Like a single parent. Yep. That's how I felt when my Dad went down with what I assumed was 'stomach-flu'. Weird term? Definitely. Strange collocation? Well, yes. No one probably heard about this kind of sickness before.
It started when my Dad asking for blankets after when he laid down after our trip together from his office. He said he felt extremely cold. His feet were as cold as ice, his fingers too. Strangely, his forehead and his whole body were hot. Decolgen was all he took. It didn't work. His temperature was 39. I could feel how restless his sleep that night. So restless that I gave him two pills instead of one. He started sweating and he could sleep from 3 until 7. Finally, I thought.
I called my sister for prescription and she asked me to give him ottoprim forte 2 X 1, dexanta 3 X 1 and sanmol 3 X 1. The forte is to neutralize the gastric acid, dexanta to help ease the sore and the sanmol for the fever (it contains paracetamol and I heard it's suitable for any fever).
After a 5-day medication, his temperature was normal and he gained his appetite.
It was one of the longest 5 days I have had....
Phew....
2 comments:
Stomach flu is not a strange or even an imaginative disease. It happens (http://mariskova.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-hikari-gets-sick.html). Hikari's doctor in Jakarta told me a few months ago that stomach flu was actually caused by the same virus that causes common cold (or flu). The virus, which usually stays in our respiratory system, gets down to our stomach and causes the stomach flu.
Japanese doctors told us that the disease was quite common for Japanese (children). But, to tell you the truth, I had never heard of it either until Hikari had one in Japan.
So, how's your father?
Up and around with doubled appetite. :-) Thanks.
So this virus can travel long in our body, eh? It's still hard for me to believe.
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