5 confirmed (?) swine flu cases

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   Hi all -

These are five cases from a family of six that was overwhelmed with the flu two weeks ago. The only person who didn't catch it was the mom, who is going through a flare-up of her MS symptoms.

These cases are from Idaho, and they were taken on Wednesday, 9/16. At the time, up to one-fifth of the students at one of the kids's schools were out with swine flu. Although I don't think there were blood tests done, the staff at the local hospital told the mother that her eldest daughter definitely had swine flu. You'll see that the other cases are similar enough that I gave one remedy to all five.

One of the kids (the first to catch it) had historical lung issues, so his symptoms were a little different from the others (deeper in the respiratory tract).

All of them got Belladonna 30C. One child aggravated but recovered within an hour. Everyone else responded well without aggravation (except for a normal spike in their fevers). All of them had also been on some sort of fever suppressing drug prior to having their cases taken.

I hope this is helpful for people who are starting to see flu cases -

Hart Matthews
Durham, NC

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Wednesday, 9/16, 12 p.m.

- Eldest Daughter - dry cough in morning yesterday, sent to school and kept on coughing, got a sore throat, drinking water through the day, got a headache from the coughing - outside after lunch felt like I was going to barf - last night woke up every half hour because just moving hurts - where? all over, especially legs and back - one spot on back that feels like it's going to cave in on me, hard to breath after I cough - cave in? hurts like needles kind of, like a big piece of metal that's pushing on my side - like it's going to fall into my body and make it hard to breath - expectoration yellow, gross and slimey, tastes like something, tastes salty - throat? really sore when I talk - feels like there's lots of needles kind of closer to my mouth, mostly in the front - head hurts more when she coughs - drinking lots of gatorade because water tastes bad, tastes really bad, tastes like something like really gross like rotten food or something - cold (ice) makes it worse, like there are spikes in the Gatorade - legs feel like jello when I walk, like I'm going to fall down - dizzy, too, standing up, even just laying down, like everything's moving, I have to concentrate on one thing - fever of 101.7, took Tylenol - lying down for a long time, couch feels like it's tipping upwards and will slide her off head first - (Mom) bad stabbing pain in ear (L) that she always gets when she gets sick - eyes sting, sensitive to light

- Middle Daughter - when I drink water I sometimes when I cough it just tastes horrible, when I drink Gatorade sometimes it feels all spiky in my throat - superbad cough sound, like a wolf, hurts so bad when that happens and it's really scratchy and last night I puked like sometimes you puke and then you take a breather and then you puke again - I did that ten times - it was orange and it had chunks of food in it like celery and noodles - really super bad taste - drank before throwing up? drank some Gatorade (yellow, orange) - super bad taste? tastes horrible like that horrible medicine that I had, it stung my throat, tastes, just a really bad mix - throat really itchy right now and I want to cough - cough so big it felt like my throat was breaking and my stomach hurt so bad and my chest felt like it was going to explode - like spikes are trying to get out of it and like there's a bomb in there, like a spiky bomb - where? closer to my throat like around the neck and a little bit lower - headache like a hammer when I try to stand up, when I cough it does a really hard one - try hard not to cough because it hurts so bad - like my heart is in my head - dizziness like the room is spinning, I feel like I'm going to fall on my face when I'm kneeling - when I'm closing my eyes, it feels like my body's going to fall off my bed to the right - feels like the bed's lifting up - can't bend knees, elbows, fingers and all the hinges on me because it hurts so bad, like there's going to be a needle sticking out of my knee when I bend it - at night I shake, only cold if I uncover myself - muscles over the top of R elbow cramping - sleep makes me feel better - I cough a lot in my sleep but it's really good for me (sleep) - liquids really hurt my throat - ice? would really really hurt my throat, I would warm it up first - hot? would feel like burning my throat - (Mom) some expectoration but it was swallowed - eyes sting - 102 degrees

- Mom - eldest daughter's blowing her nose every two minutes, a lot of clear mucous - middle daughter has been really needy, really needs a hug, common for her when she's sick - their dispositions? everyone's been pretty calm, and that's really unusual, very unusual, we're really a rambunctious family - when they were talking to you on the phone I was expecting a lot more drama - drama? tears and long stories - calm? they just seem whipped, defeated - both husband and eldest daughter have had a violent chill early after they got sick, suddenly super super cold, panic thing, I'm freezing, I'm freezing, I'm freezing

