EBOLA For those of you who think they can save themselves and others from Ebola

naturallysweet

Has No Life - Lives on TB
With basic care (rehydration fluids and food), the survival rate is closer to 50%. I'd run in front of a bus going 70 mph to save my nieces or nephews, knowing that I'm probably going to die trying to save them. I'm not abandoning them to die alone from Ebola when there is a small chance of saving them.

My plan is still lock down and go nowhere when the time comes. But what good is it to live, if I can't live with myself afterwards. I can walk away from dying strangers. But I will NOT abandon sick children in my family!!!
 

Terrwyn

Veteran Member
The question I keep having is if being sick to your stomach is part of this illness what good will it do to try and give pills and fluids by mouth?
I remember having the stomach flu and it was impossible to keep any thing down at all except a little ginger ale for days.
 

Reasonable Rascal

Veteran Member
The question I keep having is if being sick to your stomach is part of this illness what good will it do to try and give pills and fluids by mouth?
I remember having the stomach flu and it was impossible to keep any thing down at all except a little ginger ale for days.

Advanced medical prepping includes planning ahead and having on hand what you can reasonably acquire in preparation. There are remedies ranging from herbal teas, to Benadryl, to relatively simple medications such as oral Phenergan or Reglan.

Rehydration can be accomplished via the technique of proctoclysis, which almost anyone can learn to perform AND acquire the necessary tools for.

RR
 

Thunderbird

Veteran Member
What is the basis of your assertion that colloidal silver and other preventive measures categorically will not work?
 

skip1

Membership Revoked
If It is Airborne

Read this blogspot. http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/surfing-usa.html

Maybe you'll wake up and face reality. The only way you can save yourself is to not get the disease in the first place and the ONLY way you can do that is to stay away from those that have it. Colloidal silver vitamin C and all the other snake oil people here are trying to sell you on AIN'T GOING TO WORK!!!

Passed on just as the flu or a common cold.
 

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
The question I keep having is if being sick to your stomach is part of this illness what good will it do to try and give pills and fluids by mouth?
I remember having the stomach flu and it was impossible to keep any thing down at all except a little ginger ale for days.
Take the time and effort to GO GOOGLE AND LEARN BASIC SELF CARE!

I know a nurse who is continually AMAZED AT HOW STUPID YOUNGER ADULTS HAVE BECOME!

They can't stop texting and gaming long enough to GO LEARN what to do FOR AN ORDINARY HEADACHE, DIARRHEA, cold, CONSTIPATION, SMALL CUT, MINOR SKIN INFECTION, MINOR SORE THROAT, OR other utterly minor medical condition that should not be brought to Emergency FOR INITIAL ATTEMPT AT TREATMENT!

Why should young people (before Ebola even) tie up ER personnel because they DID NOT EVEN TRY TAKING ANYTHING AT ALL FOR THEIR HEADACHE??

You should know at least 3 ways to treat nausea without professional medical intervention. SUCH KNOWLEDGE USED TO BE CONSIDERED PART OF BEING A FULLY CAPABLE ADULT WITH "common sense".
 
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Broken Arrow

Heathen Pagan Witch
The question I keep having is if being sick to your stomach is part of this illness what good will it do to try and give pills and fluids by mouth?
I remember having the stomach flu and it was impossible to keep any thing down at all except a little ginger ale for days.

Rectal insertion
 

bluelady

Veteran Member
As Aint said, there are a variety of techniques. Even if they don't end up saving any ebola patients, there is always the chance that something might if there was no other hope available. Plus they would be useful for other ailments, especially in the light of trying to stay away from the public in general, and ER's in particular.

Depending on the symptoms, oral and rectal can work. We're used to oral as in swallowing, but sublingual works for things that can be absorbed through mucous membranes, and when swallowing is difficult or impossible. Rectal involves suppositories or enemas, both available in drugstores.

Some things can be administered through the respiratory system: by nebulizer, inhaler, or diffuser. Also absorption through the skin: essential oils, and remembering my grandma's mustard plasters.

It's been emphasized in other threads, but I'll say it again here: No one is saying these are Ebola cures. But there is evidence that some types of supportive care strengthen the body or immune system so it can possible outlast the virus. Ebola is NOT 100% fatal, even in third-world, less-than-perfect conditions. Of course, trying it on your own is a life-or-death risk, but one that many of us here are willing to take in certain circumstances out of love for others.

I've been super busy/distracted lately, but I am back on getting serious about preparing to shelter in place, prevent exposure, and learn to treat what I can. I know there is an alternate Ebola treatment thread here somewhere; going to hang out there and educate myself.

I do believe in hope and miracles.
 

babysteps

Veteran Member
Here's the thing, and it's what I suspect all of us that are looking into anything and everything we **might** be able to do for husbands, wives, children, parents.

Yeah, I'm very well aware that the odds are seriously stacked against me, if one of my immediate family comes down with it despite self-quarantine.

I'll still give it a try, because to NOT try is unfathomable. I may have only a 10% chance of helping them survive, or of surviving myself... but if I *don't* try, that percentage goes to 0.
 
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