Sick with covid, treating at home. Advice?

[Jason_2111]

Yup, the fun keeps coming. I'm evacuated from the caldor fire and in a house where everyone got sick with covid.

At this point, it's like a really bad chest cold with headache and sinus. Taking tons of C, D, Zinc, robotussin, and sleep. This sucks big time, especially since I'm not home, and have a very real fear of the local hospital where I almost died last March.

So guys, any of you that beat this thing, what did you do? This is day 4.

Thanks!

[AlienHobo]

Add Quercetin. It helps the zinc get into the cells to stop the Covid from reproducing.

[SPUTTER]

Not sure if you're taking the supplements in tablet form but I recommend liquid just to make sure it's absorbed into the body rather than taking the chance of pooping them out. Just make sure you mix the zinc liquid in juice because the taste is horrible.

[therealnickb]

Lots of water. Rest. (Seriously, rest) Eat whatever you can. I did mostly soup.

Just give your body the best tools to fight it.

[2shotjoe]

Take your pills with food, allow yourself to digest it. No snacks. Plenty of water and electrolytes. Keep track of your Temps and o2.

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[suicidesam]

Whiskey…lots and lots of whiskey

[jsanch03]

[user120312]

Monitor your oxygen saturation and body temperature and other vitals. I've had it a couple times, and am 60's, and dealt with it completely alone except for the cat which of course needed care. I used typical flu care and the worst case, from March 2020, resolved in a week or so. I was sick during H3N2 and this was pretty mild in comparison. No vomiting or diarrhea and comparatively minor temperature; I remember 103-104 and cold compresses and a trip or two to the bathtub back in '69.

Best wishes for a full recovery.

[axhoaxho]

Niece is a Surgical Nurse student, graduating in a few months.

She got so-called Covid ()

She took a lot of rest at home, turned on the air purifier (smoky air from wildfire got people sick,) drank plenty of fluid, took Vitamin C, and went for a warm chicken soup diet.

She recovered 100% in a couple weeks.

Take care OP, and speedy recovery.

[DentonandSasquatchShow]

OP pretty much the same thing you're doing but we used day/night Mucinex.

My wife is a nurse so she had access to hydroxychloroquine. We took it but there's really no way of knowing if it helped or not. My worst symptoms were being tired and congestion. My wife had the same with a bad headache.

Good luck to you. Look on the bright side, once its over you'll have natural immunity.

[MJB]

It's just like the flu for the most part.
You'll be fine......

[Palmaris]

One more-get ZPak and take full course. Local medical facility should be able to give you prescription.

[hermosabeach]

3 crap weeks

Watch some u tube videos on breathing exercises

Sitting around or resting you don't use all of your lungs

Deep inhale and blow out through a straw

Get air all through your lungs

Lots of simple exercises they have old folks do in the hospital to keep the lungs clear.

[Snagglepuss]

Drink raw local honey!!

[Yugo]

Yup, the fun keeps coming. I'm evacuated from the caldor fire and in a house where everyone got sick with covid.

At this point, it's like a really bad chest cold with headache and sinus. Taking tons of C, D, Zinc, robotussin, and sleep. This sucks big time, especially since I'm not home, and have a very real fear of the local hospital where I almost died last March.

So guys, any of you that beat this thing, what did you do? This is day 4.

Thanks!

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