- Youngest Daughter - whenever I eat something and it sits in my belly for a while, my tummy starts to sting - it hurts - no throwing up - whenever I cough it feels like a knife is cutting my throat open - better? nothing - worse? eating, coughing - like to eat? tortillas - whenever I walk to the bathroom, my legs start to shake and my legs hurt, it hurts right on my waist kind of and my feet hurt too - it stings - sometimes when I'm watching TV my throat starts to sting - I start coughing a lot and it feels like I'm going to throw up and it hurts - spot on back feels like this little spiky thing that's going to pop out of something - spiky thing? kind of on spine but whenever I rub my back it feels kind of numb a little bit and it hurts kind of, closer to shoulders - head? feels like something's trying to pop out from my head, kind of close around my nose and it hurts - dizzy? whenever I lay down in bed it feels like it's going to fall over on my back

- Husband (from Mom) - defeated - got a panic with his fever last night - had to get up and go to the bathroom three times, when he came back he was icy cold - cough - sore throat - pounding pounding headache and pain in back - he felt like it was stabbing pain that was going to make his back go out, holding lower back - even smallest cough, he was going "oh, no, oh, no" - pounding head and said he couldn't breath - son said the same thing, he was coughing and couldn't breath - vertigo? yes, when he was getting up - really brutal vertigo - holding head really still, he won't turn his head to look at me - 99 degrees

- Mom - sound of everyone's coughing (sounded brassy through the phone)? really shallow hack for a while, then deep lung cough, a real ring to it - sounds ripping to me, like it's tearing them up, really really deep when they get going, almost a bark

- Son - Saturday morning cough, unusual difficulty in track practice, couldn't get air - mid afternoon more fatigued, by evening a dry cough, really feeling tired - Ibuprofen at night - slept in till 9 a.m. on Sunday, usually wake at 5 a.m. - really tired and weak, throbbing headache - feeling like lungs were full of fluid, breath more and more raspy, more and more weak - Monday worst, could hardly move at all - in bed most of the day - Tuesday still at 101.7 - drenched with sweat last night (Wednesday) three or four times, soaked the bed and had to change clothes - energy better today - sore throat? felt like it was deep down in my lungs, like bronchial, progressively moved upwards to where lower jaw meets pharynx, top of neck - pain? just when I swallow - when I breath you can kind of hear the raspiness - takes shallow breaths especially in the evening - feels like diaphragm is cramping, very sore, seizes up when coughing, stops working - happens in sleep, too - concentrate on timing my breath so that I wouldn't panic and seize up (historical) - time my breath so I don't seize up - no dizziness - expectoration? late yesterday and today felt it but too deep to raise - aches? Sunday and Monday very bad muscle aches and a lot of weakness, a lot of back pain, pretty much impossible to move around - tense pain, mid to lower back, thighs (quads), side neck muscles, diaphragm - overwhelming weakness - soreness - diaphragm is a burning pain if you touch it (wrapping fingers under ribs) - food and drink? no appetite for two days, too tired, didn't drink or eat - felt like there was a ball of illness in my abdomen, didn't want to put anything in - yesterday first stool in a couple of days, real aching intestinal pain - cold or hot drinks? herbal tea yesterday, helped loosen things up - last night had iced tea, also helped

- Mom - eldest and middle daughter also complained about not being able to breath with the cough - husband had severe shortness of breath when he was up during the night - son coughs until he feels like his diaphragm is cramping and will no longer take air in - this is a scary feeling for all of them - no one in the family will drink water, as it tastes too bad - they are all very thirsty for Gatorade in various flavors - the kids want to keep wash cloths over their eyes to keep out the light, and our house is not brightly lit

Rx: Belladonna 30C (the potency available from the health food store)

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FOLLOWUP - Mom, Thursday, 9/17/09, 7 p.m.

1st dose - Belladonna 30C about 5 p.m., 9/16 - by 5:30 p.m. eldest daughter was having a panic attack with sharp pains in the side of her chest - terrible fear and cutting pains, yelling out, so mom took her to the emergency room - as they were waiting for the doctor to arrive, she watched the girl improve on the table, watched her relax and breath better - no treatment in ER, but experienced staff confirmed swine flu (actual test?) - with the exception of the son, the others stayed in bed and rested for the remainder of the evening, no repeats of the remedy until the next morning - "this morning [9/17] I thought we were going to be in for another day of not getting out of bed - I gave them doses and they perked really well - youngest daughter got up and went for a walk with me, eldest daughter up reading a book and playing board games an hour later - they built a fort and started tearing up the house again" - husband refused to take another dose for a while after seeing the eldest daughter's aggravation, but mom convinced him to in the late afternoon - he's now standing in the kitchen conversing with the mom while she talks with me on the phone - son got a dose and didn't need a second one, going for walks and doing homework, but has a lingering cough - everyone else coughing? yes, everyone still has a lingering cough

Rx: repeat Belladonna 30 in the morning if coughs not gone, call back if they don't resolve in a day or two

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