How often do you get a cold?

Student2014 · 04-01-2014 12:14PM #1

This year from what I remember I had a cold in end September/start October, again end November/start December.

And this week I have a very tame version of it, but still annoying. I also had it in February and April this year from what I remember, maybe I had it over the summer but I don`t remember that I did.

So thats five-ish, possible six times in a year

I could do with being more disciplined on the oul five portions of fruit and veg I suppose.

How often do you get a cold?

nice_guy80 · 04-01-2014 02:11PM

never.
seriously

cowlove · 04-01-2014 02:14PM

It has been years since I've had the flu. I drink lemon in hot water every morning and I feel this helps.

Alf Veedersane · 04-01-2014 02:22PM

You're talking about a cold. Manflu is just a less embarrassing name for being a pussy about having a cold. It's viral so having a bit more fruit and veg is unlikely to have a massive difference. I'm open to correction on that but I'm pretty sure that's the case

Stench Blossoms · 04-01-2014 02:42PM

A lot of people think they have the flu when in fact they just have a cold.

If there was 50e on the ground and you're too fooked to pick it up, then you have a flu.

04-01-2014 02:43PM

Oh you know I have the flu but I'm supposed to go out tonight so sure I might as well go out and have a few

...

endacl · 04-01-2014 02:47PM

I had the flu once. There's no such thing as 'a touch of the flu'. If you've had it, you know it! Nearly two weeks in bed. Couldn't move, couldn't eat. Could barely even think at one point. Lost 12 pounds.

In answer to the question though, I sometimes feel a bit less than 100%. I never get manflu though. Manflu is bull5hit in the same way as 'a touch of the flu' is.

Student2014 · 04-01-2014 03:08PM

Ok guys let me rephrase my question to avoid any confusion between a cold and the flu :pac::

This year from what I remember I had a cold in end September/start October, again end November/start December.

And this week I have a very tame version of it, but still annoying. I also had it in February and April this year from what I remember, maybe I had it over the summer but I don`t remember that I did.

So thats five-ish, possible six times in a year

I could do with being more disciplined on the oul five portions of fruit and veg I suppose.

How often do you get a cold?

Stench Blossoms · 04-01-2014 03:13PM

Student2014 wrote: »

How often do you get a cold?

Didn't have one last year.

Student2014 · 04-01-2014 03:26PM

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Didn't have one last year.

Nice

LuckyLloyd · 04-01-2014 03:32PM

Since training regularly, eating / sleeping better and supplementing Vit C I have barely had a sniffle.

My housemate rarely exercises, eats and sleeps poorly and has had a cough / cold it seems for weeks.

There are lots of myths around colds, at root you still have to be exposed to the virus one way or another. The difference is how robust your immune system is in terms of warding it off.

BrianD3 · 04-01-2014 03:53PM

I haven't had a sick day from work in over 12 years and while I do get colds they're not frequent and I barely notice them. I'd say I might get one a year.

I don't think it has much to do with fruit and veg intake.

When I was in school/college I was getting worse colds more frequently. Not surprising I suppose considering I'd be sitting in a lecture theatre with 100 people many of them coughing or smokers or who had been out the previous night.

Student2014 · 04-01-2014 04:33PM

BrianD3 wrote: »

I haven't had a sick day from work in over 12 years and while I do get colds they're not frequent and I barely notice them. I'd say I might get one a year.

I don't think it has much to do with fruit and veg intake.

When I was in school/college I was getting worse colds more frequently. Not surprising I suppose considering I'd be sitting in a lecture theatre with 100 people many of them coughing or smokers or who had been out the previous night.

Yeah, I guess the environment your in could have a big impact. There was one period when I worked in a nice office building with free fruit available in the hall, I never caught a cold when I worked there.

Anybody around young kids a lot get colds more often?

newmug · 04-01-2014 04:54PM

I'm like you OP, its just a never-ending cycle of having a cold, beating it, getting another one etc.

