Ask HN: Any novel aproaches to being sick?

Going into the office is a great way to infect everyone else with whatever you have, thus multiplying productivity losses.

I try and actually stay in bed and read something completely unrelated to work/business/anything requiring much thinking. My personal favorite is westerns... Usually I get sick because of stress, so relaxing for a bit is usually what's called for.

And it'd be nice if sick days/flexible schedules reflected that.

I sleep.

... for like 20 hours straight. Then I eat something, then I sleep again. Repeat until healthy. I think last time I was sick, it was with a stomach flu for about three days. I probably slept 18-20 hours a day, with the rest of the time spent puking and crapping my guts out. (Hey, you asked.)

Take a daily multivitamin. It really helps. You get sick much less often, and when you do it's much less debilitating.