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Can you get hold of Salbutamol? comes as inhaler/liquid/caps

it could help free up your lungs a little.
Careful with such advice, it's likely C19 and you can't just use regular flu advice...

My partner, which is quite healthy, got it several months ago (untested) and he said the breathing difficulty is quite intense and makes you panic. He decided at some point in the process to go all zen and just not worry. It passed eventually.
 

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Careful with such advice, it's likely C19 and you can't just use regular flu advice...

My partner, which is quite healthy, got it several months ago (untested) and he said the breathing difficulty is quite intense and makes you panic. He decided at some point in the process to go all zen and just not worry. It passed eventually.

Salbutamol is just used to relax the muscles in the lungs and is dispensed for virtually every condition that causes difficulty breathing, even things like COPD that aren't really a conventional disease. They even give it to kids for asthma.

Its not really a flu medication.
 

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Bio! Come give me a hug! Really need some comforting!

Started to bath the damned offspring and noticed red spots, think the little bastard has chicken pox as well now.

Jesus, you must have really pissed off someone who's gone to a witch doctor or voodoo priest about you.
 

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Salbutamol is just used to relax the muscles in the lungs and is dispensed for virtually every condition that causes difficulty breathing, even things like COPD that aren't really a conventional disease. They even give it to kids for asthma.

Its not really a flu medication.
Just saying, don't take advice from the internet...
 

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That's not from the internet, its personal knowledge. It's likely POM only iirc so he'd likely need to ask his quack for it anyway.
I'm all for researching your condition once you've been to a doctor. But be careful of internet advice. That said I had a spider bite on my head about 10 years ago, checked it in the mirror, checked the internet, and went with it's going to be ok more than likely... worked out ok. But could easily have been cytotoxic (?).
 

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I'm all for researching your condition once you've been to a doctor. But be careful of internet advice. That said I had a spider bite on my head about 10 years ago, checked it in the mirror, checked the internet, and went with it's going to be ok more than likely... worked out ok. But could easily have been cytotoxic (?).

Any bites are a different thing altogether, proper medical treatment should always be option 1, it's all to easy to mis-identify what bit you.

Salbutomol for difficulty breathing isn't far removed from telling someone to have ibuprofen or paracetamol for a headache (there's actually fewer side effects or contraindications compared to those).
 

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Any bites are a different thing altogether, proper medical treatment should always be option 1, it's all to easy to mis-identify what bit you.

Salbutomol for difficulty breathing isn't far removed from telling someone to have ibuprofen or paracetamol for a headache (there's actually fewer side effects or contraindications compared to those).
Ok, guess I'm just C19 paranoid.
 

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I'm all for researching your condition once you've been to a doctor. But be careful of internet advice. That said I had a spider bite on my head about 10 years ago, checked it in the mirror, checked the internet, and went with it's going to be ok more than likely... worked out ok. But could easily have been cytotoxic (?).
/sends more spiders
 

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Salbutamol is just used to relax the muscles in the lungs and is dispensed for virtually every condition that causes difficulty breathing, even things like COPD that aren't really a conventional disease. They even give it to kids for asthma.

Its not really a flu medication.
Essentially the content of an asthma pump
 

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I have this peculiar feeling of anticipation.
The last time I had this was decades ago waiting for a boat I had ordered to be delivered - a combination of that kind of anticipation, and what I used to call "pre jol angst" on a Friday evening
 

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Spiders are fascinating - at a distance

I was removing an old Armed response sign from my outside wall to paint it. I put my hand on the corner to give it a tug and this popped out from behind.

Safe to say I had to change my undies.

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I was removing an old Armed response sign from my outside wall to paint it. I put my hand on the corner to give it a tug and this popped out from behind.

Safe to say I had to change my undies.

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Oh, fuck that!!
 
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