Viral vs Bacterial Infection: What's the Difference? - Dr. Berg
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- How to tell if you have a viral infection or a bacterial infection.
Timestamps:
0:00 Is it a viral infection or a bacterial infection? Plus, remedies for each one.
0:48 If it’s a viral infection, antibodies won’t work
2:00 Here are remedies I recommend
I explain the difference between a viral infection and a bacterial infection; plus, I give your remedies for each type of infection. Well, it’s difficult because the symptoms are often the same: fever, developing a cold, muscle ache, sore throat. You could get a blood test to rule out a bacterial infection; otherwise, you’re not going to know.
Most respiratory infections are viral, although they can be bacterial. And you can have a combination of the two! A viral infection could last 7 to 10 days. If bacterial, 2 weeks. Note that if you have a viral infection, antibodies won’t work. If you take antibiotics too often, you set yourself up for a condition called antibiotic resistance, and the antibiotics won’t work anymore. Plus you’ll weaken your immune system, decrease the good gut flora you need, and be susceptible to secondary infections.
You suffer two types of damage with an infection. One way to protect against damage is to put your body in ketosis. When you have ketones, you decrease the damage from oxidants that your immune system releases when you have an infection.
Even if you don’t know which type of infection you have, here are remedies I recommend:
Olive leaf extract helps put viruses in remission but also helps with bacterial infections
Calcium also helps put viruses in remission. Remember, a virus isn’t alive. You’ll be at risk depending on your stress level, the quality of your diet, and whether you’re consuming sufficient nutrients. If you have a child with a fever, calcium will help them.
Increase your temperature; turn up the heat, climb into bed under many covers, and sweat. Take a hot bath or a hot shower
Consume lots of garlic, for either a viral or bacterial infection.
Do fasting. You usually lose your appetite anyway; that’s your body saying not to eat. Fasting can speed up the course of the infection.
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Check out these remedies for either a viral infection or a bacterial infection .
Hey Dr. Berg. I went to my first Dr. appt. since starting Keto and IF. I never weighed throughout this journey, but I knew I was getting smaller. I had lost 104lbs in less than 5 months. I thought maybe I would have lost 50 and when I saw the scale I was astonished. I was down from 453 lbs to 349lbs. I still have a long way to go but I feel so much better.
My AIC is a 5.1 now on no meds and it was 6.9 on 220 units of insulin, and 2 grams of metformin a day before. I am still having way to high BP and I an EKG is showing signs of and enlarged left side to my heart, so I have agreed to go on lisinopril and amlodipine after much debate and reading. I view it as a temporary stop gap measure to get to where I loose more weight and get off the cigarettes. My next step is getting off the cigarettes. I am at the point where I don't need them as the crutch they used to be, I am simply addicted, but I know if I got of sugar I can get off nicotine. Sugar is far more addictive. Thanks for you videos they have been a huge help to me.
FrugalPrepper's Garage & Garden Awesome job, and congratulations!!! You got this! 👏🏻👍✌☝️
FrugalPrepper's Garage & Garden
A day before???
FrugalPrepper's Garage and Gardening. Great job! Also FYI tobacco has various amounts of sugar in the 3 types of curing process, air, fire & flue. The latest is the highest developed in the 60's to reduce the time, which only takes a week, this has the highest amount of sugar. So, yeah! Off them sugar stix & keep going!
Omg
Congratulations. U are lucky. All what I lost in 6 months are 30 pounds.
@Stehuntimari 00 how to do than????
So glad I found you ! Your channel is literally saving lives! Thank you 😊
Glad to know this. I was sick yesterday. I'm on keto and I did 23 hour fast. I kept my self warm. I felt much better this morning. Thanks Dr Berg
This video was long overdue! Thanks, Dr. Berg!
Thanks Dr. This is an amazing channel that has helped lots of people and continues to do so.
Thanks so mucb for sharing your knowledge...!!!!
Thank you, sir, so very much once again for this clarifying video! Yes, get faster through the viral infection by fasting! Very good to think about this when being in this situation!
another very informative good video Dr Berg this is the time of year here in new York that special attention is needed like this
Excellent advice ☝🏻
Valuable info as always 🙌🏼
Perfect timing thanks Doc you rock!
Excellent, as usual!!!!! Thanks doc !!!!!!
Cool, very very glad for what you are doing ❤️
I had a terrible lung infection in 2016. My best friend is a doctor so he started prescribing them antibiotics. I finished "the full course of antibiotics" but I was getting worse so he prescribed me another course of antibiotics. I think he said since the first course (viral antibiotics) didn't work, it means the infection is bacterial so a bacterial antibiotics WILL WORK. Guess what! It didn't work but this time I got terribly bad. It was difficult to breathe and I had the worst fever in my life. I didn't believe human body can get that hot. The coughing was so bad that I couldn't inhale just like suffocation. I had pneumonia! The doc was gonna precribe a third course of antibiotics but this time "fungal". I was fed up and decided to NOT take more antibiotics. I remembered that grandma used to give us good herbal remedies for everything when we were children, may she rest in peace. I turned to her and she simply boiled some chamomile and told me to inhale the vapor, 3 times a day. I felt better gradually and by day 6 I was completely haled.
