The Common Cold

[Karissa]

Ok, I'm looking for your tips for curing the common cold.

I'm about ready to lose the one I've got!

[Terri]

Here is what I've been doing the last couple of years. Amazingly, I've never kept a cold longer than 3-4 days.

Take regular old aspirin as directed every 4 hours, excluding bedtime.

Bedtime: drink one of those nasty cold-medicine nighttime things with emphasis on clearing sinus congestion and getting doped up enough to force sleep.

Dinner: nothing but hot soup and maybe a dinner roll or salad on the side. If you can make your own veggie soup, so much the better - but a good clear chicken soup will suffice.

Extra orange juice, hot tea or water all day long. (No extra caffeine though.) Push those fluids!

The common cold sucks!!! :-x But at least these things make you feel somewhat human and do push the vitamins and fluids.

Get well soon! :hug:

[Arch]

This works for me:

-Take plenty of lemsip max (or similar) capsules.
-Put on 2 extra layers of clothes and get under a blanket
-sweat... alot
-drink lots of fluids

The sweating can sometimes be very quick at making your symptoms go away... but even if it doesn't, it still speeds up the whole 'being ill' process.

[Terri]

Mine has been lingering for 2 weeks now, and even following my own advice up there hasn't done a whole lot. :irked: It's starting to make me cranky.

Our weather has warmed up a lot in the last few days and I'm itchy to get out and shoot, but am too wiped to do much more than be a couch potato. :gah: I'm a terrible patient!

[Mike]

We have an air cleaner in our bedroom (filter queen Defender). The documentation says that the filters are good enough to filter out most germs/bugs/viruses...and I think that it has helped. I used to get a typical cold or throat infection one or twice a year, usually at the predictable times of year...but the last couple years I've been much better...and if I do get a little sick, it tends to go away much faster.

I've heard from several people that garlic helps with your immune system. Some take the capsules...but I like to just use a lot when cooking. Of course, my wife doesn't like it because she says it makes me stinky. :)

[Terri]

:lol: Stinky or not, I've actually read the same thing about garlic! I made myself a batch of vegetable soup over the weekend and chopped up a lot. I'm just coughing and hacking and it gets exhausting. :cries:

I've never had a filtration system, though that's another item that has a great reputation....with your little one every bit helps.

PS Love that avatar...he is sweet!