hey watch it ya'll...i AM preggers...& sick. my son got strep throat earlier this month but missed 4 days of school due to fevers BEFORE we finally found out it was strep...we thought it was the flu since the school nurse told us they had a confirmed case of flu in the school that week.
anyways he got some antibiotics and after finishing them we thought he was good as gold again so i shared a plate of pie with him...BIG NO-NO, as i'm finding out now...and we had to pick up our daughter from school the other day for a major sore throat. tuesday night i had my bf take all of us to the doctor (e.r since the offices were closed by the time he got paid and we could get gas to go anywhere) and they did a rapid strep on all of us...came up negative but the doc decided to put us all on antibiotics just in case.
now...the kiddos are feeling good enough to go to school but i'm gonna be miserable for some time. usually my home remedy for a cold is chicken noodle soup, HOT green tea with honey, bolthouse farms c-boost orange juice and echinacea. those last 2 help me get rid of a cold within a week tops but...since i'm preggers now i cant take echinacea so...yeah. but this is not a cold you speak of so...i guess for the flu i just try to stay hydrated as best as i possibly can but usually i end up in the hospital with severe dehydration despite my best efforts.
good luck...