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July 4, 2019 6:49am by David Farrar

DPF sick :-(

Fairly sick so don’t expect any posts until my fever drops away. Off to raid the Pharmac budget this morning!

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cmm

Get well soon bludger!
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July 4, 2019 6:52am
stewmar

Should hv had yr flu shot
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July 4, 2019 6:52am
- David Farrar
  
  I did!!
  
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  July 4, 2019 7:18am
  - cmm
    
    Aah yes, but was it a Wellbeing flu shot?
    
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    July 4, 2019 7:36am
    - Justitia
      
      With the option of free gender reassignment surgery?
      
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      July 4, 2019 9:12am
  - David Garrett
    
    DPF: You know the drill…keep warm, plenty of fluids…perhaps have Ben looked after by the grandies so Mrs DPF can concentrate on you…Get well soon mate.
    
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    July 4, 2019 8:45am
    - Sacha
      
      Get some Vick Vapodrops (the originals in the blue pack, not those feeble honey ones) if you start a cough. Tuck one into your cheek and let it dissolve slowly.
      They work very well. Very well. If it turns out to be a severe cold, as soon as you feel a bit better, wrap up warmly – scarf around neck, beanie – and go for a walk. Fresh air does wonders.
      
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      July 4, 2019 10:44am
      - Dave Winefield
        
        Equal portions of Stone’s Green Ginger wine and Barbados Rum. Continue the prescription until pain passes. Seriously, all the best for a speedy recovery.
        
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        July 4, 2019 1:21pm
    - Unity
      
      Sorry to hear it, DPF. Hope you get well soon. Apparently the flu shots don’t stop you getting it but you are not supposed to get it so bad. However there are a lot of strains around so maybe it’s hard for the shot to cover new strains. Take plenty of fluids and it will run its course.
      
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      July 4, 2019 11:20am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Just getting over it.
    
    Sould last 24 to 48 hours.
    
    Oh and harden up.
    
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    July 4, 2019 9:11am
  - suzieq
    
    Get well, David.
    
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    July 4, 2019 11:57am
  - tom1980
    
    Having just recovered from the same thing I’d like to put in a recommendation for my hot toddy recipe. Into a large mug goes:
    50% scotch
    50% hot water
    1 tablespoon maple syrup
    about 1/4 teaspoon of of mixed spice if you have it
    
    Drink while watching hikok45 videos on YouTube. Not sure if it works or not, but after a few of these you won’t care anyway.
    
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    July 5, 2019 7:09am
- srylands
  
  Most people who say they have the ‘flu’ have nothing more a cold. Of course severe colds can be miserable things. However if you really do get influenza, you will know the difference.
  
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  July 4, 2019 7:55am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Exactly. The flu is pretty rare. I take Kyolic garlic tablets daily which, when combined with being reasonably fit for a chap of a my years, limits my colds to one every 2-3 years.
    
    I’ve not had a cold since 2016, however as it happens I’ve had a cold for the the last week.
    
    Bloody awful, and I avoid drugs where possible. This time I folded and went and got some Sudafed PE Day+Night – essentially Phenylephrine + Paracetamol.
    
    I can confirm that this is absolutely useless for congestion, coughing, sleeping. In fact the only thing it relieved me of was quite a few dollars.
    
    Also, something I learned this week is that a 1000mg vitamin C tablet has 1600% of the RDI of vitamin C!
    
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    July 4, 2019 8:49am
    - Brian Marshall
      
      I swear by antihistamines for when you need to stop the running nose. They let you breathe when you sleep. Just don’t make the mistake I made a few years ago and think decongestant cough medicine means that it stops the runny nose etc.
      
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      July 4, 2019 9:14am
    - srylands
      
      “In fact the only thing it relieved me of was quite a few dollars.”
      
      Pharmacies make most of their money by pushing dubious remedies. If you have a cold, you can take paracetemol and drink water and stay in bed for a couple of days. What cures a cold is time.
      
      Influenza is something else entirely. In 2014 a colleague died of influenza. Mid forties and fit. It is a phenomena called a cytokine storm. It is this phenomena that was present in the 1918 flu epidemic. The deaths were disproportionately in healthy adults between the ages of 20 and 40.
      
      https://www.getscience.com/biology-explained/inside-cytokine-storm-when-your-immune-system-too-strong
      
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      July 4, 2019 11:24am
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      Agree about the uselessness of Sudafed PE. The old Sudafed was vastly more effective
      
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      July 4, 2019 12:56pm
      - Richard Prosser
        
        Still available here in the UK. Straight over the counter. No questions asked. No accusations of illicit drug manufacturing made.
        
        Ahhh……
        
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        July 4, 2019 7:39pm
  - Lance
    
    I thought I was dying once (literally), nausea, numbness in hands and feet and overwhelming weakness.
    The GP pointed out it was no biggy, the flu does that sometimes….. W…. T….. F….. !!!
    
    Sure enough a couple of days later all was good again.
    
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    July 4, 2019 11:22am
alloytoo

Get in there before Labour cuts the budget again.
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July 4, 2019 6:56am
burt

Given that pseudoephedrine is now regularly stopped at the border in 20kg+ volumes, can we have it back in our cold medications?
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July 4, 2019 7:12am
- Brian Marshall
  
  Agreed. I was talking about that very thing the other day as my workplace is hit by the heavy colds going around. Ah the good old days when you didn’t need to show your drivers licence to the chemist to pick up pain killers for your migraine and the cold and flu left you humming (but still functional) when you doubled the dose cause you just couldn’t be off work. Stupid stoners spoil it for the rest of us.
  
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  July 4, 2019 7:17am
- cmm
  
  Good point. No point in cutting off supply for legitimate purposes when the crims can get their precursors in bulk at far cheaper rates.
  