Mate, maybe you should check if you best friend doctor has the best intensions with you. He didn't do a blood test first for his best friend?
@@Giovanni-Giorgio my concern is that the friend was telling OP he was giving them "viral" and "fungal" antibiotics.
There's no such thing. The word "antibiotic" literally translates to "against bacteria." Penicillins, for example, destroy bacteria. They aren't picky about which bacteria (which is why they have such gnarly side effects, you need balanced gut flora to properly digest food and kill future microbes.) They completely ignore all viruses and fungi. No antibiotic will ever help COVID, chickenpox, or the flu, for example, and should only be prescribed if a bacterial infection occurs as a complication of the original virus, like when I got an awful double ear infection after H1N1 in 2009 and spent about a month of my sophomore year of high school effectively deaf.
Similarly, antivirals treat viruses, though they're a lot more picky than antibiotics. Antiviral medications are specified for each virus, which is why they couldn't just use the same treatments they use for bad flu cases on people with COVID and had to rush to create new ones, or find combinations of existing ones, which got the job done.
Antifungal medications also exist, though fungal infections are so uncommon your doctor will likely try to rule out all viral and bacterial causes first unless there are obvious signs of it being caused by a fungus or a clear history of exposure, like swimming in water containing spores of toxic fungi.
Same with my mother she is on her 3rd course of antibiotics and nothing is helping her cough and fever-- I'm so done with these practicing doctors
Perfect timing.... i have something i caught a few days ago....... i never catch anything from my 4 kids but did this time...... it was like you posted this just for me.
Great info! Thank you 😊
Great info! Thank you!
Thank you for valuable information.
Oregano essential oil on your feet is fantastic when you get sick.
I just had a bacterial infection and was so sick with chills and fever. Ive been on keto for years. Go to the doctor. My doctor told me it got into my kidneys and heart. I would not of recovered in without antibiotics
Good info Doc !
Always eat 4-5 bulbs or garlic and take a bottle of fish oil tablets before flying...
Your breath will kill everything...
Lol 😆 yasss
Thank you, Sir ❤
Excellent video !
5⭐
Great tips thank you 🙂
thank you!!!!!!! Dr Berg.
Thank you Dr. Berg for your caring heart to give facts to people everyday about their health there own doctor won't do in truth. God will bless you and Karen. Trans guy Lee, Richmond, Va
You are a blessing ☺️
I haven't seen a doctor in years, lack of funds. Luckily I've been feeling healthy enough- at least I think so. But if I ever do, I hope they will be like you!
Nope. Most doctors will prescribe you pills and tell you to get out.
Thanks Dr Berger
Thank you very much for everything 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
THANK YOU DR BERG
Is calcium supplements better than dietary calcium to fight infection?is olive oil extract better than oregano oil and monolaurin?
I have a liquid olive leaf extract...love it! I usually will go to my car(during summer) and sweat...somehow it helps get over it.
I use to take calcium for Lyme disease , it really helps.
WOW.. AMAZING!
You're the best!!!
Best advice
Thanks doc :)
Doc, my daughter is a 27-year-old type 1 diabetic diagnosed at age 7. I have enjoyed success on keto for the last 3 months and she is now interested in the keto lifestyle. Her endo has given the green light, however, I wanted to ask you about your experience with keto lifestyle for type 1 diabetics. I am thinking keto would also help her with her mixed,connective tissue disease. Any insight would be appreciated.
Great info, thank you. But what about chicken soup?
In my late 20s I developed seasonal nasal allergies, and as a result I began having chronic sinus infections. I’ve been on so many antibiotics over the years it’s been scary. Not only have I experienced antibiotic resistance a number of times, but my intestinal tract has suffered quite a bit, too. I’ve experienced IBS symptoms quite a few times in the past 3 years. :(
Try daily saline nasal flushes and chew xylitol gum regularly.
I’ve used saline nasal rinses before but never have tried the gum. I’ll look into that.
I meant to come back and add that since 2017 I started taking AREDS vitamins as a preventative for macular degeneration (it runs in my family) and those vitamins have strengthened my immune system. I haven’t had a sinus infection in over 2 years (since Oct. 2016) and for me, that is a record. 👍
You are great sir
Thank you
speaking of resistance. what's your take on asymptomatic carriers? I thought when u didn't have symptoms your body has fought off the infection. how can you spread it if your not infected?
I thank God for you!
