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Best way to avoid colds

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  • #52
    Djoucer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭Djoucer


    It’s true. I’m now immune to orange juice so have to find an alternative vitamin C source.

    Luckily, those nice supplement companies provide me with lots of expensive alternatives.


  • #53
    The Hound Gone Wild
    Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭The Hound Gone Wild


    Stark wrote: »
    That sounds like very suspect advice (the bit about building up immunity to anything). Are you sure this was a qualified pharmacist and not some "homeopathic" or "holistic" one?

    The Pharmacist was spot on. Tolerance can build up after continuous use of a medication. The receptors the drug binds to become desensitized to the presence of the drug & don't work as well, leading to less of the drug being up-taken.

    As for their advice re. Vitamin tolerance, it's a new one to me. It doesn't make much sense. (Unless you're taking Pharmaton) The body will only absorb what it needs. Most people don't need a daily vitamin unless your Dr has told you about a deficiency after a blood test. There's no real harm in it though, at worse you'll have expensive wee!


  • #54
    IvoryTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    Okay so to summarise, if you want to avoid a cold


    avoid people
    get flu jab
    eat all the colours of the rainbow
    quality sleep
    dont have kids
    Echinacea
    multivitamin
    vit c
    vit d
    garlic
    zinc
    L glutamine
    cold shower every day
    carry hand sanitiser(and use it)
    low stress levels
    extra 30min sleep
    wash hands
    more sleep
    curries!
    Onions

    Edit: onions added


  • #55
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    Plenty of garlic and onions in your diet.


  • #56
    RayCun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    IvoryTower wrote: »
    Okay so to summarise, if you want to avoid a cold


    avoid people
    get flu jab
    eat all the colours of the rainbow
    quality sleep
    dont have kids
    Echinacea
    multivitamin
    vit c
    vit d
    garlic
    zinc
    L glutamine
    cold shower every day
    carry hand sanitiser(and use it)
    low stress levels
    extra 30min sleep
    wash hands
    more sleep
    curries!

    And when you do get a cold you'll tell yourself it would have been worse if you hadn't been taking zinc tablets...


  • #57
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,855 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    IvoryTower wrote: »
    Okay so to summarise, if you want to avoid a cold


    avoid people
    get flu jab
    eat all the colours of the rainbow
    quality sleep
    dont have kids
    Echinacea
    multivitamin
    vit c
    vit d
    garlic
    zinc
    L glutamine
    cold shower every day
    carry hand sanitiser(and use it)
    low stress levels
    extra 30min sleep
    wash hands
    more sleep
    curries!

    Right off to the chemist


  • #58
    Murph_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,489 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Best cure for the cold is to wait it out. Works almost 100% of the time.


  • #59
    laura_ac3
    Registered Users Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭laura_ac3


    Murph_D wrote: »
    Best cure for the cold is to wait it out. Works almost 100% of the time.

    Anecdotal evidence based on personal testimony doesn't produce such reliable numbers. At least 90% of statistics are made up.


  • #60
    6run28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭6run28


    If all that doesnt work to prevent it - a big mug of grated ginger , garlic, honey, lemon and hot water will fix you right up


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  • #61
    jamule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    Hot whiskeys are great. After being flat out drinking them for 4 or 5 days your cold is gone and you can't remember having one


  • #62
    bryangiggsy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭bryangiggsy


    2 tablespoons of cod liver oil daily.


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    FLU time line..

    First day, horrendous, cant get off the bed. MONDAY
    second day, still almost as bad but can take hot drinks and maybe soup.
    third day, can come out of bed for soup and maybe light brekkie, back to bed.
    fourth day can eat normal food and binge watch game of thrones under blanket
    with intermittent non interrupted naps
    5th Day FRIDAY, No work tomorrow so you really can relax even more . Progress now gauged by recovery time between **** on pornhub!!
    3 **** and you're better, you're foolin nobody... back to work monday, back to gym following monday.


  • #64
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,535 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Personally I know I'll pick up maybe one, possibly 2, headcolds in a year. I accept it, but equally I tend to throw them off in a couple of days. I think that's because my immune system has had plenty of practice

    The only thing I now actively try and avoid is the flu. I've never had it, but now take the view I may as well have the jab, which I've done for the past 2 winters. It does not guarantee anything but even if you do get the flu I'm told it is likely to significantly ease the symptoms


  • #65
    shotgunmcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    jamule wrote: »
    Hot whiskeys are great. After being flat out drinking them for 4 or 5 days your cold is gone and you can't remember having one

    Brilliant, thank you. Actually have tears from laughing :D


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