Had lunch with a couple who had Norovirus last week -- how worried should I be?

[Anonymous]

How do they know it wasn’t food poisoning? In any event, you should be fine, OP!

[Anonymous]

I had a terrible stomach virus this year. Lost about 10 pounds. My husband was fine and he was sharing my bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

None of this will do a single thing to help, this is such an odd list of advice. OP you don’t give much of a timeline but if it was “last week” and you’re still not sick you’re good to go.

You are an idiot.

These are go-to for any kind of illness or exposure. The warm liquids and hot soaks are based on Chinese medicine and many other cultures. It helps to raise body temperature and create a fake "fever" to kill pathogens. In any case, it lowers your pathogen/viral load. Hyderation is extremly important to combat and recover from Norovirus.

Manuka honey, turmeric and salt gargles - many kinds of alternative medicines and western scientifically tested methods to kill or flush out pathogens. Curcumin in turmeric is effective against Norovirus according to NIH. Please, start

Same for using breath manipulation to change the ph in your lungs for short durations. Also, strengthens your lungs and sends more oxygen to combat pathogens.

You could also take warm showers and take zinc lozenges and multi-vitamins. Does it help with Norovirus? No, but there are always pathogens in our bodies and you are making your body overall healthier to combat Norovirus. Remember, unless the viral load of norovirus is high enough to overwhelm your immune system, your body can usually fight the norovirus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

None of this will do a single thing to help, this is such an odd list of advice. OP you don’t give much of a timeline but if it was “last week” and you’re still not sick you’re good to go.

No we don't know that if last week was Friday she can still get sick. OP keeps coming back but won't say the day.

[Anonymous]

Eat some probiotics too. Some yogurt or keffir. You gut will fight it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

You don’t need to do this OP. You are fine because you ate at restaurant.

—had norovirus last year and slept next to DH who didn’t get it AND have health anxiety. A better use of time is work on the anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

None of this will do a single thing to help, this is such an odd list of advice. OP you don’t give much of a timeline but if it was “last week” and you’re still not sick you’re good to go.

You are an idiot.

These are go-to for any kind of illness or exposure. The warm liquids and hot soaks are based on Chinese medicine and many other cultures. It helps to raise body temperature and create a fake "fever" to kill pathogens. In any case, it lowers your pathogen/viral load. Hyderation is extremly important to combat and recover from Norovirus.

Manuka honey, turmeric and salt gargles - many kinds of alternative medicines and western scientifically tested methods to kill or flush out pathogens. Curcumin in turmeric is effective against Norovirus according to NIH. Please, start

Same for using breath manipulation to change the ph in your lungs for short durations. Also, strengthens your lungs and sends more oxygen to combat pathogens.

You could also take warm showers and take zinc lozenges and multi-vitamins. Does it help with Norovirus? No, but there are always pathogens in our bodies and you are making your body overall healthier to combat Norovirus. Remember, unless the viral load of norovirus is high enough to overwhelm your immune system, your body can usually fight the norovirus.

DP. If Chinese medicine is so great, why did Covid and SARS originate there and why weren't these superior methods able to contain it?

And changing body pH is unscientific garbage. The body has many mechanisms to tightly regulate pH to stay within an extremely narrow range around 7.4, because if it doesn't stay in this range, the consequences are seizures, coma, and death. The only method to make it deviate from this range for any length of time is to become extremely sick, such as septic shock, kidney failure, or DKA. You can hold your breath or hyperventilate if you want, but all that will do is make you dizzy or pass out. In which case you will be vomiting anyway from the concussion you get hitting your head on the way down, and your pH will still be 7.4.

[Anonymous]

You encounter it all the time unknowingly.

To feel better, plan for illness. Have fluids already in house. Have a separate area ready with tv stuff

[Anonymous]

You will get Noro virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

None of this will do a single thing to help, this is such an odd list of advice. OP you don’t give much of a timeline but if it was “last week” and you’re still not sick you’re good to go.

You are an idiot.

These are go-to for any kind of illness or exposure. The warm liquids and hot soaks are based on Chinese medicine and many other cultures. It helps to raise body temperature and create a fake "fever" to kill pathogens. In any case, it lowers your pathogen/viral load. Hyderation is extremly important to combat and recover from Norovirus.

