Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-24-2009

[andrewducker]

• Eczema link to asthma uncovered
  Same chemical produced in both...
  (tags: eczema asthma biology)
• UK swine flu toll is really 30,000, says leading scientist
  Professor Oxford, of Queen Mary, University of London, believes that thousands of people have caught the virus and suffered only the most minor symptoms, or none at all, over the past weeks, as the new strain of H1N1 has spread nationwide â“ welcome testimony to the mildness of the epidemic to date.
  (tags: disease pandemic)

Comments

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

I was at a music festival the weekend before last with lots of people about including a not insignificant number of Americans and no doubt other nationalities (you can hear the Americans a mile away), when I got back I spent a couple of days feeling like crap and a futher day in bed with what I would describe as flu symptoms. Which is a bit odd because I had flu for about a week about 6 months ago and thus wouldn't expect to get it again so soon. I checked the NHS online and it said to stay indoors and not to bother reporting it unless you had been to Mexico or were known to have come into contact with someone with diagnosed swine flu.

Anyway whatever it was it was milder than the seasonal flu I got before - it was all over by the next weekend. But then I took my usual dose of 5g+ of vitamin C a day which has a good chance of limiting complicating medical conditions even if you don't buy into the overall vitamin C as an antiviral claims.

[giantbedsprings.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for some link the other way (asthma to excema).

I get occasional bouts of excema. I've had some excema around my nose for at least 6 months. I don't want to get heavy drugs from the doctor, but I'm on my last resort gentle treatment. I've even tried vaseline (which I really don't like).