Comments by "rob shirewood" (@robshirewood5060) on "Fever, Fluids, Food in acute infections" video.

  1.  @davebellamy4867  Can also be properly placed but build ups of material can block the tube within the bladder, which is why bladder flushes were authorised by various methods. Good nursing and medical practice avoids such problems most of the time and the correct Fluid Balance regime should always be very strictly carried out. Registered nurses and even students when i entered medicine were taught to be red hot at applying fluid balance regimes for good reasons, in recent years HCA's and lower grade often are not as strict, i am not condemning them all, but i have noticed standard slipping.
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  2.  @marywilliams1573  In my experience God's and Angels are never there when you need them, and prayer does not seem to work when dealing with casualties but a good medic, nurse or Doctor on the spot does, working in medicine usually leads to one of two outcomes either you believe more strongly or you dismiss the whole concept of a God and get on with reality. Truth on the other hand is always critically important and i hate all the lies floating around these days. God bless
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  3. I am also reminded that taking things like Immodium or Lomotil which reduce the motility of the gut in removing bacteria etc is counter to natural processes ie diarrhoea which is flushing the system naturally, i found it more beneficial to not eat but flush with fluids especially fruit juice either complete or diluted to aid the flushing. After resting the gut for a short time a light diet of dry toast, tea without milk, sometime supplemented by Dioralyte js far more effective than the aforementioned medications. I bow to higher knowledge.
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  4. The same as with the cough, we cough to remove airway obstructions or secretions, our natural response, so instead of taking cough suppressants, cough medicines, that reduce or stop coughing what we really need is expectorants, which enhance and encourage coughing. Thus making our natural response greater and more effective. I also know that flat hand percussion , or slapping over the bronchial area stimulates the cilia to move mucus out of the airway faster, thus aiding respiration, and removal of secretions, often referred to as "tenacious fluid", that sticky muck that everyone hates. Personally i also use the power of the lungs to remove secretions by flat hand slapping and inhaling then using the diaphragm and lung power to forcibly "huh huh huh" the fluid up and out if its sticking, rather than the often ineffective simple cough and inevitable sore throat. All of it is effective, and works for me. I never take cough suppressants anymore but if necessary i will take expectorants that encourage coughing in parallel with the other methods which are natural and seem instinctive. Guaiphenesin works for me, along with Olbas oil or Menthol crystal inhalations, and also sniffing salt water with a nasal cup for the sinuses. My grandmother, a nurse learned from her mother that "snotty mucus" soaked handkerchiefs were best soaked in a solution of salt water before washing and sniffing salt water works to reduce the mucus in my nasal passages and sinuses. Finding the perfect concentration of salt and warm water to sniff was trial and error, and normal saline did not seem to work for me, each has to find the level most comfortable for themselves. My sinuses were damaged after being head butted and nose broken working in an NHS A&E Department and having a dental operation later for an abscess in the upper gum due to the injury, in which nasal intubation damaged my Turbinates. Sniffing the salt water helps enormously especially when i get the rare cold or flu or excess mucus from DIY dust or woodworking and also during the Hay Fever (i do not suffer from Hay Fever but do get a build up of pollen) seasons. Sniffing it regularly keeps my breathing more comfortable. All would seem to back up the Canadian Professor's views. As he says the temperature survival range for infections etc is narrow and the hot and cold reaction of the body to try to kill it, so seems logical to assist its efficacy. Love your channel.
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  5. Does anyone remember sniffing Friar's Balsam as a child? Yeuk LOL
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