How to keep cold free?

Hi All,
Have had a streaming cold this week, a peeling onions type with nose and eyes simply running.
OK…. a lot of people have at present, but for me it is one after another. I went to the doc's in early December as I'd got a cough. Not bad, but when I coughed it would keep going until I was almost sick. She checked out chest etc. and said it was ok, just a left over reaction to my previous infection. Got a cold at Christmas and coughed in unison with bro'-in-law. Things seemed to ease up, but the cough came back.
Two weeks ago, with christmas cold now gone but cough persisting I saw my own doctor who again checked me out the prescribed a steroid inhaler to get rid of the increasingly loud wheeze, and sent me off for a chest X-ray as a precaustion.
The inhaler stopped the cough dead. Brilliant. The X-ray came back clear, no further action needed, except by now I've a streaming cold again!!!!!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHH.

I work in a school, with others around me having similar chest infections and this cough, and have 2 teenage daughters who contribute to the total germ load when they bring stuff home from their school, so I seem to get it from all directions. It is a full-on job, so no lazing around, it is all go all of the time, and we've just gone through a redundancy exercise yesterday so it has been quite a stressful time too.

Somehow i've got to get rid of this cold and somehow keep germ free. My bike riding is getting to be zero and I'm feeling like a tub of lard.
So….how do people in school or 'front line' jobs involving meeting lots of people in one place manage to keep germ free?
cos it's really p*ssing me off big time………

cheers
( sniff)
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Edit: Damn you AndyP….damn you!

More sleep and MTFU, eventually you'll have had most strains of common cold due to excessive exposure 🙂

sorry for ruining your rubbish plan 😉

sorry for ruining your rubbish plan

Well of course it looks rubbish now. It would have been awesome left uncluttered by your nonsense! 😉

Chances are you're picking it up off doorhandles etc that the assorted cold-ridden pupils have been touching, then rubbing your eyes etc. I guess if you can keep your hands clean and not get coughed over, that may help.

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/12/health/he-coldflu12?pg=2

1. Spend as little time as you can in the presence of ill people

2. Eat lots of veg and fruit

3. Sleep as much as you can

4. Though this is a bit of an old wives tale, I try to adhere to it: don't suffer too many sharp changes in temperature.

5. Man the f….

i've seen ads for hand gels that you rub on yourself – supposed to protect you from picking up germs from doors etc. gof knows if they work but might be worth a try

jond:
Yes, true, but difficult to avoid when having to use 1960's narrow corridors absolutely stuffed full with kids.
Hmmmm the gels thing might be something to work on. With the Swine Flu epidemic going to kill us all (!) we had gel dispensers put in a lot of the labs, especially ones with computer keyboards. Though washing hands a lot ( in a lab ) I take the point about transfer of infections. Good one. Will use the gels.
Sleep is easy, perpetually fall asleep always when trying to watch a favourite prog!
Never quite sure what MTFU means, but as it's got to be a constant real problem, just wanted some advice! Even the wife has gone from the 'no sympathy, it'll make you worse ' approach (?? logic here???) to 'for goodness sake sort out the wheezing, it's keeping me awake!!!!
hey ho.
Taking some advice from up there and going to bed.
Night all
Q

gels that you rub on yourself

Ohhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaah….

Travel all over the country on trains for years.

Never get a cold again, as you've been exposed to all the germs out there.

Works for me.

The rest of my household and all their mates come in with eyes and nose streaming, I don't even get a sniff.

(Hope I haven't just stirred up the man flu gods)

Get twins in nursery, I have never know any thing like it. I thought there were 90 strains of the common cold, but there appear to be several thousand