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susquesus
Mad Hermit of the North Woods
USA
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 Posted - December 28 2009 : 4:12:11 PM
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Howdy folks. I'm trying to put the worst cold I've had in years down and I need your help. I believe that the right food will cure anything. What's your favorite way to kill a cold in your kitchen? I've been drinking extreme amounts of OJ and taking mulivitamins but have been too wiped out to do any significant cooking. Yesterday my boss decided that I was so pathetically miserable that he decided to give me the day off to recover, I am also off tomorrow so I've got some time to make this happen. All suggestions welcome. Chicken soup? Swedish meatballs? V8 juice? Please share your medicinal eating secrets. Thank you, thank you.
 
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Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
USA
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March 14 2005
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winglo
Deerslayer
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 Posted - December 28 2009 : 7:54:21 PM
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Ha! Ha! MG. My husband has a cold right now, perhaps I ought to run out to the beer store!
In all seriousness Susquesas, the bad news is nothing really works, although large doses of Vitamin C (like 500 mg or more) are known to shorten the duration of a cold by about one day (whoopee, right?). Make sure you get plenty of fluid because that keeps the mucous (yuck!) thinner and easier to cough up/blow out, etc. That will make your cold less likely to develop into pneumonia because it won't be stuck in your lungs. Warm showers, too, will help loosen things up, because liquids get thinner when they get warm. Soup is good because it has liquid and is warm! Tea, too. OJ gets the vitamin C and liquid into you.
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blackfootblood
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USA
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Posted - December 29 2009 : 09:35:23 AM
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Like Winglo said, I find hot tea is a quick fix when you can barely breath through your nostrils I usually drink a peppermint/mint tea, so the steam helps to open up my nasal passages. I know it's a little late for this, but I found out that the Airborne tablets work wonders!! I was getting cold like symptoms there before Christmas and I had company coming to stay with us and didn't have time to be sick. So I took one of those dissolvable tablets twice a day and it chased those nasty bugs away! So maybe something to think about the next time a cold starts to creep up on you. Hope you feel better and drink lots and lots of fluids
Oh, and Afrin nasal spray works like magic!! |
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
USA
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Posted - December 29 2009 : 11:17:07 AM
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Well, this isn't food; however, it is a sure-fire way of stopping a cold dead in its tracks. I call it my Three-Pronged Attack. (I guess it's the re-enactor in me!)
It is important to begin this at the very first sign of a cold... when you get that first little tickle feeling in your nose and throat.
1. Zinc. Airborne tablets have it. I use "Cold-Eeze" lozenges. You must follow the directions exactly -- take them at the correct intervals, sucking on them until totally gone. And do it faithfully!
2. Vitamin C. Yes, it works, as Winglo said. Take lots. I get 1000 mg tablets, and I take one in the morning, one at noon, and one at night. Not all of it will get absorbed, but what you do get will help immensely.
3. Sinus Irrigation. OK. Now you all are going to think ol' WW has gone 'round the bend, walking in her loose loafers, and carrying her basket filled with one egg shy of a dozen eggs. This is proven to work. Dr. Oz recommends this and has done demonstrations on both his show and Oprah's.
It's called a Neti Pot. It is a little ceramic or plastic pot with a small spout that you fill with tepid, lightly-salted water. You bend over the sink, tip your head, place the pot into one nostril and pour. The water fills your sinuses and runs out the other nostril. It is totally painless, and what it quite effectively does is to wash out your sinuses and wash that cold right down the drain.
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I have been using the Neti Pot and the 3-Pronged Attack for over 2 years, and I haven't had a cold in over 2 years. It works.
So, Sus..... it's probably too late for this cold to start the Neti Pot, although it may help to shorten the cold and get that stuff cleaned out. You can get the Cold Eeze lozenges and take them right now. They will help to shorten the duration and help you get rid of the cold. But, do remember these options for the next time.
One last word... I stay completely away from all over-the-counter cold remedies. I learned my lesson about 20 years ago. I was working in a store and had no sick-time benefits. I kept working through a cold and took some sort of cold tablets. What they did was to hold all of that stuff up in my sinuses and I ended up with the Sinus Infection From H**L. It was horrible. I ended up losing work time anyway, plus the doctor bill to go and get some antibiotics. I vowed right then and there.... never again. |
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