Fruit and veg have nothing to do with it. That's bollox of the highest order. I eat enough F+V for 2 people every day and it makes no difference.

I think it has something to do with your whole sinus / respiratory / throat system, and the relationship between them. I produce a woeful amount of thick snot every day, my sinuses just seem to get irritated very easily. Its a family thing, all my fathers side have nasal-y problems. With a pint of snot running down the back of your throat every day, its bound to pick up more germs than your average person.

Then your throat gets infected. This leads to ear infections and puffy eyes.

Then at night, while unconscious and lying down, you cant just blow your nose or cough up phlegm, so it oozes into your lungs and just sits there. Then this gets infected. You wake up with your chest feeling like a slurry tank, and in the morning your coughing and spluttering sounds like a diesel locomotive trying to start.

Exercise helps by loosening the sh1te in your chest, but that's about it. By midday, you've coughed up about a cupful of green sludge, you've sucked down about the same from your head, and things are clear. The rest of the day will just involve nursing your sore ear, eating cold food to help your throat, and keeping the snot, albeit now clear snot, moving.

And so bed-time comes. The cycle will start all over again. This will go on for 6 weeks. Then you might have a reprieve of a month or so. Then another 6 week cold. Then another break. Life is not very pleasant. And all of this happens because the lining in your sinuses is too fussy. Sinussess, I am disappoint.

On a side note, I find onion-type products help make the snot more runny, and therefore easier to deal with. Anything oniony, garlic, scallions, shallots, and also eucalyptus.

siochain · 04-01-2014 04:57PM

not in at least 5+ years, pick up the odd stomach ailment but haven't had a cold in years.

touch wood probably hanging next week

04-01-2014 04:58PM

Whenever I get stressed for too long, I get one

_Redzer_ · 04-01-2014 04:59PM

The only things that make me sick are the occasional migraines, I never get colds or bugs. To the best of my memory I've also never gotten the flu.

My diet is full of fruit and veg and as a kid we were a bit OD'd on garlic so that might explain a lot.

cletus van damme · 04-01-2014 05:01PM

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

A lot of people think they have the flu when in fact they just have a cold.

If there was 50e on the ground and you're too fooked to pick it up, then you have a flu.

based on that definition , I have never had the flu and I never will.

mitosis · 04-01-2014 05:04PM

Maybe one cold per year. But then I avoid touching other people as much as possible. Had the 'flu in 2011, first time in at least 20 years - that's a proper bitch of an illness.

04-01-2014 05:11PM

I've been bravely battling man-flu for the past 3 days. I think I may just survive. Maybe.

Seriously, though, I get a cold once every 2-3 years. I've had the flu once when I was about 10.

dastardly00 · 04-01-2014 05:20PM

I normally only get one cold per year, and it's always around Christmas/New Year's (I have it at the moment

).
Although in 2013 I had a couple of colds in August/September, and I put that down to my immune system being weaker than normal as I had just started a job, moved house, and was preparing for my driving test!!

username123 · 04-01-2014 05:24PM

newmug wrote: »

I think it has something to do with your whole sinus / respiratory / throat system, and the relationship between them. I produce a woeful amount of thick snot every day, my sinuses just seem to get irritated very easily. Its a family thing, all my fathers side have nasal-y problems.

I suffer with my sinuses. Start rinsing them, it really helps.

Two years ago I finally quit smoking AND saw a good ENT who operated on my nasal polyps and got me on a routine of sinus rinses and nasal spray. Since then I haven't had a cold. I used to get colds that would hang around for 6 weeks, produce buckets of mucous, it'd get into my ears, my chest, I'd be wrecked. Now a cold hasn't a chance of taking hold with my lovely clear sinus cavities being rinsed daily. And I'm sleeping better than I have in ten years.

metamorphosis · 04-01-2014 05:45PM

I think maybe once in the last 2 years, could carry on as normal though, no biggie.

newmug · 04-01-2014 05:55PM

username123 wrote: »

I suffer with my sinuses. Start rinsing them, it really helps.

