temps in the 103/104 range, and was on tylenol, 1000 mg every six hours, with advil, 500 mg, staggered in between the tylenol at three hours, because the fever just wouldn't come down.
during the worst of it, three days, i kept cold cloths on her arms and legs and tummy and forehead. i spoon fed her ice chips and helped her to the bathroom and sponge-bathed her.
the doctor gave us prescriptions for tamiflu. my mother stayed with us to help. DH took over all my chores regarding the animals, and my mom kept things going in the house while i took care of D. mom and DH took the tamiflu. i didn't.
they never got the flu from DD...but, neither did i.
i was extremely careful and used hand sanitizer all the time, in addition to not touching around my face when i had been touching/caring for my DD.
but i dont' understand, when she was sooo sick, and coughing, etc., why i didn't get sick just from the inhalation of the same air that she was exhaling, when i was in such close proximity to her.
..........
i would really like to start a discussion on these kinds of things and if the thread drifts in terms of practicalities that i haven't thought of, that's fine with me.
thanks so much,
breezyhill
i need some ideas for the practical implications of staying put/isolation, when this thing hits.
for example;
what is the distance, feet or inches, to stay away from people when in public?
when staying home, let's say, on five acres, bounded on one side by the road, if someone has the flu and drive by with car windows open and is coughing, and the germs spew out the window, how long are the germs viable to infect someone that might cross that place on the road to get to the mailbox?
how long does the flu germ stay on surfaces that you could touch and be exposed to? for instance, someone with BF coughs, covers their mouth, touches a doorknob, or something in a store, and you come along....for how long is that germ capable of infecting you?
................................................
this really happened to me, can someone explain this???
last december my daughter, 24 became seriously ill and went to the doctor, who suspected meningitis and sent her to the hospital. after an overnight stay, and a spinal and isolation procedures while testing her, they sent her home. diagnosis; flu.
that poor girl ran a fever that lasted a week, with temps in the 103/104 range, and was on tylenol, 1000 mg every six hours, with advil, 500 mg, staggered in between the tylenol at three hours, because the fever just wouldn't come down.
during the worst of it, three days, i kept cold cloths on her arms and legs and tummy and forehead. i spoon fed her ice chips and helped her to the bathroom and sponge-bathed her.
the doctor gave us prescriptions for tamiflu. my mother stayed with us to help. DH took over all my chores regarding the animals, and my mom kept things going in the house while i took care of D. mom and DH took the tamiflu. i didn't.
they never got the flu from DD...but, neither did i.
i was extremely careful and used hand sanitizer all the time, in addition to not touching around my face when i had been touching/caring for my DD.
but i dont' understand, when she was sooo sick, and coughing, etc., why i didn't get sick just from the inhalation of the same air that she was exhaling, when i was in such close proximity to her.
..........
i would really like to start a discussion on these kinds of things and if the thread drifts in terms of practicalities that i haven't thought of, that's fine with me.
thanks so much,
breezyhill