How can you tell you're well enough?
I'm typing this from my comfy, semi-quiet bedroom in the middle of a workday. When Ratbastid's parents came to visit, they brought some crazy nasty cold. I stayed well for a few days, then got sick as hell. I have bronchitis and a throat infection and am on antibiotics and codeine cough syrup (hate). I was out sick most of Thursday, all day Friday and Monday, and tried to go to work today. A supervisor sent me home after finding someone to cover my workload for this afternoon. I thought I was well enough to go, but apparently coughing so hard you break a sweat is indicative of being really really sick. :rolleyes: How do you all know you're well enough to go back to work?
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My wife and I had that cold/flu combo. It started in my sinuses and moved to my throat.
I actually got a stomach virus that had me in the hospital for two days (dehydration and anemia). I suppose my immune system was already weakened by the upper respiratory infection. I usually don't go to the hospital for throwing up ... but I couldn't stop and after 6 hours I would have done almost anything to stop. On the plus side I got morphine and donnatal to control my nausea. I never got the bronchitis part--maybe because I never took the cough syrup and was able to expel the mucous. I also took a lot of Mucinex. I think that cough syrup is a little over-prescribed. It's great when you need to sleep, but taking it all day is bad (my opinion, YMMV). Your body is coughing because it's trying to get mucous out (usually). If you have a dry, unproductive cough that's different. My wife however is still coughing and fighting with bronchitis. This has been going on for a month now. We both got sick around New Year's. She is on a steroid inhaler and antibiotics. The doctors that we see have both told us that this is a particularly nasty one. It starts in the head and sinuses, and by the third week people are either better or they have bronchitis or pneumonia. I usually go back to work a day or two AFTER a fever stops ... or when my doctor says I can. My only concern is with infecting other people. |
I find the policy for a local daycare center to be pretty helpful.
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Good thing too, snowy--those day care centers are just bubbling with illness and infection.
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