Question: Hello. My 70 year old mother got sick yesterday. It started with legs aching very bad. Then went to hips onto ribs then to shoulders and neck. She laid down. When she got up, she was confused, very tired, dizzy, short of breath. I thought she may have a combo of flu and dehydration, so I started giving her home made water, sugar and salt recipe. I had her drinking a bit every minute for about 2 or 3 hours. She was increasingly getting better. I was also taking her blood pressure and pulse. I could not get any reading yesterday. Today, she is very coherent. The dizziness is gone. The body aches are gone. She has a little diarrhea. I have been checking her urine. It is not dark. Her blood pressure this morning was around 100 over 55. It increased as the say went on. I believe that it got up to around 117 over low 60's. But her heart rate has continually staryed at around 97. She now only complains of being very very sleepy and has alot of phlegm, which you can hear when she lies down, but not so much while sitting up. The last blood pressure reading was 90 over 50. Do you think that she has a combination of flu and dehydration going on?

Thank you for responding. She is under doctor care for hypothyrodism, and currently taking medicine for it. She has been doing well. Whatever she has "caught?" started yesterday morning. Her last blood pressure reading was 93/60, at 8pm. She is not confused or anything like that. Just very sleepy. And she has a lot of phlegm. Do you think that this could be the flu or Pneumonia? Her temperature is 97.6. She is urinating and has some diarrhea. Thank you