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• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Placeholder
  Not true in the US at least -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiflu...
• Charlie Stross commented on Placeholder
  Wrong: we have some antiviral drugs these days that are effective against Influenza A and B: oseltamivir and zanamivir, reducing the severity and duration of symptoms by around 1.5 days if treatment is started within 24-48 hours. Problem is, they're not totally effective and they have side-effects; overuse may also lead to the propagation of drug-resistant strains....
• aerynvale commented on Placeholder
  I see someone mentioned the Chinese honey-loquat syrup already, but I wanted to talk a little about it. Chinese cough syrup. Basically, it's Slippery Elm, a demulcent. 635mg/tablespoon, which isn't mentioned in the wiki article there, but that's what it says on the bottle. Looks like molasses, tastes like a ricola. My wife has been suffering from a cough for a few months now, and this has allowed her to get much better sleep than stuff with DXM in it. From our experiences, it doesn't last as long as Robitussin, but it takes effect much more quickly and the effects...
• brucecohenpdx commented on Placeholder
  My wife picked up the flu by going shopping on Thursday; it hit her hard on Friday: dizziness so bad she couldn't stand up without help, and nausea that wouldn't even let her keep water down. It started to fade Saturday afternoon, and is mostly gone now. I tried some googling to see if I could get a differential diagnosis for the particular strain she got, but couldn't find enough info to do that. Now we're waiting to see if I get it. Aren't you glad real viruses can't travel the intertubes?...
• tangurena commented on Placeholder
  I'm not a doctor, but I have had a persistent cough for several months. Repeated trips to various doctors yielded prescriptions that did nothing for the cough. Finally a trip to an ENT resulted in a diagnosis of GERD. So I'm on these mad expensive pills, and the real cure (for me) is to lose weight. I'm only 4 years older than you....