Hey, what is up to everybody! So today I'm getting personal my daughter contracted and infected of coronavirus, luckily she is better now but now my husband has it. I want to talk to you today about how to manage or so far to escape from getting it. What our home treatment plan has been and how we set up our apartment to keep six feet apart. I'm Risa Morimoto your host and you're watching modern aging where we chat about innovative and holistic ways to optimize our health and well-being. Okay so let's be real this all feels like a ridiculous bad joke or something and I wouldn't it be great to just wake up from this nightmare of a movie that has become. Our lives well no such luck not in my family, my family's been hit by this coronavirus so we've been forced to face this pandemic head-on. I want to share our experience with you so that perhaps you can find something useful and what we did if you find yourself in the same predicament at the time it really and when it happened. It felt like an uncontrollable crisis but it did become manageable once we put systems in place first off.

I just want to say there's a lot of anxiety about there whether or not people think they have symptoms the anxiety and fear are real but we also have to take a step back and not freak out because of the anxiety may be actually making things appear worse than they actually are, so take a deep breath and if you're incessantly watching the news you have to stop because it's not helping so here's what happened and what we did so my teenage daughter. She came over in school not feeling well a couple of weeks ago and this is when the hysteria was beginning and we were starting to see that this pandemic was real and coming to our towns and coming very soon I have to be honest, at the time I completely freaked out and I lost it but then I got into my producer mode, you know for all those producers out there you know exactly what I'm talking about because when that hits the fan you have to solve problems and so that's what I did, so she had the classic symptoms of fever and dry cough, but luckily nothing else we gave her Tylenol for the fever but really the COFF nothing, except for maybe some cough drops. From time to time the real question was this Kovac 19? I called around to try to get her tested but it was impossible and apparently they're just not enough tests to go around and the ones that they do, they're using on severe cases only so we were left to our own.

Well, honestly we'll never know for sure if she had coronavirus unless she can get an antibody test but at the time we were told to treat it as though. She did so that's what we did and luckily she's a teenager or so and not a toddler so she could take care of herself, for the most part, we quarantined her in her bedroom and we designated one of the two bathrooms for her to use only. She stayed in her room for about four

days which is about how long her illness lasted for her. I did not go into her room and anything that she needed I put by her door. Her meals were brought to her in her room I was the only person to touch the tray. I washed or cleanup my hands from the virus, like crazy and I wore a mask and so did chief. We

had to interact at all it was honestly very tough for her to stay in a room of course, but then she got to set up her computer so she could watch Netflix which normally we would not allow, but because we did life became a little bit more bearable for her. Once we started feeling better she was allowed to come out of her room and as long as she was careful. What she touched, she washed her hands a lot and she disinfected from the virus, and whatever she touched she wore face masks outside of her bedroom. As did I when we would interact we washed all her bedding and clothes the CDC.

Now says for those who have had symptoms and not tested for Kovan 19 and now feeling better, there are three markers you should lookout

to determine if they are still contagious numbers and one they've had no fever for 72 hours that is without the use of any medicine. Number two, their symptoms have improved as if they had a cough or sore throat and number three, seven days have passed since their symptoms first appeared and if you check off all three then the person is probably no longer contagious like my husband's case, unfortunately, he has been a little bit different, his virus started with a cough and then a few days he developed a fever with aches and pain. He's been taking Tylenol but after a few days his fever is still up and hasn't yet broken, he doesn't have much of an appetite so I'm trying to get him to continue to drink liquids which are super important to flush out the fever. Also, a neighbor she just bought us some organic elderberry juice so I started to give that to him and I started to drink it. Elderberries are known to have anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties so it's really good for colds flu and allergies.

I'll put a link in the description below if you want to check it out luckily neither my daughter nor husband have had a sore throat but it is something that I suffer from time to time so I just wanted to suggest Garlin with warm water and warm salt water actually and then also

taking zinc. You don't want to take on an empty stomach because it can get upset, but a tea fresh slices of ginger lemon honey is awesome and it helps to soothe your throat. My husband is quarantined in his office and he has a little small bed in there and he's been there for almost a week and now I don't go into his room unless there it's to bring him something and if I do go in, I put on my mask and he puts on his. I don't hang out there for more than five minutes and I've marked flatware and plates bowls that are strictly for him. We don't share towels, bedding or anything, the big challenge has been our dog, Mimi loves my husband and wants to be near him all that time, so I put up a baby gate so she doesn't go into his room, but of course, it's hard to do 100% of the time because I'll forget or I'm in there talking to him and she won't sneak up a high and jump on his bed. They say that the virus can live on your pet's fur and whether or not that's a hundred percent or not I'm not sure it does make sense since this virus tends to like to live on surfaces.

The other alternative, of course, is that healthy people don't touch the pets but that's crazy too. I mean I put light blankets on our sleeping spots now just in a case, so that way I can wash the blanket and not the entire couch. I've also been giving Mimi baths not happy about that at all, so I know that I need to get better at keeping that baby gate up. For now, we're taking a day by day we definitely do not want to go into the hospital is a breeding ground for the virus and we are super lucky because of the virus is not bad enough where we need hospital intervention and we are doing our best to create a system within our household to keep healthy people and bring the sick people back to health and I think this is going to be very common. I can't stress enough how important it is to be eating healthy and right now whether you are sick or not whole real foods lots of fruits and vegetables. Stay away from processed foods and if you can, if you don't cook there are meal kits and you can order as well as tons of simple recipes online to try. Just try and we've partnered with a splendid spoon which is a meal kit. The delivery company they have some amazing plant-based smoothies bowls and soups it's perfect because it's nutritious and it's also easy to eat.

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