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Does anyone know a good way to tell a cold or flu vs. die off symptoms?
For example, I'm a current patient of Matia. I started my husband taking some probiotics about a month ago to help improve his immunity coming into the winter months. We are in a high risk industry and exposed to a lot of germs on a regular basis. He handled the probiotics with no problem....he's taking one Mega and one Bif a day. He's now been sick with a really sore throat and heavy, congested chest for 3 days now which is highly unusual for him. He never used to get sick until about a year ago. He would get sniffles for a half a day while the rest of us were out for a week with the flu. I find it interesting that though we spent time together before his recent symptoms began, I haven't gotten sick! I'm so happy, a true testament to the healing going on....but then I wonder, is he sick or is he experiencing some effect from the probiotics, even though it's been a month on them? I obviously don't want to bother Matia with this since he isn't her patient, and he's going to a regular doctor tomorrow, but I don't want them putting him on antibiotics unless truly necessary. I know he can handle waiting it out a few more days, but all these sick calls from work are not good and really worry me that something worse may be going on.
Well see if he is sick there
Well see if he is sick there would be herbs that would be better to take. Since he doesn't have IC you could take him to a local herblist there as well so that you have some guidence. IF he isn't normally sick and just started those he might be having die off. Die off is usually more short lived then a real cold or flu but if he has been on a lot of meds in the past or underlying yeast it may just be rearing its head out. I have come down with some nasty flu symptoms along with high feavers. I always just told Matia and normally she would either ride it out or back the dose down. Backing the dose down once something gets going like that doesnt stop it it just lessens the time although now if that happened to me i wouldn't want to back down. Sometimes I will know it's die off because I have that drunk feeling really bad a long with it. I have not gotten an actual cold since being with Matia at ALL and that is including from my first time around so knock on wood its been 4-5 yrs since I have had a cold. Its hard to answer your question because you just get to know what die off feels like as apposed to what your body feels like when your sick its a little different. Not everyone gets this kind of die off either. I hope i helped somewhat.