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nerveagent
Come on Pilgrim
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Beating the common cold??
#2479790 - 03/29/04 12:40 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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What do you guys do when you get sick, besides lots of rest and fluids? Just wonderin if you got any secrets cause I feel shit.
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HeavyToilet
The Heaviest OfThem All
Registered: 08/06/03
Posts: 9,458
Loc: British Columbia
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2479806 - 03/29/04 12:48 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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Drugs.
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gnrm23
Carpal Tunnel
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2479865 - 03/29/04 01:08 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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zinc ascorbate supplement pills (sublingual) --- eccccch...
-------------------- old enough to know better not old enough to care
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MOTH
Wild Woman
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Posts: 23,431
Loc: In the jungle
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2480100 - 03/29/04 02:02 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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I like to baby myself when I get sick...I know that I probably won't heal any faster, but it makes me feel better to do the following:
Cuddling with my favorite stuffed animal Watching some good movies Hot chocolate and candy Scented bubble bath!! Curling up with my cats with a good book
Helps me deal with the sickness every time!
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Requiem
More Better
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2480586 - 03/29/04 03:58 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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My friend cut up some garlic and boils it. Then he puts the broth in a shot glass and drink it. It kills everything. Try it, but it taste like shit.
-------------------- "I want your Soul. I will eat your soul." -Aphex Twin
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djd586
Underpants Gnome
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2480644 - 03/29/04 04:19 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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ZINC! It works wonders! It disrupts integurity of the rhinovirus's capsid. It can reduce the severity and longitivity of a cold by 66%!
-------------------- Phase 1... collect underpants... phase 2...??? ... Phase 3 - PROFIT!
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Ythan
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2480664 - 03/29/04 04:23 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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Zicam. It really works! At least the nose spray does, the other products look kind of gimmicky to me. Just be sure to use it as soon as you feel a cold coming on.
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tom234my
Marijuana,Chronic..preferred...,
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2480668 - 03/29/04 04:24 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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I usually take some theraflu, or some delsym, sometimes I take a little more then the normal dosage, but not too much more, and drink lots of tomato juice and Orange juice and vitamins...
-------------------- Enjoy zen, for now what happened?,..."Throw your neighborhood in the air..If you don't care.." - Ice Cube-(Friday..soundtrack) Whoo Hooo, need some more chronic now!.ahh much better...
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whiterabbit13
I'm late
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2480777 - 03/29/04 05:01 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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I usually sleep it out. Drink OJ.
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Fuman
Tao of Shrooms
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2481195 - 03/29/04 06:44 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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I'm in the same boat and I think Zicam is the best bet. Orange juice, zicam, sleep...... 10 days later the cold is gone! JK I hope that it will go quick for both of us.
-------------------- No, I do not think I am above the law. There are times; inspired and enraptured that I feel I am BEYOND the law.
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ToTheSummit
peregrinus
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2481375 - 03/29/04 07:29 PM (20 years, 4 days ago) |
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I'm one of those stubborn fucks who believes in letting my immune system get all the practice it can. So basically I just ignore the discomfort as much as possible and go about my bussiness.
It pisses my wife off every time....
-------------------- You invented the wheel....You push the motherfucker!!
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Turd
Dr. Rock
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2482628 - 03/30/04 02:00 AM (20 years, 3 days ago) |
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I take a 1000mg vitamin C capsule as often as I can (once a day preferably, but usually 4 or 5 times a week). If I feel like I coming down with something, I pop 2 capsules. I haven't gotten sick (including common cold) for over a year.
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DazedSol
old hand
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2482729 - 03/30/04 03:04 AM (20 years, 3 days ago) |
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garlic and vitamins
fresh minced (uncooked is best) garlic does wonders..............
fresh garlic contains a very potent antibiotic....forget the name right now though
-------------------- Peace, Adam
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valour
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: DazedSol]
#2482825 - 03/30/04 05:42 AM (20 years, 3 days ago) |
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DayQuil/NyQuil - repeat. Vitamin C. Chicken Noodle Soup really does help (add lots of garlic, too, just because) I found these quite nice tasting Zinc lozenges at Target - cherry flavored, but not medicine-cherry flavored (like even how cherry candy often tastes like medicine -- this is actually good). They seem to help, or at least soothe a sore throat.
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RussCan
phalaris smoker
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: valour]
#2483100 - 03/30/04 08:39 AM (20 years, 3 days ago) |
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Grapefruit seed extract,You'll feel a lot better in an hour and if you take it all the time you won't get a cold.
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Kingkole
im not a noob...im a a doob
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: RussCan]
#2488796 - 03/31/04 10:47 PM (20 years, 2 days ago) |
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garlic pasta sauce, lots of water and VIT C.
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ekomstop
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Re: Beating the common cold?? [Re: nerveagent]
#2489238 - 04/01/04 12:02 AM (20 years, 1 day ago) |
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I have heard echinacea can help significantly. Though lots of water and rest usually does the job for me
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