Dr Berg, can you still do Keto while you have a viral and/or bacterial infection? Eat the same foods? Same amount?
thank you
U r incredible dr
How long does it take for your gut to replenish the depleted flora after rounds of antibiotics? Last year I was sick literally EVERY month and each time it was so bad that I will go back to the ER and they will give me antibiotics like penicillin and some others via oral. I have been taking probiotics for a few months now as well as eating fermented foods such as sauerkraut, yogurt, miso. Anything else I can do? I am battling with high risk HPV and CIN1 (abnormal cells) as well as bacterial vaginosis since 2018 as well when I also started getting sick.
I haven't gotten sick since February this year in terms of colds but still dealing with these gynecological issues.
Over 30 years ago my mum was always giving me calcium when a bug bitten me and I had infection.
Is sauna also good to speed things up??
People used to chew olive leaf to treat blood sugar levels, Yemen particularly.
I went on a fat only fast when I was suffering from Chicken Pox. I believe it helped greatly as even with severe blisters and sores, there was no itching or discomfort.
Muhammad Shaikh what did you eat exactly
Organic coconut oil, two tablespoons and Dr Bergs wheatgrass juice powder, both at morning and night.
Muhammad Shaikh awwww man....wish I knew that when I was young...I got chicken pox twice as a kid ....sigh
@@qthirteen13 I got it for my 10 year old :) I don't know if I was lucky or unlucky for not getting it when young ...
What about cat's claw supplement vs olive leaf supplement?
I usually get a bag cough and viral infection every fall. Sinse I have been doing Keto, I gave been heakrhy
How do you fast when certain medications require you to eat something?
Dr. Berg, are we allowed to consume garlic/onion when trying to heal from SIBO?
I'm sick with an viral infection right now I went to the doctor and they gave medication but I am not going to take it for an couple of days
Can bacterial infection clear on its own without antibiotics?
Hate it when the pediatrician sees my kids ear redness and right away prescribes amoxicillin. Shes says to me, give him yogurt just in case. Shes know im just gonna throw it away. 10 days latter shes finds ears just fine. She just looks at me without saying anything. Like shes being watch...
I think my voice is changing, sounding biger / deeper.. What's are some of the causes and what can I do about it?
My 6 year old daughter has always seemed to get sick so easily..she is ALWAYS getting sick! Why? Are some people just naturally like that or can I fix this for her?
103 fever a couple days with covid left me with nerve damage...head tremors and heart murmur but good news only had it 5 days.
Apple cider vinegar helps as well.
Does anyone else get MORE hungry when they're sick? Everyone complains about loosing their appetite, but when I'm sick (cold, the flu, whatever) I'm constantly hungry. I'm very rarely sick, maybe once every 2-3 years, but when I am I usually gain a few pounds, haha.
Your body is craving protein.
theres conflict about the fasting and temperature thing but okay. The rest seem reasonable tho
Dr. Berg, can you please fix the link to keto essential, it is broken and invalid, thank you for the video. It’s great information
Tina Deng keno...? Lol
It’s a typo;)
Corrected:)
Tina Deng 😀😁😃😄😊😎😚☺🙂🤗👍👏🏻✌
what is gut bacteria and what happens if you dont eat the proper foods
Dr. Berg you look very handsome in black shirt.. Thanks for the info. Take care.
He said thanks.
What exactly is Womezon Remedy? How does this thing really work? I see many people keep on talking about this bacterial vaginosis secret remedy.
What about a crappy fever for 2 days but no problems at all with throat or nose. Went on a pretty intense jog after not jogging in a year
so when is Dr Berg getting his Nobel prize for saving more lives than the American Health System?
Please please please make a video on keto rash because i am suffering from one right now and i don't know what to do, i am scared and it's super itchy. What am i deficient in? Please help
@Stehuntimari 00 i know, but which vitamins/minerals could i be deficient in, that is causing this rash? So that this awful rash goes away
Unless I'm close to death (lol) I don't take antibiotics because of immunity.
I don't either 🤗
I always put hydrogen peroxide in my ears after being in a plane or around sick people. Or if I’m feeling like I’m getting a cold I put hydrogen peroxide in my ears up to three times a day. I never get sick!!
Seems like it would just dry your ears out though
Interesting..
I go decades without getting sick and i don't do that
I get fever alot ,but I can never do keto I'm active and my energy get's so low also Ican't study 😢
I had itching and light mild swelling on my right leg ankle over two days, I dont know what it is but some websites really scaring me a lot please would you help me for this please..........
Notification squad!!
I have a big appetite when im sick. I dont know if i can fast. What does that mean?
