Fighting a cold...and starting a new job Monday

[HipChick]

ex-co worker has been sneezing/coughing around me for the last 2 days...WITHOUT COVERING HIS MOUTH:spank:

I'm taking Elderberry,Zinc..a hot toddy...any other ideas?

[peacefreak]

1. I started taking

Dr. Thompson's Cold War. Lots of Zinc, vitamins, C & echinachea. Worked great. Hope you feel better soon.

[MrsBrady]

2. what I do is...

smash one garlic clove...down it with oj or something sweet to cut the taste.
I usually put the smashed/mushed garlic into a juice glass, and just cover it with enough oj to get it down in one swallow.

It works for me, that's all I can say. Garlic is a natural anti-viral/anti-biotic.
I usually take it when I feel something coming on. I eat something after, to avoid a garlic stomach...but that doesn't usually bother me.

Lots of water. Hot herbal teas.

Can't take too much vitamin C.

I'd get something with psuedoephedrine, if it's tolerable.

Not making any medical recommendations, but that is what I do.

[HopeHoops]

3. Has to beat showing up with drunk injuries caused by challenging a 6' Norwegian to a race (wasted).

Not kidding. In '85, while my new girlfriend and wife to be was visiting from out of state, I had a party - leaving one job and starting another. I got royally shitfaced. As my Norwegian coworker (who ran 10 miles a day) was leaving, I challenged him to a race. Against his better judgment, he agreed. He was half way down the block before he realized I hadn't made it two steps before taking a face splat on the street - major raspberries on my cheek bone and shoulder. Not only did my girlfriend STILL become my wife after having to clean me up, but I got to show up for my new job Monday morning with a huge patch of gauze on my face.

Just keep a lot of tissues handy and you'll do fine.

[grace0418]

4. We make a "cocktail" of one packet of Emergen-C mixed with one tablet of Airborne

whenever we feel a cold coming on. It works amazingly well. Good luck at your new job!

[unpossibles]

5. Mega doses of vitamin C (juices/fruit preferably), lots of habanero peppers and vodka

I know it shouldn't work but it does (the vodka I mean), perhaps because it dries me out?

[TZ]

6. plenty of rest, fluids, vitamin C

Everything else is really useless.

[Inchworm]

7. Drink your juice!

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