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Then my body, or I, felt the ability to carry on with the disease and, upon investigation, I realized that I was not dying, it was simply a process I was going to go through, and I was going to overcome it by following the recommendations they give me. […] I was irritated. So the symptoms of Chikungunya, the symptoms of Zika, to see how to identify them, each of them, what are the treatments to carry out, in certain cases to attend the emergency doctor. Then one would carry that very punctually.
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Interview man, 2016 |
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With zika and chikungunya I stayed at home for several days because I also knew how to treat it, drinking blackberry juice, acetaminophen is the only thing one could take, but not. So why waste time [with the doctor] when you know what you have to do? Take care of yourself, don't get wet with rainwater, don't sunbathe, have as much rest as possible. That's what I did.
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Interview woman, 2018 |
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I treated it [chikungunya] with acetaminophen, aromatics, chicken or meat broth and fruit and grape juices that I put in a pan without any water and let it boil a little bit… I let the black little grape boil a little bit, I let it cool down and I liquefy it in a little bit of water so that the juice of the grape will be good for me and with that I treat the children, I treated my children when they all were sick at home.
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Interview woman, 2016 |
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when my platelets started to decrease a lot, they gave me chicken leg broth and that's because chicken legs increase it a lot; grape juice; jelly with milk, juice of… there are some juices, recipes […] people who eat a lot of liver and that's good for their defenses, but I don't eat that.
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Interview woman, 2016 |
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One has to wait 4 or 5 days for a result (laboratory). Then while that result comes out what do we do? We look for alternative medicine, and if we see that the boy or the person does not progress with what we are giving, we don't go to talk to the doctor, we look for our ancestors, we ask them and we say: we have this problem and so what should we do?
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Interview man, 2016 |
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At least when I have the child sick, if I feel he has a fever, I run to [druggist]* what do I do? And he measures his temperature and gives him the medication… that's what's good, you feel safe because he's around… that's really good that, that he's watching and people know how we're living in the neighborhood, because this neighborhood is very big.
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Interview woman, 2018 |
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Here people come with money or without money to obtain medications. And what can we do? When they have money, they pay me, or if not, they don't, and that's how I have worked with the community.
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Interview man, 2018 |
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You get there and they tell you to relax and say that zika doesn't kill you, it's a virus and you're burning up and they tell you to relax, it's not an emergency. Then one arrives at the hospital, a person is unconscious or has no vital signs… In my case, we always use the natural plant baths.
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Interview man, 2016 |
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many Colombians don't go to the doctor properly for that, because they have to pay to go to the doctor, paying for the transport and they have to pay for this (referring to acetaminophen), because they give us few pills, it's not enough, seven thousand, eight thousand, ten thousand and here, here (in the drugstores) the pills cost one thousand five hundred, one thousand three hundred.
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Interview man, 2018 |
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but now I'm afraid of dengue, I'm very afraid of dengue, and I always give them acetaminophen when they get sick until I don't know what the doctor says, because by mistake, someone can give them something that makes them sicker.
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Interview woman, 2016 |
