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15 posts & 13 voices | Started 1 year ago by thatscold | Latest reply from skidartist

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thatscold - Member

I currently have my forth cold in as many months, and I'm really fed up with being ill. The thing is I have 1 year old twins and they seem to catch everything going and then pass it on to me. (It's hard to avoid when you get sneezed in the face).

Before the twins came along I could go from one year to the next without getting a cold, even when everyone in my office was ill. I guess this is one of the joys of being a parent, and something they don't tell you about.

Any tips on avoiding another cold next month?

Posted 1 year ago #
FoxyChick - Member

I'd suggest selling them on the classifieds!!

Posted 1 year ago #
thatscold - Member

Tempting, but I'm not sure my wife would forgive me!

Posted 1 year ago #
Brian Sampson - Member

It`s controversial but try 1000mg of Vitamin C a day. I get loads of cold every winter and have always thought the vitamin C option was a load of rubbish. Been taking Vitamin C effervescent drinks daily since November and so far not a single cold... Of course this isn't proof but though I would mention it all the same.

Posted 1 year ago #
nickc - Member

I've had more than my fair share this winter, I've had 3 in as many weeks (it feels like). Luck of draw really

Posted 1 year ago #
mogrim - Member

It's only their first year, get past April(ish) and it'll die down. Next year should be better!

Posted 1 year ago #
dyna-ti - Member

Fellow i use to work with was a carrier of the cold,because of that he never had one,i worked next to him,and i never caught one in the 3 yrs we worked the same block

Posted 1 year ago #
racing_ralph - Member

aids?

Posted 1 year ago #
skidartist - Member

It`s controversial but try 1000mg of Vitamin C a day

High doses of vitamin C show a marginal benefit amongst a population in that the number of days per year with a cold is slightly less. As an individual the difference isn't something you'd actually be able to notice measure, and it certainly wouldn't stop you from getting colds. That would be the illusive "cure for the common cold" and there isn't a cure for the common cold. There is the effective marketing of expensive piss though, and the branding of food as medicine.

Vit C or any other guff is like pushing the button at the pedestrian crossing repeatedly, its not going to do anything, but it makes you feel like you are doing something and that helps pass the time. However I would worry about all the other complex biochemical processes you are screwing up loading your system with vitamins, and I'd also worry as to why people medicate themselves when they're not sick. I think it would be healthier to save the money spent on vit c tablets, stick it in an envelope and post it to somewhere that nourishment and medication aren't quite so taken for granted.

Posted 1 year ago #
Christowkid - Member

thatscold:
Thank goodness for your post - I thought it was only me!
Working in a school, with kids in another, both seem to be a hot house germ factory so I get it both ways. I simply cannot get free of them. It's gone through a standing joke with my mates, they are now are starting to worry about me.
I've lost the 8 week cough after 2 trips to the doc's + X-ray in early January, since then am currently shifting my 3rd cold. It means I feel like cr*p all of the time and riding isn't happening...... it really is imposing on my quality of life.
sorry. rant over.

I used to take Vit C some years beack, then there seemed to be considerable discussion as to whether it did any good, or actually did harm having a high dose per day. Maybe I need to try again.
Any other tips?
Q
( currently blowing nose...)

ps.... comparing notes with Bro'-in-law in the Midlands ( I'm in SW, ) and he's been the same. We sneezed and coughed in harmony over Xmas - ahhhh bless. But he too is really suffering one after another. It seems to be widespread this year.

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

I think it would be healthier to save the money spent on vit c tablets, stick it in an envelope and post it to somewhere that nourishment and medication aren't quite so taken for granted.

and all other dietary supplements

What I don't understand is why I never get ill, not for years and years, yet my diet is at best haphazard and unimaginative, mainly carbs and chocolate with a few yummy veg thrown in (ie no meat) and by rights I should be sickly...

Posted 1 year ago #
Ewan - Member

Eat garlic.

Posted 1 year ago #
chakaping - Member

Same here, had more colds in the last year than in the last decade it seems, so I'm thinking of banning our daughter from baby group.

Posted 1 year ago #
M6TTF - Member

Take echinacea and zinc supplements too - meant to help, I went through the same thing with my littlun

Posted 1 year ago #
skidartist - Member

Its all just luck and circumstance, some walks of life have a high exposure, some a low one, when I worked in a prison and spent time cooped up with people who themselves are cooped up all the time I had colds all the time. In fact I seemed to catch every cold twice - catch one in the wild, infect the prison population and it would change hands so many times it seemed like it would have evolved enough for me to catch it again two weeks later.

Now that both me and my GF work by ourselves, and we live out in the sticks I hardly every get them, one or two a year max, usually when a 2 year old nephew visits. He came to visit last weekend and right now the build up of high pressure snot is trying to push my left eyeball out of its socket.

I'm supposed to be walking up the red carpet at a movie premiere this evening and I look and feel a total drooling wreck, think I might try and break in through the fire exit instead.

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