Dr my cheeks , tongue and teeth are feeling like am from eating unripe guavas and lemons .what can be the problem or how can I get rid of this
****Help Dr. Berg! My husband gets bronchitis every year after a minor cold every year since 4 years ago after a tragic family accident changed our lives and my husband was traveling back and forth every weekend from my mom's house back to ours (plane rides etc). He developed Bronchitis and then Walking Pneumonia. :( Now every year he gegs minor cold which we fight off quickly but then he gets bronchitis again!! We are so frustrated bc we can't prevent it now! We eat a lot of garlic, ginger, tumeric, onions, all kinds of vitamins from leafy green (tons) and other things. We have all kinds of vitamin c foods and calcium too. This year we were super healthy he was running 6 miles a few times a week this past summer. He also lost 25 lbs but ...... he has bronchitis again now :( :( :(. How can we make sure his lungs heal.
So are you saying don’t take antibiotics if it’s bacterial
I thought that you should eat if you are sick
Could you maybe elaborate on why fasting helps with infections?
Michael Schulze like to know as well
Fasting can boost immune system and can kill cancer and etc.
Michael Schulze when you fast you triggers somthing named autophogy. That is the cleaningprocess of dead cells that needs to take place for new cells. Read about autophogy.
Because when you fast, your immune system isnt focused on food in the bowls and it can give its full energy on patogens. Over 50% of your immune system is in guts to be there as "filter" and to protect and regulate the substances that you ate. So when you are not eating, immune system doesnt need to "scan" bowls and food you ate.
Ardet 8 *bowels 😬
Hello
I am having itching at my secret area and it was spreading then doctor give me lindlane treatment
The really good way to tell is if its viral; people you come into contact with also get sick. And you usually can track down who got you sick.
Good one 👍
Hi Dr. , I think I have an injured vocal. I've been hose for over a month, almost two months now, I'm not sure what's causing it but I have taken medicine for cole. I sing soprano in my university chorus and we have a lot of programs and practice till December I really need help. How do I repair my vocal and voice
Did you manage to get better? Please let me know if not I may have info that can help.
Dude, I'm sick right now with a severe cold. Sugar and carbs are the only things I crave when I'm this bad!
Dude???
@@florawright5452 Yes, " Dude" used as a term that focuses attention. Kinda like "hey man".
@@EmpressLestat did you ever get better? I also crave bad things 😩 earth is so confusing sometimes lol
@@jakethesnake4971 Well that was 4 years ago, so yeah, got better.
@@EmpressLestat that fair. Lol
Keto for strengthening my immune system seems not to work for me. In our family, I am the only one who does Keto, but I am the only one who is always getting the cold etc. I mainly live off vegetables, eggs and fatty meats, organic where ever I can get it. Supplementing with Vitamin K2, plus D3 in winter season. Also eating lots of garlic and ginger. Lemon water and green tea are my drinks of choice. So theoretically I should be ultra healthy, but it's just not the case :(
Btw I am not trying to loose weight, as I am already quite thin (145lbs at 1.75), I would rather like to bulk up. But this seems to be a lot harder in Keto, as the building effect of the insulin is missing.
Any ideas? Thanks.
@@nancyfahey7518 Thank you for your answer. Probiotics shouldn't be an issue as long as the gut health is OK. I have no problem digesting all the veggies, so my microbiom should be fine. But I'll give it a try to do a colon remediation. Thanks for the idea.
I do IF, 18/6. Even tried OMAD, but that made me loose too much weight (was loosing strength, saw it in the gym).
Do natural bacterial vaginosis treatment like Womezon Remedy really work and if so, how effective are they? I have noticed numerous awesome things about this bacterial vaginosis remedy.
Citrobacter fruendii cure?
Dr. Berg, can we please get your take on the Flu Shot? Thank you
Have it every it year.
leeza2706 you and other around you are Moore likely to get sick by taking the flushoot acordin to metaanalyses Made by dr Miller. You should read it
Flu shot is great for the toilet !
@@pingpong9875 What a bunch of nonsense. Doctors also take the flu shot yearly.
M C it dependes where they live and work. Some places has forced the workers to vaccination or they have to look fore other jobs. I do not know what reality you live in.
Love Garlic! Who needs friends....
Hi. I would love to see what you know about megadoses of vitamin C kicks you out of Ketosis????
I have read the studies which show that mega doses of Vit C just doesn't work as claimed. My father got no benefit out of them.
There is liposomal C which is fat soluble. I get mine from Dr Mercola.
Muhammad Shaikh by megadoses, how much are you Talking about? Many studies dose not use right amount of C.
@@pingpong9875 I am sorry I don't remember the dosage nor the type but it was really high doses to fix cancer.
20alphabet no?
I have cold now, why i m feeling hungry?? Even though i cant sense taste
Don't do snacking, unless it's garlic? ;)
Fasting is the way to go. 48+ hours to kick your immune system into overdrive
I fasted 51 hours yesterday
And on my 24 th hour today, what time Frame works best 48-72 hours ? Or 7 straight days
What Can someone take if your allergic to antibiotics?
Colostrum and vitamin D.
When i get sick i get super hungry