Guest guest Posted April 20, 2002 Report Share Posted April 20, 2002 This is interesting. Does anyone have any additional info on eating red meat to recover from salmonella poisoning? Roman Suze Fisher wrote: > she said I had to eat red meat if I wanted to recover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 20, 2002 Report Share Posted April 20, 2002 >>>>Suze Fisher wrote: > she said I had to eat red meat if I wanted to recover. >>>>This is interesting. Does anyone have any additional info on eating red meat to recover from salmonella poisoning? ***whoops! guess I should have been more explicit. the doc didn't recommend red meat in order to recover from *salmonella* poisoning, but moreso from my extremely weakened state. You have to realize my body was so drained from this illness. I had a fever of over 105, and a blood pressure of 50 over 0. I'm not kidding. She told me it was the bp of a corpse! great bedside manner, that doctor. anyway, as you can imagine, i needed food that was going to bring me back from this state, and the doc felt red meat was it. In retrospect, I agree! Suze Fisher Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg/ mailto:s.fisher22@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 20, 2002 Report Share Posted April 20, 2002 At 10:06 PM 4/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: >***whoops! guess I should have been more explicit. the doc didn't recommend >red meat in order to recover from *salmonella* poisoning, but moreso from my >extremely weakened state. You have to realize my body was so drained from >this illness. I had a fever of over 105, and a blood pressure of 50 over 0. >I'm not kidding. She told me it was the bp of a corpse! great bedside >manner, that doctor. anyway, as you can imagine, i needed food that was >going to bring me back from this state, and the doc felt red meat was it. In >retrospect, I agree! In all the " old " literature (Pre WW2) , red meat is considered the cure-all for " getting strength back " for sickly people. And broths, cream, raw eggs, and raw liver (sound familiar). Also hot toddies (red wine with honey and lemon juice). My mother got VERY sick every winter, circa 1930's, with pneumonia, pre-antibiotics, and she got doctored a lot. It's really interesting to see how they treated people before medicine got popular. My grandfather, in his autobiography, said he was happy being a servant in a castle in that " in the castle, we got meat every day " (while on the farm they were often living on potatoes, oatmeal, and some fat). I'd guess that the doctors noticed that the 'rich' folks and their servants were healthier than their poor counterparts. Heidi Schuppenhauer Trillium Custom Software Inc. heidis@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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