I have Haggis Flu!

CrazyWelsh
CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have been struck hard with flu. Not able keep food or liquid down! What best for me to try remain healthy? Obviously no gym, not even long walks with my dog as my chest can not cope. How do you cope? Feel like I am a blob in bed lol.

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  • ladyreva78
    ladyreva78 Posts: 4,080 Member
    As long as you have the flu, you'll probably feel like dog turd.

    Rest, drink plenty to try and stay hydrated, eat (if at all possible) and give your body time to heal.

    Get well soon :smile:
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,407 Member
    Haahaa cool! I hope you feel better :) Just take care of yourself. Lots of fluids, lots of sleep and rest.
  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    Rest, fluids, paracetomol (will bring your temperature down as well as helping with the blinding headache and joint pains).

    If you're having trouble keeping liquids down, take small sips every few minutes.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    I have been struck hard with flu. Not able keep food or liquid down! What best for me to try remain healthy? Obviously no gym, not even long walks with my dog as my chest can not cope. How do you cope? Feel like I am a blob in bed lol.

    Consult your doctor.
    Rest and fluids are probably going to help you get healthier faster.
    Save exercise for when you feel better.
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    Thank you all. I felt little better so thought maybe do little exercise. Very wrong idea! I have made a fort in my living room with my dog and lots of rubbish films lol. Sipping water, little paranoid as I do not want to put on weight I have lost but also do not want to lose weight unhealthy.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Get some Dioralyte if you can (just a sachet you add to water), will help you feel a bit better as it will replace lost electrolytes from the puking.

    And gaining weight shouldn't even cross your mind, your body does need fuel to recover, once you can keep it down.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    It is just flu but as I live in Scotland I call it Haggis Flu lol.

    That's hilarious. I was thinking like keto flu, but from too much haggis.
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    It is just flu but as I live in Scotland I call it Haggis Flu lol.

    That's hilarious. I was thinking like keto flu, but from too much haggis.


    Back home I never got cold or flu. Move to Scotland and the flu hits really hard. Feel like I am being tortured. Have boiled some eggs so will attempt to eat later.
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    Get some Dioralyte if you can (just a sachet you add to water), will help you feel a bit better as it will replace lost electrolytes from the puking.

    And gaining weight shouldn't even cross your mind, your body does need fuel to recover, once you can keep it down.

    Thank you. Have sent boyfriend out to find some. Also boiled some eggs, will try eat little later. Amazing how flu can really make your body feel it shut down.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    Get some Dioralyte if you can (just a sachet you add to water), will help you feel a bit better as it will replace lost electrolytes from the puking.

    And gaining weight shouldn't even cross your mind, your body does need fuel to recover, once you can keep it down.

    Thank you. Have sent boyfriend out to find some. Also boiled some eggs, will try eat little later. Amazing how flu can really make your body feel it shut down.

    Toast is also a good way to reintroduce food. Well maybe, that's what I was always given as a kid.

    I'm Scottish and I reckon the arctic cold to your bones up there just makes everything worse!
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    It is colder here than Wales but I seem to get cold or flu every other month. Nice that does not rain as much here though.

    Will try toast. Guys told me to kiss a haggis haha I see some people fall for that old trick of haggis being an animal that runs around a field. But I do how ever believe kissing Nessie would help hahaha.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Random fact--actual haggis is banned in the US: http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-picks/haggis-banned-usa-6736230
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    Amazing information. I send haggis back home to friends. They joy it. Personally I am vegan but even the vegan haggis is tasty.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    My family swears by slooooowly sipping small amounts of Coke or 7-Up to stay hydrated and settle your stomach. As for food, don't try eating anything until you've gone a few hours without vomiting.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    It is just flu but as I live in Scotland I call it Haggis Flu lol.

    :laugh:

    I'd say eat at maintenance and rest up.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,647 Member
    edited April 2017
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Random fact--actual haggis is banned in the US: http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-picks/haggis-banned-usa-6736230

    This is why nobody likes us.

    It sounds awful, but I'd try it if offered.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Random fact--actual haggis is banned in the US: http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-picks/haggis-banned-usa-6736230

    This is why nobody likes us.

    It sounds awful, but I'd try it if offered.

    Sounds dreadful is actually delicious. Did not know it's banned! I might be taking some Kinder Surprises for a friend, hoping I don't get a fine at customs!
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    It is colder here than Wales but I seem to get cold or flu every other month. Nice that does not rain as much here though.

    Will try toast. Guys told me to kiss a haggis haha I see some people fall for that old trick of haggis being an animal that runs around a field. But I do how ever believe kissing Nessie would help hahaha.

    How long have you lived there? I feel like it rained every other day! And summer is about half the temperature as it is down here (I'm in London now). I moved back for a couple of years and was never warm. Turned into a soft southerner.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Random fact--actual haggis is banned in the US: http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-picks/haggis-banned-usa-6736230

    This is why nobody likes us.

    It sounds awful, but I'd try it if offered.

    Me too (and agreed).
  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,818 Member
    Colder than Wales? My husband is from Wales (we're in the US, in Southern California) and from what he says it sounds cold enough! He said there was cold rain that went sideways. Although he says the Orkneys are a lot colder.
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    VintageFerainine wrote: »
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    It is colder here than Wales but I seem to get cold or flu every other month. Nice that does not rain as much here though.

    Will try toast. Guys told me to kiss a haggis haha I see some people fall for that old trick of haggis being an animal that runs around a field. But I do how ever believe kissing Nessie would help hahaha.

    How long have you lived there? I feel like it rained every other day! And summer is about half the temperature as it is down here (I'm in London now). I moved back for a couple of years and was never warm. Turned into a soft southerner.


    Nearly five years. Do not mind wind,rain etc just hate feeling like my body is trying to shut down. My uncle lives London , always warm when I visit him.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    lkpducky wrote: »
    Colder than Wales? My husband is from Wales (we're in the US, in Southern California) and from what he says it sounds cold enough! He said there was cold rain that went sideways. Although he says the Orkneys are a lot colder.

    Wales is at the south east of the British Isles, Scotland is all north and those several hundred miles make so much difference. And London is weirdly really warm comparatively, most of the summer it's quite humid even if it's rainy and cool a lot of the time (summer is hit and miss).

    You'd be lucky to see anything north of 24 centigrade in summer in Edinburgh which is east central Scotland, the Orkneys are off the far northern coast so it would be pretty hard for them to even get that warm!
  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    lkpducky wrote: »
    Colder than Wales? My husband is from Wales (we're in the US, in Southern California) and from what he says it sounds cold enough! He said there was cold rain that went sideways. Although he says the Orkneys are a lot colder.

    Wow big leep from Wales. Must nice weather there a lot.
  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,818 Member
    edited April 2017
    Just as I expected, my husband (the bugger) provided this load of old bollocks helpful information:-P

    http://thehaggis.com./wild-haggis-all-about-haggis/
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    CrazyWelsh wrote: »
    How do you cope? Feel like I am a blob in bed lol.

    i believe in sleeping sickness away. sleeping and eating watermelon and taking hot baths.

    and when you do start to feel better, take it easy if it was the real flu. don't set yourself up for relapse. you're not going to suddenly gain back 10 pounds by sneezing and drinking fluids.

    *unless the fluids are whiskey, i guess.

  • CrazyWelsh
    CrazyWelsh Posts: 47 Member
    lkpducky wrote: »
    Just as I expected, my husband (the bugger) provided this load of old bollocks helpful information:-P

    http://thehaggis.com./wild-haggis-all-about-haggis/


    Haha so funny. Laughed so much.
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