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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Lipsomal C is part of it. Tastes nasty
A couple 500 Vit C stops it cold
Vitamin C and Coldeze a zinc preparation.
If taken early will keep it from getting out of control.
Works for me.
bkmk
I try a lot of folk lore but have never tried the onions on the feet one
Coldeze has worked very well for my husband and me.
However, I’ve also seemed to have success with Oscillococcinum, which a lot of people think is ‘nothing’.
Line silver asap in the nose and ear with a Q-tip.
Liquid silver biotics through the day. (shop around . . .there are price gougers out there!)
Gaia Elderberry syrup. (Works like a charm)
Lipsomal Vitamin C (I get the capsules from Mercola.com)
Yep extra Vit C works for me placebo or not
IIRC cold eze only has about 2mg zinc gluconate per lozenge. You can skip all that sugar and buy 25mg, 50mg, and other sized tablets for pretty cheap at near any drugstore. I’ve had good success with 25mg.
I read the article. I agree with some of it. Washing your hands after touching money is very important, if you’re in the profession.
But I have a better recommendation.
I’m board certified in Preventive Medicine. I don’t have data too prove this, but for almost 50 years, (even before med school), I learned from old GP, that the best way to stop a cold in it’s tracks, in it’s early stages is to:
NOT BLOW YOUR NOSE.
I’ve told patients, friends and family this, even wrote a couple articles on the subject and done a couple local radio spots, so the feedback tells me that reducing the nose blowing as much as possible, early on works.
Taking one of the decongestants or nasal sprays in the article works too. Airborne, when taken at the first sign works. Flonase etc.
If you resist the nose blowing, (ok you can blow your nose ONCE in the shower only), you may suffer a little for the first day, but the cold will be gone within 48 hours.
On the other hand, if you start blowing your nose, you will stimulate your mucous glands, causing more congestion ie more nose stuffiness and therefore blowing. The virus will get a foot hold in your irritated mucous membranes, and go deeper into the sinuses.
What would have passed in a day or two, is now a chronic one to two week thingy, where you end up eventually going to your doctor, and he or she:
PUTS YOU ON AN ANTIBIOTIC!!!
Oscillococcinum,- a lot of people think it is snake oil but I try that, too, if I start to feel sick.
Also real manuka honey from New Zealand.
When I feel a cold coming on, I typically drink a lot of liquids and take one Nyquil before bed. More often than not, it does the trick.
Hahahah. My mom always said her mother would chop onions
and put them in a sock to tie around her neck.
Those are good support items but if you also start oil of oregano and colloidal silver right away you can many times stop the cold in its tracks. Thats what we use with C and zinc.
I got a Flu Shot Thursday. I got the Flu Friday.
Not really the flu. The vaccine, I’m told, carries no active flu strains. But it does come with possible side effects.
Like cold like symptoms. Which I still have.
(coff, coff. Sniff)
By the way did you know that the Daily Mail is the most tracker infested site on the web. In addition to “cookies” the Daily Mail’s pages were found to contain the most - hundreds - of trackers that are invisible to the viewer, but there in the page.
Wow! 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 — and what do we learn?
Avoid rubbing your eyes and nose, chicken soup, ibuprofen, wash your hands, warm compresses, a hot drink such as honey and lemon, cough remedies that contain expectorants, decongestants, and MAYBE Vicks “First Defence.”
Thanks for posting this, but is there anybody who doesn’t know these things?
It just shows how powerless we are against the common cold viruses when leading virologists can only recommend these ages-old things to do.
What I DID learn is to keep Vicks “First Defence” on hand and give it a try (if it’s even sold in the U.S.).
another thing I do when going to the Casino in the winter is use Nozin. Probably doesn’t work but I do it. Then when I get home I put hydrogen peroxide in my ears.
Also do that first sign of a cold. Can’t remember why. Something about germs entering in through the ears.
oil of oregano and colloidal silver, where do you get those?
Lots of good info on this thread.
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