Cold Remedies

[Bravosarah]

Here I am, sick as a dog, drinking tea with lemon juice, for dinner I'll have chicken noodle soup. I've been taking ColdFX and am feeling better than I did yesterday.

I was wondering what's YOUR cold remedy?

 

[Robyn]

Airborne and emergen-c. And sleep as much as possible.

 

[Jilly]

Neo-Citran, forget the water, use Gin!

 

[ski diva]

Cuddle up in a blanket on the couch and watch an old movie. Dress in your most comfortable clothes. Drink tea with honey. Have some chicken soup. Don't work or cook. If you have to do something (like work), take Sudafed (the kind you have to sign for now at the drug store; not the stuff on the shelf). Afrin nasal spray at night, to help you sleep (but only for a few days. You can get dependent, I hear). Tylenol during the day, for the aches and pains.

Feel better. I feel sorry for you; I HATE colds.

 

[Bravosarah]

Neo-Citran, forget the water, use Gin!

LOL, just the excuse I need! Thanks.

 

[skihawk]

I love EmergenC and Zinc cough drops (even though they taste like chalk the Zinc does help remedy a cold).

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Zinc lozenges, Vitamin C, echinacea, tea and sleep.
Feel better soon!

 

[num]

I grew up eating pomegranate and drinking boiling hot water with a little honey and a lot of lemon or lime squeezed into it for colds. Always threw the lemon/lime in after squeezing as much as possible out (wash it before cutting).

I like Ski Diva's movie suggestion because as kooky as it sounds, I really think feeling positive helps recovery along and being unhappy hinders it and draws recovery time out, at least for me. So curl up with a good book, catch up with a friend, whatever gets your mind in a good place. Hitting the punching bag and painting both do me wonders, but I'm a little weird

If medicine's necessary to get through the day (work, whatever) my vote is for Advil Cold and Sinus. It's got pseudoephedrine in it, so you have to get it from behind the counter too.

Rest up, stay warm, take in a bunch of nutrients and stay positive.

Hope you feel better soon!

 

[Pequenita]

Hitting the punching bag and painting both do me wonders, but I'm a little weird

I go in the weird category, too. If it's just the beginnings of feeling a cold, I actually go for a run or something to raise my temperature. I have a completely irrational belief that if I raise my temperature, it will kill the evil microbes. I have no idea if this is true, but if anything, it gets me drinking more fluids and I crash in bed.

My remedies once a cold emerges are: 1) Nyquil to sleep (esp. if I have a stuffed up nose); 2) Dayquil to keep me awake but still buzzed; 3) lots of fluids, usually tea with honey and lemon; and 4) not staying up to midnight posting on message boards.

Feel better soon!

 

[Kano]

The movie suggestion -- the comfy clothes. I get a hoody and not one but two favorite quilts. I wear the hood, I wrap my head and throat in one of the quilts and pile the other on the rest of me. Being really warm makes me inhospitable to the germs. Lots of water. And I sleep in my recliner, semi upright the worst night(s) of my cold. I don't seem to sludge up so badly, and that's a good thing! If I'm kind of clogged up, but otherwise don't feel too lousy, something really active is good too -- if it makes me cough, that's okay, stuff gets knocked loose! -- I can always breathe better after getting out in the fresh air being active.

Kano

 

[persee]

Not this year, but 2 years ago the way I busted up a case of bronchitis that was coming on was to force myself on the skiers edge for 15 minutes each morning, even tho I just felt like staying curled up in bed. Never got full blown bronchitis or even had to call the dr!

However for me generally if I'm starting to feel a cold I just keep going and ignore it to try to make it go away. If a cold really gets me, it will get in my lungs and I'll have fullblown bronchitis/pneumonia so its a lot more involved to get healthy. My attitude has been "refuse to get sick", which has worked fairly well so far...

 

[MaineSkiLady]

latest victim

Darn. And a good skiing weather week, too...:mad: Oh well, follow my own advice given above, plus a few others. This too shall pass...

 

[sleddog]

Fresh pineapple - several pieces a day - at the first sign of a scratchy throat or sneezy feeling-I've only had one cold in 4 years since trying this remedy. This is based on a study from the Univ of Wisconsin Medical College.

 

[num]

Get better soon, MSL! The mountains will be preparing for your return

 

[soundgarden]

Neti it up

I am a recent convert to the Neti pot. I suffer from awful year round allergies. This is 100% natural and seems to work. My b/f had a cold in the past week w/a lot of congestion. He did the Neti pot 2x a day and said that it cleared up his congestion. For those unfamiliar, the Neti pot is for nasal irrigation. It's filled w/warm water & a saline solution, and you basically pour it up your nose, and the liquid goes through your nasal cavity & out the other nostril. It doesn't hurt and isn't really uncomfortable, once you get over sticking something up your nose.

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Hmmmm, in between the pineapple and the nasal saline (are you sure I won't drown???), I'm so confused, I'd probably wind up putting the pineapple up my nose! :ROTF: Which probably would hurt less! I think I'm beating this just on the laugh factor, another "near miss" for this diva. Gonna hit the mt on Wednesday, virus go home But first---an old "make me smile" movie (and a word from our sponsor?)...

 

[robynb]

ZICAM....

 

[NannyMin]

ZICAM....

I completely agree! Being around children I get exposed to all kinds of stuff. I've been able to halt the progression of many colds with the wonder stuff.

I wish I had something similar for frostbite! :Cry: