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
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)
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!!!
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.
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.
I don’t go to sites that blast viewer with Ads.
I drink some good bourbon and a bottle of Robitussin
I find a good, stiff Hot Toddy works wonders (tea, at least a shot of brandy, honey and lemon, which you drink as hot as you can stand).
Perhaps I feel a cold coming on now...
I stopped eating excessive chocolate and sweets about a year and a half ago. I did not get a cold last year, something unusual for me. Could it be because I gave up eating lots of sugar? I’m waiting to see this year. I’ve already been exposed to one student with laryngitis (I tutor kids), and did not get sick. To be continued...
Bananas, honey and water. Blend and drink. Zinc added as a supplement.
The Vicks UK web site lists several UK retailers where you can purchase it. But it appears that Amazon is the only place to buy it in the U.S.
Most of the Amazon customers who use it (disregarding the lack of safety seals) swear by it. But, at digitalspy, one Brit reviewer wrote "I've tried it on a few occasions and I think it's bloody snake oil to be honest. Probably placebo, and really sodding expensive for what it is."
I think I'll give it a try.
This article provides NOTHING you can actually do that isn’t known forever. Worthless article meant for an extraterrestrial who has not been exposed to mass media cold advice for the last 20 years.
Better: during cold season, take a lot of vitamin d with k every day, get ahold test to make sure the level of D3 in blood is over 60.
When you feel the first symptom: take liposomal vitamin c, eat a zinc lozenges, and head to bed for lots of extra sleep.
When awake, rinse nose with neilmed bottle, add a few drops of apple cider vinegar to your bottle as well. Make sure the fluid gets down to the throat as you rinse.
Sleep with drops of thieves or oregano essential oil on your soles of your feet (use socks over it if you fear you will slip on the floor at night). Can also put a couple drops on the chest of your night clothes.
Keep up the vitamin c and zinc until symptoms gone, 1-2x a day.
These things might kick the cold before it comes or shorten it for real.
Those three experts must have been paid by the Vick’s company to push their product.
I have great success with Cold-eze. What might be a big 5 day cold turns into a mild 2 day cold. You must take it as soon as you feel the cold coming on. I keep one lozenge in my purse.
I try to spread it to as many people as I can. I don’t like suffering alone.......