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  July 4, 2019 7:38am
- srylands
  
  John Key bought into two falsehoods.
  
  First that the ban on those cold tablets would reduce crystal meth production. Ha ha.
  
  Second that there was an alternative ingredient called phenylephrine that is nearly as effective at reducing nasal congestion. Well it is not. Just spend 10 minutes browsing the studies that have been done. Taken orally for nasal congestion it is useless.
  
  It was a stupid decision that should be reversed. Of course that won’t happen.
  
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  July 4, 2019 7:49am
  - cmm
    
    It might have been the right decision at the time, but it should be reversed now.
    
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    July 4, 2019 8:32am
  - Richard Prosser
    
    In fairness it was that ignorant twat Gluckman who stated that it was just as effective.
    
    Not very surprising coming from a man who openly admits to believing in man made global warming.
    
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    July 4, 2019 7:42pm
Paulus Gnome

Maybe one of those magic hugz from the PriNZess will cure the bot like they have cured every other ill we appear to be facing.

Declare a climate emergency in your house, seems to have fixed everything else in New Zealand never known as Aotearoa
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July 4, 2019 7:12am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  8.12 – soooooooooooooooooo, what is objectionable here?
  
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  July 4, 2019 8:07am
Brian Marshall

Get well soon DPF. (I’m really just being selfish as kiwiblog is my multi times a day regular read. The world needs more kiwiblog, not less).
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July 4, 2019 7:13am
slightlyrighty

Man-Flu or He-Bola?
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July 4, 2019 7:20am
stinkypete

https://youtu.be/VbmbMSrsZVQ
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July 4, 2019 7:21am
Biscuit

Appalling stuff, DPF,

I don’t recall you EVER being sick under a National-led Government.
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July 4, 2019 7:58am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Ahhh – nine years of neglect has left him vulnerable. He should sell his house and move into a healthy rental.
  
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  July 4, 2019 1:01pm
Ed Snack

Love the “related stories” info with this post. Top of the list is “sick, sick, scum”. Not related at all !

Get well soon anyway, no fun with a fever.
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July 4, 2019 8:02am
mandk

Get well soon.

Take a good shot of whisky with your paracetamol at bedtime.
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July 4, 2019 8:14am
- JB.49
  
  Whisky, lemon juice, honey and hot water…..works for me!
  
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  July 4, 2019 11:29am
Inandout

The flu injection I have been advised will usually prevent the vaccinated from actually dying of the nasty virus, so no worries DPF. The down side is that the supplies have run dry until next year.
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July 4, 2019 8:17am
G152

Have a day or more off and get the editors to run the place.
And get well
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July 4, 2019 8:18am
G152

Editors moderators whatever
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July 4, 2019 8:19am
Drone

If you find a doctor with appointment space this week before you naturally get over it you’ll be lucky.
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July 4, 2019 8:48am
JimBobJoe

Your Grandma’s chicken soup DPF….. twill fix thee and no doubts…
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July 4, 2019 8:48am
alex Masterley

Honey, lemsip asprin and whisky. My late fathers all purpose remedy.
Dont know if it worked but i sure as heck got pissed.
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July 4, 2019 9:04am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Maybe form a working group to find the reason this happened?
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July 4, 2019 9:08am
- ngatimozart
  
  Don’t forget to hit the taxpayers up for the costs of said working group. Consultants rates too at Michael Cullen’s rates.
  
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  July 4, 2019 1:41pm
MrTips

The art of medicine consists largely of amusing the patient for time enough for nature to effect the cure.
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July 4, 2019 9:14am
- kevn
  
  MrT…. and empty your wallet as nature going through the ‘get better cycle’. 7 days.
  
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  July 4, 2019 9:40am
Tauhei Notts

Readers well call me a religious nut for suggesting that God made childbirth excruciating so that women could experience the pain men go through when men have a common cold.
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July 4, 2019 9:38am
KiWombat

Get well soon DPF !

If you want my grandmothers fixall recipe – just ask, although it didn’t do her much good, she’s been pushing up daisies for about 50 years !
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July 4, 2019 9:40am
Inandout

This old Gypsy recipe:
Juice of 3 large lemons
4 garlic cloves juiced
Honey to sweeten
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp powdered ginger
Mix with 500mls hot water.
In my case I sweated the flu virus away overnight, but haven’t needed it for years.
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July 4, 2019 10:14am
Mobile Michael

Put Phil Twyford in charge of your illness. It will only be 15% of full delivery and every attempt to attack your immune system will be ineffective.
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July 4, 2019 11:33am
johnny78

Maybe the govt can give you a placebo- your told it will work but there is no substance and is an utter failure!. Get better soon!
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July 4, 2019 11:55am
ngatimozart

Get well cobber. My daughter had the flu jab, then got the flu bug about 6 weeks later. She reckoned that she was dying then after a week only half dying. Said she was very glad that she had the jab otherwise she would’ve ended up being a very sick woman and most likely ICU material.

Straight rum and green ginger wine for what ails you. Lots of it. You might end up speaking in cursive like a sailor but then you’ll have advanced in the world. 🙂
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July 4, 2019 1:48pm
gravedodger

Good health David, treat it with everything available and you will be better in a week.
Keep up the fluids, Paracetamol, stay in bed and rest, it will be all over in seven days
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July 4, 2019 4:17pm
Bluegrass

Captain Morgan is your friend.

And according to Kingsley Amis, in his seminal oeuvre ‘On Drink’, Sir Winston Churchill’s breakfasts consisted of “a brace of snipe and a tankard of rum”.

Sir Winston is said to have never caught a cold…
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