12-07-2014, 09:16 AM
Chickengunya
I just returned for two action packed weeks in Negril. I had read up on it before I left and was more than just a little anxious. I carried Deet, which I have never used before only to have it burn my skin, give me a rash and melt my toenail polish. I didn't used after that first time. In the morning, after a shower or before bed, I would lube up with coconut oil and spray my OFF on. At night adding a little tea tree oil to the coconut oil.
When I first got there, I was asking around about it and didn't seem so prevalent although a young house mate had it. My taxi driver piped up and said there is a lot more case as he sees it in the workers that he carries. Talk in my first yard was that it wasn't just carried by Mosquitos. The old timer said that it has traveled across the Caribean. I heard that echoed quite few times during my stay.
By the time I left, every yard I visited someone has had or had the "chickv". You could see it in their eyes, totally wiped out and the way the moved. Most were down only a day or two but talked about the leftover bones pain and muscle weakness. It wasn't just old, young, big or small. It was all of them.
I carried Tylenol and shared wherever I could, I drank moringa tea and ate three of the seeds a day and still am now that I'm home. I heard some thing about papaya leaves but didn't try that. I'm home now and hope I made it here without the virus. Things ache a bit but the road is hard in a body too.
I just returned for two action packed weeks in Negril. I had read up on it before I left and was more than just a little anxious. I carried Deet, which I have never used before only to have it burn my skin, give me a rash and melt my toenail polish. I didn't used after that first time. In the morning, after a shower or before bed, I would lube up with coconut oil and spray my OFF on. At night adding a little tea tree oil to the coconut oil.
When I first got there, I was asking around about it and didn't seem so prevalent although a young house mate had it. My taxi driver piped up and said there is a lot more case as he sees it in the workers that he carries. Talk in my first yard was that it wasn't just carried by Mosquitos. The old timer said that it has traveled across the Caribean. I heard that echoed quite few times during my stay.
By the time I left, every yard I visited someone has had or had the "chickv". You could see it in their eyes, totally wiped out and the way the moved. Most were down only a day or two but talked about the leftover bones pain and muscle weakness. It wasn't just old, young, big or small. It was all of them.
I carried Tylenol and shared wherever I could, I drank moringa tea and ate three of the seeds a day and still am now that I'm home. I heard some thing about papaya leaves but didn't try that. I'm home now and hope I made it here without the virus. Things ache a bit but the road is hard in a body too.