Two years ago I finally quit smoking AND saw a good ENT who operated on my nasal polyps and got me on a routine of sinus rinses and nasal spray. Since then I haven't had a cold. I used to get colds that would hang around for 6 weeks, produce buckets of mucous, it'd get into my ears, my chest, I'd be wrecked. Now a cold hasn't a chance of taking hold with my lovely clear sinus cavities being rinsed daily. And I'm sleeping better than I have in ten years.

How do you rinse them? This sounds like the answer to my prayers, tell me more!

username123 · 04-01-2014 07:58PM

newmug wrote: »

How do you rinse them? This sounds like the answer to my prayers, tell me more!

Google Neilmed Sinus Rinse, you get it in normal chemists, it's just little salt sachets and a squeeze bottle. You put warm water in the bottle, add a sachet, squeeze up each nostril, sinus clearing heaven. Takes a while to get used to doing it and the effects are cumulative so if you do it once a day you will really notice the difference after a couple of weeks (although there is immediate relief).

Just so as not to go off topic, sinus rinsing really helps if you have a cold.

Student2014 · 06-01-2014 03:11PM

username123 wrote: »

Just so as not to go off topic, sinus rinsing really helps if you have a cold.

Just bought some of this Neilmed sinus rinse stuff, sick of waking up in the morning this last few days not able to talk cause i`m all blocked up.

Would you take it the night before or just when you get up or both?

SteelyDanJalapeno · 06-01-2014 03:16PM

newmug wrote: »

I'm like you OP, its just a never-ending cycle of having a cold, beating it, getting another one etc.

Fruit and veg have nothing to do with it. That's bollox of the highest order. I eat enough F+V for 2 people every day and it makes no difference.

I think it has something to do with your whole sinus / respiratory / throat system, and the relationship between them. I produce a woeful amount of thick snot every day, my sinuses just seem to get irritated very easily. Its a family thing, all my fathers side have nasal-y problems. With a pint of snot running down the back of your throat every day, its bound to pick up more germs than your average person.

Then your throat gets infected. This leads to ear infections and puffy eyes.

Then at night, while unconscious and lying down, you cant just blow your nose or cough up phlegm, so it oozes into your lungs and just sits there. Then this gets infected. You wake up with your chest feeling like a slurry tank, and in the morning your coughing and spluttering sounds like a diesel locomotive trying to start.

Exercise helps by loosening the sh1te in your chest, but that's about it. By midday, you've coughed up about a cupful of green sludge, you've sucked down about the same from your head, and things are clear. The rest of the day will just involve nursing your sore ear, eating cold food to help your throat, and keeping the snot, albeit now clear snot, moving.

And so bed-time comes. The cycle will start all over again. This will go on for 6 weeks. Then you might have a reprieve of a month or so. Then another 6 week cold. Then another break. Life is not very pleasant. And all of this happens because the lining in your sinuses is too fussy. Sinussess, I am disappoint.

On a side note, I find onion-type products help make the snot more runny, and therefore easier to deal with. Anything oniony, garlic, scallions, shallots, and also eucalyptus.

Disgusting post!

JJayoo · 06-01-2014 03:30PM

I haven't been sick in any way since I was about 17.

Student2014 · 06-01-2014 03:35PM

JJayoo wrote: »

I haven't been sick in any way since I was about 17.

Not even sick in the head? :pac:

Joke, thats good for you. What age are you now and Whats your lifestyle.

Alf Veedersane · 06-01-2014 03:36PM

Student2014 wrote: »

Not even sick in the head? :pac:

Joke, thats good for you. What age are you now and Whats your lifestyle.

He's not allowed to answer that before the watershed.

Stench Blossoms · 06-01-2014 03:49PM

Student2014 wrote: »

Not even sick in the head? :pac:

Joke, thats good for you. What age are you now and Whats your lifestyle.

His lifestyle is me.

He does me. That keeps him fit and healthy.

How often do you get a cold?

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