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Last month I posted my Cure for the common cold is six 102° fevers.
“At the first sign that you are catching a flu, heat your whole body temperature up to a mild fever, 102.0° F, by any means readily available. Use an oral fever thermometer to get it right. Ideally this self-induced fever can be produced by immersing yourself in a bath of 103° F water for five minutes followed by raising the water temperature to 106° F for about ten minutes. After adjusting the bath to 106° F, which will feel a bit uncomfortable, just lie there deep in the water and soak in the heat and let the tub temperature drift back down to about 105° F, by the end of the ten minute period. You may have to reheat the water to keep it at 105°-106° F. Use your oral thermometer to measure your mouth temperature and the bath temperature alternately until your mouth temperature reaches 102° F. After the heat soak get out and towel off. Then rest and perspire and let your body adjust to its natural temperature. Do this two times per day for three days and once a day for three more days. That’s it.”
In discussing this procedure with my friends it seems near impossible for them not to get the wrong idea—that they are cooking the flu germs. It can not be emphasized enough that this is wrong. You can’t kill the germs without killing yourself first because they can take more heat than you can. What is happening with this procedure is that you are alerting your body’s natural infection fighting mechanisms, such as the macrophages, that there is work that they need to be attending to. There are several things that the body does to fight off invading viruses and the only one of them that totally eliminates the flu virus from your body are the antibodies which your body creates to fight that particular virus. The problem is that it takes your body a couple days to learn how to make these specific flu killing antibodies. But once it knows how to create them it sets about totally eliminating those particular viruses from your body. What the flu shot that you get from your doctor does is give your body a sample of some particular flu virus that the Center For Disease Control (CDC) thought was about to become a menace. This shot contains a weakened form of the virulent virus so it doesn’t make you very sick but it gives your body a head start on eliminating that particular virus from your body when you are exposed to it later on.
What the self induced 102° F fever does is to stimulate your body to think that it is being attacked. It doesn’t know what it is being attacked by but it goes into high alert and your macrophages start looking around for something which it identifies as foreign to attack. The problem is that these macrophages are fairly large and they can’t go everywhere the tiny flu virus can go and so the viruses have refuges where they can hide and do some reproduction. But the macrophages can prevent the flu from going into a totally unchecked reproductive expansion. The hot bath procedure slows the virus down enough to give your body time to identify the virus and start making the necessary antibodies. The hot bath procedure isn’t to cook the virus; that can’t work, so don’t do it. The temporary fever alerts the bodies defenses by simulating your body’s inflammation process which gives the warning that the body is being invaded by something foreign.
If you try and heat your body very much above 102° F it will be counterproductive because that excessive heat will weaken you and make you even more vulnerable to getting even sicker. So if you can’t wrap your mind around this concept don’t attempt to do the hot bath technique. This procedure should be started at the very first signs of a flu and not several days into the symptomatic stages. If you are already running a fever there is no need to increase your temperature as your body is already doing that in an effort to fight off the virus.
No one should ever try and do this procedure to another person!!! This is a self-controlled procedure for adults only and you should only be doing it while you want to be doing it and not a moment longer. Another thing I’m afraid some idiotic fools are going to try cooking their kids in an effort to cure their kid’s cold. That is so incredibly stupid that I would say that it is a criminal behavior. If you hear of someone going to do that STOP them by every means possible.
(Update 17 May 2009) I have considered the problem of the common cold and the new Swine Flu at greater length with a list of 16 new suggestions on my blog: Reducing the flu threat for everyone. These will all help reduce the rate of transmission of the virus and if that can be brought to a very low level the flu will die out and become less of a problem.
Discovered this back when I was 11 (thought I was speeding up the metabolic rate of my body to “help” fight the cold). Been using it ever since, but I use a bit of a different way. After a hot bath (which I did once a day usually at night (no clue on temperature… but I always have steam coming off my skin), I usually put my pajamas and put a hat on then slide into the bed to slowly sweat it out as my temperature slowly cools. being older (and married), I can’t seem to do that anymore (possibly cause my wife won’t let me).
