Posted on 10/29/2019 8:01:04 AM PDT by RummyChick
One day you’re feeling fine, the next, your nose is running, you’re sneezing and your throat feels like you’ve swallowed broken glass.
Welcome to the annual cold season. Most of us will get between one and three colds each year, usually in autumn and winter, caused by one of more than 200 different cold viruses.
And there is little you can do about it — a cure for the common cold remains one of the Holy Grails of medicine — but better understanding of how these viruses spread could be the key.
What we do know for sure is that the first 24 hours are crucial; this is when the infection takes hold and starts to multiply, causing symptoms.
Here, with the help of three leading experts — Professor John Oxford, a virologist at Queen Mary University of London, Professor Ron Eccles, director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University and Professor Peter Openshaw, a professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London — we explain what is going on during the first 24 hours of your cold and what you can do to reduce the severity of your symptoms.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
My husband makes something like that with Bragg’s, lemon juice, electrolyte powder, sea salt and stevia. Comes out tasting like lemonade and is apparently very good if you’re doing the Keto- low-carb thing.
Tylenol, Ibuprofen
Robitussin DM
Neo-Synipherine
Showers 3 to 4 times a day
Consemme or hot broths.
sometimes a shot of scotch or a hot toddy
That certainly sounds like a plan...
What? No Chickensoup?
A quick visit to a Vietnamese joint and a bowl of pho does the trick.
I have a jar of very high quality Monuka honey in my medicine cabinet.
It works much better than tht little tube of “Abreva” (so expensive) to stop a cold sore instantly if you get it on at the first tingle.
Amazing stuff for healing.
Colloidal silver
Well at two she’s in the ‘investigation two’s mode” where they investigate everything because their senses have sharpened. Then they want to show the world to you when they bring you things you wouldn’t touch! HA!
Sounds like she loves the farm already! We were townies but our mother took us to a friends farm which we loved going to. So many things to explore and do. Every kid should be at least exposed to farm life!
Not surprising she doesn’t want to come inside....we didn’t want to either!.......
If you resist the itch, the nose doesn’t run. If you sneeze or blow your nose, don’t panic, as the nose will run a little. You get Kleenex and blot it, and take a decongestant like Sudafed etc. The nose dries up.
In most cases, you may suffer a few hours, maybe one day, but the cold usually leaves within 48 hours.
One thing for sure, if you start blowing your nose, what should have last a day or two, is going to be one to two week affair, and a sinusitis that will require antibiotics etc. Off work etc.
Don’t take my word for it, Folks, try it.
Afrin works pretty good, but I like Flonase.
Those things give me bad nosebleeds.
If you have a cold or flu, no matter how bad is the strain going around you can swallow 1000 units of vitamin D3 per pound of body weight, about 33 itty bitty gelcaps in the 5000 unit size and the virus is GONE in about 8 hours. I did it 15 years ago and have been taking D3 supps ever since and have had no virus in that time. Ditto wife and three children.
Just let it run down your face, or wipe it on the sleeve?
First clue I have that I might be getting a cold is a runny nose, the kind that is about the consistency of water.
Comes on in a rush, seconds count.
My husband takes 14,000 to 20,000 units D3 every day, along with K2.
It’s important to pick up those really “early” symptoms and signs.
Actually it starts with a tickle or an itch in your nose, or congestion where you can’t breathe. The article is correct when if says if you start a cold pill, coricidin, airborne, etc. They’re really effective.
If you, start sneezing or you blow your nose, the glands are stimulated and the nose runs.
How about Kleenex?
I’ve heard about Vicks on the bottom of the feet, and then put on white socks. (Never tried it.)
“NOT BLOW YOUR NOSE.”
That’s mentioned in the original article, too.
Prevention for us is:
(1) Go to church late — AFTER the “hellos and handshakes”.
(2) Lots of black coffee.
Going to try First Defense. It sounds a little like the old Zicam swabs before they banned it.
My poor wife used Afrin too much. It actually causes swelling and more congestion.
No More!
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