Over the last few days life has been giving me a little reminder about the usefulness of Homeostasis…
On Wednesday afternoon I felt a little under the weather and by the evening I was throwing up in a big way. Eventually the effort of it all drained me to the point where I fell asleep. By the morning I was feeling much better, or so I thought. For the most part the vomiting had finished, but it seemed like my body had totally forgotten it had a homeostatic mechanism for regulating its temperature. I had the usual stuff you get when you are ill, like cold sweats one minute, then feeling really hot the next. The difference this time was I seemed to react really quickly to the temperature of food and drinks I consumed. If I ate some hot (temperature, not spicy) food I would quickly start sweating like a racehorse. Have a cold drink and it would be uncontrollable shivering. Kinda freaky.
For the last few days I’ve been cycling between bed, hot baths and the computer. I think I managed my body temperature pretty well if I do say so myself.
Today is the first day the whole temperature regulation thing seems back to normal, but my throat feels a little dodgy. The joys of secondary infections. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
PS. This blog post is sponsored by Lemsip. The universal cure-all. 🙂
Lemsip – in the “good old days” it was a decent product, lots of paracetamol and perhaps a slightly above legal dose of pseudoephidrine…
Nowadays, just the same as any old pain relief…sad sad sad 🙂
Tim,
Sorry to hear about your illness- a similar flu-like thing hit me a year ago. Take lots of vitamin C, echinancea and goldenseal once you stop vomiting to speed up recovery for immune system. Hope you get well soon!
Cheers,
Ben