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Excellent job! Everything you said is correct.
Thank you for your kind support!
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I gargle with vodka couple times a day at first indication of sensativity, before it becomes sore…heads off most colds from settling in
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I’ve actually tried this before, and have a friend who recommends it, but when I see this: “Do this two times per day for three days and once a day for three more days. That’s it.” it makes me wonder if it really works. Because basically that’s about a week, which is how long it takes for a cold or flu to pass on its own: http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/flu-cold-symptoms
Eric – The difference is that when using the procedure described you never feel sick and don’t develop any snot, and snot is a good measure of how sick you got. Also, since your flu germ load is very low your likelihood of giving it to your friends is greatly reduced.
How do you reconcile this post with your other post here:
http://probaway.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/the-cure-for-the-common-cold-is-six-102-degree-fevers/
I don’t know about you but taking a good hot bath for about 5-10 minutes with some sweat makes me feel a lot better more quickly than without it.
The main point is to use a mouth thermometer to raise your temperature to 102 degrees F. in about 15 minutes and then cooling off naturally. This alerts your body to fight the germs. It is not about cooking the germs! Do this two time a day for three days at the very beginning of a flu, by the third day your body will have developed the anti bodies which will totally eliminate the germs which the macrophages can’t get at. You will feel better for several hours after each bath but it takes three days for the body to get good at wiping out the germs.
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Let me tell you that whereas the concept seem plausible to common public that “self induced fever alerts the macrophages that there is work to be attended”, being a physician myself i consider it a totally rubbish explanation. Let me clarify that body’s natural defence mechanisms and macrophages are neither sleeping nor they get alerted by the fever. In fact fever is a sort of aftermath or by-product when these macrophages go to work. When viruses or other pathogens are destroyed by macrophages, they release many chemical mediators / degradation products, these mediators when reach the hypothalamus (brain) along with blood, set the body’s thermostat to a higher temperature.
The common household beliefs are not always true, if it were then science wouldnt be sleeping over it.
Thank you Doctor for your critique of my common cold treatment theory. – However, I do write from personal empirical, controlled in the details, experience. I clearly admit that this process is experimental, and that anyone using it should consider it an experiment. Whether it is macrophages or something else, I don’t know and don’t claim to know, but only suggest it as a possible explanation for what I have personally observed. I have hoped that some other people would follow the procedures I have stated that quite clearly and ask people who read my blog to maintain a minute by minute diary and observe carefully if they get similar results to mine. I have posted other experiments which have gotten positive responses from those who tried them. http://probaway.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/colonoscopy-or-abduction-by-space-aliens/ It’s an intentionally cute title to grab attention. http://probaway.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/itching-itching-and-more-itching-how-to-stop-itiching/ And several others – I post things from personal experimental observation and not quotes from standard medical treatment sources. Modern medicine has come a long way from when the common joke was, “Half of what they teach you in Med School is wrong, we just don’t know which half.” But, even today the intelligent doctors don’t claim to know everything. A personal friend of mine, whose long career was as an Emergency room doctor favorite joke was, ” Doctors think they are Gods and Emergency Room doctors know they are.” I’m just an experimenter and don’t claim to be a god of any degree, and I know that most of what I try doesn’t work very well, but when it does work well I think it is proper to let the world know. And, so I do. I hope you can appreciate that. Perhaps the fever isn’t only a result of breakdown detritus, but it is part of the interactive feedback communicating system of the body.
U r retarted due go backvto school i have a cold n my son dose to we both have fevers n clds at same time fevers r to raise body temp to kill any bqctiria in tye body u retarted shit stain
Don’t use this on your child. It is only for people over age 18 years who can do this to themselves using a thermometer. The heat doesn’t kill germs. The germs can stand a more heat than you can.
Acutally ur wrong a fever is to kill and bactiria and germs in the body i have a cold now a sever cold or flu but ive been takeing 108 baths to where the water was almost boiling it takes time for u to be ablw to stand that high temp took me a week everyday soaking in a hot bath n i would go up a couple degrees each day now my colds only last for a day or so
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