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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:43 PM
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How do you head off a chest cold before it brings you down?
Edited on Mon Jan-15-07 10:44 PM by LibraLiz1973
Old wives tale cures??

Things you do to head it off?


I can feel it coming and I don't want this at all

SHARE!!


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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:45 PM
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1. Zinc, Echinacia(sp?) and Vitamin C.
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:47 PM
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2. I am doing 1 of the three
I started guzzling my Emergen-C packets.

But I need to go get Zinc & Ecky ASAP
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:59 PM
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7. I hope you feel better!!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:47 PM
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3. Get a 12-ounce water glass. Fill it half full of Jack Daniel's,
and the other half with orange juice. Drink.

The OJ will give you the vitamin C you need, and the JD will knock you out so you get the sleep you need.

Sleep is the great healer.

Redstone
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gemdem Donating Member (975 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:49 PM
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4. Sounds like a plan
That should be followed daily. Never know when a cold might be coming on! ;-)
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 11:03 PM
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8. You betcha. Preventative medicine.
Redstone
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:56 PM
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5. For a cold, blackberry brandy. For flu Slivovitz.
That's about all the folk cures I have.
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blonndee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 10:57 PM
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6. Theraflu!!
Anytime I even think I'm getting sick I take Theraflu (the kind you make a hot drink with). It doesn't ALWAYS completely stop it but it does always make me feel better. And I hate taking medicine, but I never don't have some Theraflu (nighttime) in my medicine cabinet.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 11:13 PM
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9. Hot liquids and plenty of sleep. (1) Hot soup. (2) Long hot bath ..
with a big mug of hot peppermint tea. (3) More hot herbal tea after the bath. (4) Early to bed, with enough blankets and the heat cranked up.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 11:28 PM
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10. Go to the grocery store
and get 4 gallons of OJ.

Drink the first one... don't chug, just always have a glass in your hand.

Rinse... repeat.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 11:31 PM
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11. Put on a lot of clothes
Then go to bed with lots of blankets.

Try to sweat it out. Raise your temperature, kill the virus.

Give it a shot.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 01:29 AM
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12. AIRBORNE
I thought everyone knew by now. Amazing stuff. And the new pink grapefruit flavor is pretty tasty.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:44 AM
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13. yah, and Emergen-C
I stopped a cold from getting me once, I took a bunch of both for a couple days
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