Comments on: Echinacea and Swine Flu

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:41:51 +0000

For many years now i have been taking berocca with water first thing in the morning when i wake up. Before i took it regularly i would get sick at least twice every winter leaving me off work for up to a week at a time. Since taking it i go through whole winters without getting sick or if i do it would be minor and only require a single day or two absent.
As a minor prevention guard against “swine flu” i’d say the B vitamin group, vitamin C and other components of berocca surely are better than taking nothing. I have used echinacea liquid on an inflamed sore throat cough as well with great results within 20 minutes, the cough disappeared and my throat soreness subsided. Didn’t taste pleasant, but worked.

By: Detox Diet Recipes

Detox Diet Recipes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:48:57 +0000

the spread of AH1N1 or Swine Flu is really scary. It is a good thing that this virus is not very deadly. We are advised to take Vitamin-C and to wear face masks.

By: How To Prevent Flu

How To Prevent Flu — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:24:10 +0000

I think more of the concern with regard to how to prevent flu is about preventing its spread.. not really lessening its symptoms. Since it has already achieved pandemic status, right now everyone is most concerned with how to stop it from further spread.. Not as much with making it easier for those who already have it, sadly.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:53:38 +0000

It’s not for me to advise you on company policy, but personally I think no one should be at work/in public if they have any form of flu (other than man-flu, of course, which is a different matter altogether). Flu spreads through interpersonal contact and touching infected surfaces, it kills. Do you really want staff with genuine influenza spreading the virus among their colleagues and thence passing it on to elderly, infirm, and infant friends and relatives?

By: PB

PB — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:13:33 +0000

Should I send staff home who have normal “fluie” symptoms?

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:45:52 +0000

That’s disgraceful…thanks for the insight Phyllis

By: Phyllis Lewis

Phyllis Lewis — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:53:14 +0000

Ahh, that explains the use of the term. My apology for not understanding. I do wish your “sick pay” system knew how to do some “pond hopping”. *smiles*

The only “system” we have in place is “Employee at Will”. It means simply, your fault, my fault, or no ones fault at all, they can end your employment for no reason whatsoever.

The posters just went up this week about the H1N1 virus. If you have flu symptoms, it must be diagnosed specifically AS swine flu to be allowed to miss work without being pointed for it. If it is not H1N1, you are pointed for the time you miss. In short, they have implied we should work through basic flu, just not the swine version.

Unemployment is so high in our area, I have no doubt I would not be the only one working sick. Here , at least 5 major employers have either closed their doors, or moved out of state putting 3500 plus out of work.

But rather than continue on such a morbid note, I have used echinacea as a medicine in this household for many years. When I start feeling ill, I begin a round, 3 capsules of herb (2280mg) two times a day.

It did not fully cure last years strain of flu. If I start becoming sick this fall, I will use it again even though it was not 100% effective against the last strain. Over the years, it has either cured, or made the symptoms less severe in flu outbreaks. I trust it.

By: reactive

reactive — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:35:27 +0000

Sorry to hear about your problems Phyllis, you raise an interesting point, which as a Brit, where a statutory “sick pay” system is in place hadn’t occurred to me. As to the word staff implying servitude…not over this side of the Pond it doesn’t, it’s purely a synonym for employee; no inferiority is implied by its use.

Of course, I’m afraid if you’re truly sick with influenza and pneumonia and going out to work, then you are knowingly spreading a virus that can and does kill. Working through it could lead to your own demise too, then who’s going to feed your children?

By: Phyllis Lewis

Phyllis Lewis — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:08:43 +0000

And if “staff” making it sound like servitude, IS sent home, what preperations have been made for single-paycheck families??

This world is FULL of families with no support other than one person’s income. I know, I’m one! And before it is said, not everyone has savings to live upon. Mine were taken by an illness well before I went to work 9 years ago, at 41. My husband has been disabled for 4 of those years and is fully dependent upon my support. If I do not work, we lose everything.

So?? Will I work sick?? Will, and have, with regular flu till I came close to having pneumonia instead. I was forced from my job, ended up a month behind on everything and it has taken me till now, 5 months later, to catch up, fighting all the way NOT to lose my home.

REAL PEOPLE, will work sick to support their families and anyone who doesn’t realize that needs a reality check! Real jobs have no PAID sick leave. Staying home is fine for the rich or “salaried”, but hourly workers have to work that hour to buy food, put gas in a car, get medicines, and pay bills.

Check a little further before you wonder what kind of Boss lets you work sick?
He’s the one who DOES care if your children get fed tonight!!

By: reactive

reactive — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:16:18 +0000

If you mean your staff have actual flu symptoms – aching joints, heaadache, fever, sore throat, cough, lethargy, then yes…they shouldn’t be at work suffering and spreading that virus either. What kind of boss are you?