introducing myself... and some ideas...
Hi, I'm Chelle from Australia and I'm Deaf. It was a blessing to find this! A friend who shares the same fear as I do, gave me this forum to join. I have had my fear of v* since I was 3 years old and I dont know why, but I think it may have come from having colic as a baby and operations on my cleft palate also as a baby and then one day throwing up in a shopping centre when I was 2, and I remember feeling sick with n* in child care and crying bad as I couldn't cope with it at all but did not v* thank goodness. I have since discovered aloe vera gel juice is very good for lining your stomachs to prevent against getting viral gastro, as the gel lining your stomach stops the virus from holding onto your intestines and the virus just slides through and out so you don't get sick. Also have apple cider vinegar drink every day to increase the acid alkaline level of your stomach which guards against the viruses, the viruses hate the alkaline levels and cant survive. Also drink cranberry juice as well, as this also acts as a lining on your intestine too. I have a glass of both cranberry juice and aloe vera juice every day to protect myself and also raspberry cordial (make sure its the good quality brand, not some cheap home brand, that has high raspberry juice % in it) kills gastro in the tum. Hope all this helps. I'm really glad to have found this forum, as for so long I thought I was alone, many dont understand my phobia.
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. Yes its always soo scary when gastro is going around. I hate it more than anything, the viruses are bad as they're harder to kill in the gut even though a big dose of bacterial ones are dangerous too. I tend to gulp down a big glass of slightly diluted raspberry cordial after I have eaten out somewhere or I feel the food may not have been safe, and with viruses, I take these juices before I go anywhere just incase I have to eat out somewhere. There is something I did learn and want to pass onto you an experience I had for 5 years which was awful! I would regularly wake up ill once a week and it took me years to work out why (and god I dont understand how I missed it!) - toothbrush head up, in a cup on the sink/shelf a metre away from the loo! When you flush the loo, be really careful, close the lid before you flush as the toilet's flush spray travels a long way and there is all sorts of bugs in the loo no matter how much you clean it, there is some bugs in it, and spray of flushing water lands on the toothbrush, and I was sick the next day or a couple days later and when I felt sick like I was going to throw up, I got panic attacks, took myself outside with a glass of raspberry cordial and another glass of cranberry juice in the other hand and drank both and felt better half hour later! Not kidding, I know it was the toilet, so now I hate toilets and always close the lid before I flush, and I feel annoyed or mad at people who don't do the same! (and of course I now keep my toothbrush in a case) As people don't think about the flushing water spraying onto the floor then we walk over that gross invisible particles of germs then sit on our feet later. I try not to touch my feet at all when I sit down and if I do, I wash my hands! I never ever put my hands in my mouth ever and I duck from anyone who is silly enough to attempt to touch my face - yuck! Those are the experiences I have had and learnt from. I'm really glad I'm able to share with you all 
. Paleo diet, google this it's wonderful the food is so yum!! I think you can make your own too. Anyway aloe vera also really helps cleansing the body, best stuff ever. Oh also take aloe vera capsules as well as the gel juice (usually can buy this in supermarkets, and the aloe vera liquid stuff which only needs two dessert spoonfuls of and lasts a long time kept in fridge if you take it daily, but the juice in supermarket is the protector of your tum lining) Cranberry juice is a great back up but also a good juice for pre-menopause, if you start drinking it many years before menopause, I think it also reduces the symptoms of menopause and a few other things with the reproductive cycle which I know causes a lot of probs for us women. I love this group! I am glad I joined, many of us who understand each other on here and the warmth is felt here 
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