I'm at the end of a very difficult bout of food poisoning. I've identified the cause as a aloe vera juice I was using to make homemade mouthwash with.
Yesterday, I was throwing up virtually every hour, most of the time with nothing there to come up and just uncomfortable, uncontrollable dry retching. Drinking water only made the urge worse. I was searching desperately on the net for anything herbal or common to stop the vomiting. Neither ginger tea nor baking soda helped, celery root extract helped a bit, and colloidal silver throat spray definitely helped. (Fortunately, I already owned all these and didn't have to leave home. My kitchen pill drawer might as well be its own supplement store, and, yes, I do use it with good results.) I was still feverish today but went to class anyway to pick up a take-home midterm. I felt yesterday's day-long break from the world, which involved cancelling therapy with a client, was enough and it was time to return to responsibilities.
Tried to eat again tonight for the first time in 2 days, but I couldn't get much down and felt pain in my chest from yesterday's heaving. I won't complain about the weight loss, although I'm sure a good portion is water loss. I'm close to 120 lbs now. I made sure to take potassium tablets when my legs started cramping, which helped ease the charlie horse I got twice.
Wow, no more aloe taken internally for me. I have to say that I did enjoy my time alone, particularly, lying in the bath with warm shower droplets pouring down over me, just reading ingredients on all my cosmetics bottles to compare products for no good reason and listening to the water fall into the gathering pool. I'm rarely this meditative and usually constantly mentally active.
Yesterday, I was throwing up virtually every hour, most of the time with nothing there to come up and just uncomfortable, uncontrollable dry retching. Drinking water only made the urge worse. I was searching desperately on the net for anything herbal or common to stop the vomiting. Neither ginger tea nor baking soda helped, celery root extract helped a bit, and colloidal silver throat spray definitely helped. (Fortunately, I already owned all these and didn't have to leave home. My kitchen pill drawer might as well be its own supplement store, and, yes, I do use it with good results.) I was still feverish today but went to class anyway to pick up a take-home midterm. I felt yesterday's day-long break from the world, which involved cancelling therapy with a client, was enough and it was time to return to responsibilities.
Tried to eat again tonight for the first time in 2 days, but I couldn't get much down and felt pain in my chest from yesterday's heaving. I won't complain about the weight loss, although I'm sure a good portion is water loss. I'm close to 120 lbs now. I made sure to take potassium tablets when my legs started cramping, which helped ease the charlie horse I got twice.
Wow, no more aloe taken internally for me. I have to say that I did enjoy my time alone, particularly, lying in the bath with warm shower droplets pouring down over me, just reading ingredients on all my cosmetics bottles to compare products for no good reason and listening to the water fall into the gathering pool. I'm rarely this meditative and usually constantly mentally active.