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As I recover from the (hopefully) last of my flu, some puzzling ideas come to mind. Perhaps I didn't get the really bad flu virus that's been in the news. If that's what it is, though, I seem to have chanced into a reasonable sequence of treatment. It began with a sore throat, which I attacked with echanacia drops. I took huge doses of Vitamin C. I avoided dairy. Ate a lot of reconstituted chicken broth. I think one of my missteps was to eat solid food too soon, and another was taking in too much sugar. Hot tea has seemed to help, initially green tea, one cup of sore throat remedy tea, and I'll probably have my third lemon-honey-powder infusion when I'm done with this entry.
What I'm wondering is: Why can't modern medicine help treat afflictions like flu in stages? Aren't there researchers and/or physicians who could monitor the balance between depriving the affliction of sustinance while boosting the patient's defenses? It's obvious from any visit to a doctor that the vast majority of patients are bad subjects for monitoring; people generally seem to demand a single magic cure.
I suppose if the flu hadn't been making me stupider than usual, I'd have perused the Web for resource and/or geek sites on the subject. They wouldn't give me much answer to the cultural side of the questions, though.
What I'm wondering is: Why can't modern medicine help treat afflictions like flu in stages? Aren't there researchers and/or physicians who could monitor the balance between depriving the affliction of sustinance while boosting the patient's defenses? It's obvious from any visit to a doctor that the vast majority of patients are bad subjects for monitoring; people generally seem to demand a single magic cure.
I suppose if the flu hadn't been making me stupider than usual, I'd have perused the Web for resource and/or geek sites on the subject. They wouldn't give me much answer to the cultural side of the questions, though.
