Lowering high body temperature with medication - good or bad?

[Huguenot]

Did you know, it's about 8,000 miles from London to Singapore, and then Melbourne is about 8,000 miles more!

The word 'lurgy' (or 'lurgi') is a great one. Apparently invented by Spike Milligan fore the Goon Show in 1954.

It is so clearly the right word, that it's almost impossbile to believe the word didn't exist before then.

[nikkimax]

Yep thanks Huguenot, it actually feels longer than that in the plane! - doing the trip twice in the next 6 weeks. Now there's a good way to catch more lurgi's!

[brum]

The wonders of the World Wide Web! Welcome to the discussion Nikkimax. Contributions from Australia, Singapore and Peckham too. Marvellous! I'm glad you've found help via this forum and you're feeling better. I've seen the doc and I'm on the mend too, thanks for your best wishes.

[woofmarkthedog]

nikkimax Wrote:

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> I have been searching the internet trying to find

> an answer to this very question, hence came

> across your discussion. I'm not exactly in East

> Dulwich, Melbourne Australia actually. I have to

> say thanks to the Minkey - I have been labouring

> under a fluctuating but generally just sub 40

> degree temp for a couple of days, (monitoring my

> temp often to make sure it's not > 40) there is a

> dreadful lurgy going on over here too and it's

> Autumn and hot. I have been trying not to take

> paracetomol to lower the temp, except at night to

> help me sleep, having heard before about fevers

> being the body's best defense mechanism. The

> Minkey's answer is exactly what I have been trying

> to find out. Feeling better today so think I may

> have cracked it! Could of course just have been

> coincidence and the fever had run it's course but

> it worked for me. Hope you are feeling better

> Brum

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Ohh...nikkimax

You know there is a "Melbourne Grove" in East Dulwich, so now in my mind you reside there in a sub 40 degree perma tropicana. Kangaroos skip down the street & Koalas loll in the branches eating leaves, lapping up the "Oooo's & Ahhhh's" of passing children, you sitting in your "Fosters" deck chair smiling benignly at them

You also sound very sweet for an Aussie, stringing together enough sentences to make a paragraph. Surely you have English parents, or you've read a few books on the subject

Next time you are in England come & visit your new spiritual home, there are a few sad & lonely guys here, bagging yourself a husband would be "easy peasy" i'd say

Take care of your temperature, a sick wife is of no use to anyone...

( though maybe brum would take you on, can you cook & walk in a straight line without tripping over your own tongue? )

W**F

*thwacks imaginary cricket ball with imaginary cricket bat*

[brum]

Bad dog woof. Don't frighten our Antipodean Cousins please. Nikki - he's a good dog really (*pats woof's head and gets a licked finger in the process*)

[nikkimax]

Happy to say W**F that I can answer all 3 questions in the last line in the affirmative. Have already bagged myself a husband however and sadly like the UK they frown upon polygamy here too.

Whilst I don't want to cast aspersions on my fellow Aussies - I am a bona fide Australian with a passport to prove it - I do happen to have a UK one nestling beside it. Born and bred in Edinburgh as a matter of fact.

I am amazed at your description of Melbourne Grove, it's as if you describe the very place I live in, my very street perchance? With the exception of course of the Fosters deck chair. You generally wouldn't even have one if it were free such is the Aussie dislike for the stuff.

Never been to East Dulwich............

[nikkimax]

Ok getting worried now boys...........!

[woofmarkthedog]

nikkimax Wrote:

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> Happy to say W**F that I can answer all 3

> questions in the last line in the affirmative.

> Have already bagged myself a husband however and

> sadly like the UK they frown upon polygamy here

> too.

>

> Whilst I don't want to cast aspersions on my

> fellow Aussies - I am a bona fide Australian with

> a passport to prove it - I do happen to have a UK

> one nestling beside it. Born and bred in Edinburgh

> as a matter of fact.

>

> I am amazed at your description of Melbourne

> Grove, it's as if you describe the very place I

> live in, my very street perchance? With the

> exception of course of the Fosters deck chair.

> You generally wouldn't even have one if it were

> free such is the Aussie dislike for the stuff.

>

> Never been to East Dulwich............

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Nikki...

Don't fret, we wont tell your husband you are trawling the internet for a new man

Anyway Brum is not a real person, "he" is actually a bored Glaswegian housewife with a rich husband who works far out at sea, on an oil rig.

Imagine Blanche du Bois crossed with "wee" Jimmy Cranky, that's brum in a nut shell.

She's a sensitive soul who masquerades as a fireman on here, we go along with it to keep her off the booze

I threw the Fosters deck chair reference in as a lure.

Of course really, now I know you so well it should have been a "Tennants Extra" http://www.cannyscot.com/Tennents_extra_-_500_s.jpg one you'd be lounging on

Do visit "exotic" East Dulwich someday, we too have parakeets squawking "bundaleer" as you say, all day long

It's a veritable paradise

W**F

[brum]

*Blows Woof a Glaswegian Kiss*

[katie1997]

Warning: you may suffer from a flu-like virus and a very high temperature around 3 days after replying to this thread.

PS. My husband works in the oil industry too, he is often at sea. Am I making sense...?

*:-S*

[Ladymuck]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> *:-S*

First time I've seen an emoticon in between *action asterisks*. Made me smile. You may be starting a new trend there katie1997.

[katie1997]

I think I am delerious (sp?) Ladymuck...I probably need to log out before I do anything too stupid :)

[Ladymuck]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> I think I am delerious (sp?) Ladymuck...I probably

> need to log out before I do anything too stupid :)

Do you have a fever too at present?

[katie1997]

Ladymuck Wrote:

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> katie1997 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I think I am delerious (sp?) Ladymuck...I

> probably

> > need to log out before I do anything too stupid

> :)

>

> Do you have a fever too at present?

I will be fine thanks Ladymuck, will go to docs if it persists (e.g. way before 3 weeks!!)

*(tu)*

[katie1997]

Swagger Wrote:

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> Yeah, hot 'n' bothered, Katie?

Yeah, sure am, Swagger.

[woofmarkthedog]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> Swagger Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Yeah, hot 'n' bothered, Katie?

>

>

> Yeah, sure am, Swagger.

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Ohh...

Poor you, all flustered & lonely

What with "him" all away at sea & you crying into "the bottle"

It's a recipe for disaster dear, call the life boat before you sink

PARrrrrrrrrrrp......

W**F

[katie1997]

yes OK

now do you think I should call the doctor about my hypochondria?

[Ladymuck]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> now do you think I should call the doctor about my

> hypochondria?

No - you should get some sleep! Time for bed

*:))*

[woofmarkthedog]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> yes OK

>

> now do you think I should call the doctor about my

> hypochondria?

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You called.....?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-O2eBjiEL.jpg

W**F

[brum]

Och Katie what a small world. Which rig is he on?

Hope you feel better soon.