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.
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God bless you and yours for adopting your 2 yr. old granddaughter....in your 70’s no less! She’ll likely will have a good life growing up on the farm and with loving grandparents.
I knew someone who swore that wearing a dirty sock around the neck stopped the soreness. Mine would stop traffic, but a sore throat?
I think the person who mentioned D3 is probably on the right track, too. We just don’t get as much Sun as we evolved to require and got in the past.
She is a handful sometimes but we love her more than you can imagine.
That'll work... :)
Very interesting and worth trying, but seems almost impossible to resist the temptation to blow. It would be like not scratching a severe itch — smart but impossible to do.
Did the same to me when I got a flu shot 3 years back, but I swear when I got the flu it was much less severe due to the shot.
So once you are screwed by clicking on it, what is the harm after that?
I just assume I have no privacy and all the horses are out of the barn and galloping several states away. What do I gain by welding the barn doors shut now?
Thrice brewed Cistus Incanis tea.
Ticks, fleas, mosquitoes, chiggers, and bedbugs are REPELLED is one side effect........cold free 40+ years.
ZICAM Nasal spray as soon as I feel a cold coming on. Keep taking it until symptoms cease. I have also used Cold Ease.
These are both zinc based remedies. The key is to get as much zinc into your body as you can the first 24 hours when you are initially becoming infected.
I have found IF I follow this procedure the cold is completely gone in a few days or less. Sometimes literally one day. I never have a day where I am incapacitated.
I’ve used oregano oil, elderberry syrup and tincture, garlic tincture, colloidal silver and Coldeaze.
The only thing that works for me every single time is hydrogen peroxide. I swab each ear and inside the front of each nostril several times a day when I first feel the hint of a cold and it never fully develops into a cold. It costs pennies and it works.
“From a snake oil salesman. Especially the colloidal silver. “
Correct. It’s a topical antiseptic. You may as well drink hand sanitizer.
“Thrice brewed Cistus Incanis tea”
Just the words used in this sentence make me think I am looking at some 16th century remedy
You might need to add Vitamin K to the D
Absolutely, D3 is necessary. I take it every day too. Have it in capsule form and recently bought a bottle of Carlson’s Norwegian cod liver oil to get me through the winter.
My pharmacist friend and I also make Dr. Axe’s Detox Drink using Bragg’s Raw. Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar, available everywhere, even Walmart. Use the Unpasteurized version with “the mother,” a sort of cloudy looking vinegar.
https://draxe.com/recipes/secret-detox-drink/
Going to be a very cold winter here. Darn that global warming.
This is nano technology silver. I chug it every day.
This is nano technology silver (American Labs). Been taking it for years. . .no bluish tint yet. . .and I haven’t been sick at all. The lozenges are wonderful too.
The best way is to totally avoid contact with other human beings. Do not go where they were, either.
I’ve read about people shipwrecked by themselves for decades on a desert island. Never got a cold there, ever!
The nano technology silver doesn’t. . .I chug it all the time. Haven’t been sick. . .take all the other things I listed and also the silver biotic lozenges are great.
I don’t doubt it!
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