Manuka honey, turmeric and salt gargles - many kinds of alternative medicines and western scientifically tested methods to kill or flush out pathogens. Curcumin in turmeric is effective against Norovirus according to NIH. Please, start

Same for using breath manipulation to change the ph in your lungs for short durations. Also, strengthens your lungs and sends more oxygen to combat pathogens.

You could also take warm showers and take zinc lozenges and multi-vitamins. Does it help with Norovirus? No, but there are always pathogens in our bodies and you are making your body overall healthier to combat Norovirus. Remember, unless the viral load of norovirus is high enough to overwhelm your immune system, your body can usually fight the norovirus.

Send along your peer reviewed research for literally any of these claims. The time to “boost” your immune system is before you are exposed to Norovirus. Once you’re exposed, you’re either fighting it off based on your own innate immunity or you aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

None of this will do a single thing to help, this is such an odd list of advice. OP you don’t give much of a timeline but if it was “last week” and you’re still not sick you’re good to go.

You are an idiot.

These are go-to for any kind of illness or exposure. The warm liquids and hot soaks are based on Chinese medicine and many other cultures. It helps to raise body temperature and create a fake "fever" to kill pathogens. In any case, it lowers your pathogen/viral load. Hyderation is extremly important to combat and recover from Norovirus.

Manuka honey, turmeric and salt gargles - many kinds of alternative medicines and western scientifically tested methods to kill or flush out pathogens. Curcumin in turmeric is effective against Norovirus according to NIH. Please, start

Same for using breath manipulation to change the ph in your lungs for short durations. Also, strengthens your lungs and sends more oxygen to combat pathogens.

You could also take warm showers and take zinc lozenges and multi-vitamins. Does it help with Norovirus? No, but there are always pathogens in our bodies and you are making your body overall healthier to combat Norovirus. Remember, unless the viral load of norovirus is high enough to overwhelm your immune system, your body can usually fight the norovirus.

"Curcumin in turmeric is effective against Norovirus" has only been studied in vitro. There's no reason to believe it would be effective taken orally.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6274093/

Zinc has some undesirable side effects.

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/zinc-and-colds-whats-the-final-answer/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the lunch, they told us they had Norovirus last week -- and lost 4 pounds - ha ha! I have extreme health anxiety around that illness and am trying not to spiral. How worried should I be? Anything I can do to strengthen my immune system, beyond handwashing?

Try taking some wedderspoon manuka honey. It kind of helps with illness that comes from GI or respiratory issues.

Go do salt gargle.

Drink lots of warm liquids - lemon water, turmeric milk, green tea, chicken soup.

Change the ph of your body by doing some breathing exercises. (Tummo Breathing - school of breath)

Soak in hot baths.

None of this will do a single thing to help, this is such an odd list of advice. OP you don’t give much of a timeline but if it was “last week” and you’re still not sick you’re good to go.

You are an idiot.

These are go-to for any kind of illness or exposure. The warm liquids and hot soaks are based on Chinese medicine and many other cultures. It helps to raise body temperature and create a fake "fever" to kill pathogens. In any case, it lowers your pathogen/viral load. Hyderation is extremly important to combat and recover from Norovirus.

Manuka honey, turmeric and salt gargles - many kinds of alternative medicines and western scientifically tested methods to kill or flush out pathogens. Curcumin in turmeric is effective against Norovirus according to NIH. Please, start

Same for using breath manipulation to change the ph in your lungs for short durations. Also, strengthens your lungs and sends more oxygen to combat pathogens.

You could also take warm showers and take zinc lozenges and multi-vitamins. Does it help with Norovirus? No, but there are always pathogens in our bodies and you are making your body overall healthier to combat Norovirus. Remember, unless the viral load of norovirus is high enough to overwhelm your immune system, your body can usually fight the norovirus.

Honestly I’m 100% fine with you thinking that. I’ll save my money and just take real medicine when I need it.

[Anonymous]

Well, OP. Did you or didn't you?

[Anonymous]

Last week?? You are fine!

[Anonymous]

You will likely be ill.