Thanks TSS... but did you say no cheese.... OMG I don't know if I can cope with that. I work for a company based in Burgundy I have also been told that spicy food can be an issue... I eat a lot of that. My wife says it is because ieat too quickly.
A Spanish nurse has caught Ebola after she touched her face with protective equipment used to treat someone with the virus. How ****ing brainless can you be?????
Spicy food isn't too big a deal, I find, provided it isn't your complete diet. Eating too quickly is an absolute no-no. Either chew your food a bit more, or look up and sit back for a few moments, or engage someone in conversation, or all three of those things. I expect your wife is right. The last thing is, you don't have to give up cheese totally. Most peasant style French and Italian cheeses, for example, are not cheddered, but simple cheese, so you can eat them until the cows come home [sorry]. Actually, goats cheese like feta or similar is completely fine for me. I tend not to eat any cheese these days simply because I broke the habitual connection. We're talking over acid stomach here, of course. Without rushing to the chemist or supermarket to get the Rennies, Gaviscon, or whatever named product we're supposed to use once we've given up putting up with the indigestion, let me put in a word for cider vinegar. Seems an odd thing to mention I know, but a teaspoon to tablespoon measure of that will cure 100% of indigestion events, unless you've got an underlying problem, as I said before. Funnily enough, a tumbler of apple juice will do similar, but with less success. Could be the basis of the old apple per day... saying.
Just been thinking about spicy food, and I remember cutting up several habenero chillies a long time ago, and in the middle of doing that, wiping my eye. Mistake..! OK, not anywhere near the same level of serious consequence, but a similar lack of thought.
But personally, if I was treating someone with a virus, I would be constantly alert to not do anything stupid like that!
Well yes, I entirely agree. One wonders that, just like You or I may take for granted the tools, methods, etc... that we use for our jobs or everyday tasks, this nurse has suffered by not coming out of auto-pilot, so to speak, and making sure she didn't make the mistake.
At 3am this morning I was reading about cider vinegar! Thanks TSS. I will try that now someone has recommended it rather than me becoming an internet doctor.
You know when a player runs onto the pitch, then bends down and kisses the grass...that is how I felt when I realised the forum was back As for indigestion, I found the best drug was ranitidine once a day, but since my heart op I haven't had any symptoms, so I presume it is my diet change: less meat and fatty foods, chocolate etc, more fish and veg.
Yes, I've accidentally done that too. It's the example which proves that washing one's hands before, and after, is the best procedure.
I've no doubt you'll get success with cider vinegar. All the better because it's a natural product, in a sense. Also, I've never known a medicine like Rennie or Milk of Magnesia to go well with a salad or to enhance the flavour of a curry in cooking. BTW, yeah, it's unpleasant by the spoonful [unless you like it], but it's a damn sight nicer than indigestion. Take it, wait 1-10 minutes. Job done. Until the next time you overdo it, of course. You'll find that with increasing age, the more you overdo it, the less your system will put up with it, until one day you really do have a major digestive problem, so start a slow easing off process from now on, is my advice. You can still go crazy every now and then. Just know that you'll be paying for it.
A tip someone gave me was to put some olive oil on your fingers before cutting the chillies, makes it easier to wash the stingy stuff off afterwards. Seems to work!
Yep, not a bad tip that, though I'd rather take the Olive Oil internally and just go carefully. I'm an Olive Oil addict. Extra Virgin, of course. Love the stuff. It's easily the main reason why I'm overweight, so backing off that just a bit has made my weight drop almost 10 pounds in something like a month, with no other change in lifestyle. Perhaps I'll have a bit spare to rub into the fingers.
A Saudi Arabian woman attending a football match in UAE sparked outrage by the male population of Saudi Arabia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29527556 This will not please Fran.
