Tips/Tricks for getting over the flu/cold

[selarep]

What tips/tricks do you use?

Tip:
When you're nose is running, tilt your head back and let a few drops of ICE COLD water flow down the back of your nasal cavities. Use a medicine dropper. It will stop the mucus from running for a while.

(i'm sick as all hell right now and trying to get over it ASAP)

 

[Boatwrench]

I drink a bunch of "Airborne" The take a real hot shower, climb into thermal u/w and then sweats outwear. Pull on a wool watch cap and wool socks. Get a heavy sleeping bag, bottle of Jameson's climb out onto the deck, throw back a few shots and nap in the afternoon sun.

Cooks it right out of you.

 

[JeepFreak21]

DayQuil FTW!!!
Billy

 

[5-90]

Green tea, with honey and lemon (and a bit of rum or brandy, if you're so inclined.) There are enzymes in the tea that help to flush you out. The honey will help to coat your throat (may be omitted if your throat is not irritated) and the citric acid and vitamin C in the lemon will both help you. Booze? I've yet to meed a germ that can live in ethanol - if it can, it deserves a chance!

LOTS of water. Flush out your system. If you're getting up to pump bilges about every half-hour, you're on the right track.

Get out your blankets, turn the heater OFF, and open the windows. Turn some fans on, and bundle up. Keep yourself warm, but keep the air around you COLD and MOVING. Don't breathe "the same air" over and over again, and letting it get cold really does help to kill the virii a little quicker.

Shower at least twice a day. Same reason as having the windows open - you're getting the virii off of you as well. Besides, a good hot shower builds up steam, which will help you clear your sinuses.

 

[Ralph]

Eat, sleep and drink plenty of water. If things don't improve after a couple of days, get your ass to the doctor. Your cold may have developed into an upper respitory infection for which a prescription of antibiotics are needed. If at all possible, do not go to work. There's nothing worse than someone who thinks the pitiful effort they can make while ill is worth exposing everyone else to their illness. Stay home, get well.

 

[woody]

Bourbon...mixed with more bourbon

Like a dumbass, I took a flu shot this year on/around Oct 16th... and have been sick more times in the past month than I ever have. The last bout was something stomachy: W/O gory details, lets just say it came on really fast. 8AM fine, 9AM woozy & stuck out on the road, 9:30 looking for a likely place to park & shoot myself, 12:15 going out both ends, sometimes at the same time. It was over by midnight, but the next day I felt like I'd been flogged. Real Fun.

 

[Glenn B]

Jägermeister or Ouzo. Anything else, other than bourbon is just too weak for real men.

 

[5-90]

Bourbon...mixed with more bourbon

Like a dumbass, I took a flu shot this year on/around Oct 16th... and have been sick more times in the past month than I ever have. The last bout was something stomachy: W/O gory details, lets just say it came on really fast. 8AM fine, 9AM woozy & stuck out on the road, 9:30 looking for a likely place to park & shoot myself, 12:15 going out both ends, sometimes at the same time. It was over by midnight, but the next day I felt like I'd been flogged. Real Fun.

I've gotten a flu shot twice in my life. It works - both times were the worst bouts of grippe I've ever had...

I don't bother anymore.

 

[RTicUL8]

Natural Remedies:

#1) Russian Penicillin: With a garlic press - put 3-to-4 garlic cloves in 1/2 cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Bottoms up! It tastes like $hit, makes you want to heave, and gives you garlic breath. But it's very deadly to cold/flu bugs.

#2) Hydrotherapy: Hot/Cold showers. (You'll probably need someone with a stopwatch to help you with this one)
Take a hot shower for 5-10 min.
then ice cold for 30 seconds
hot for 2 minutes
ice cold for 30 seconds
hot for 2 minutes
ice cold for 30 seconds
turn the water off.

You'll be chilly, but it will get your blood circulating efficiently.


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[jmowens]

I've gotten a flu shot twice in my life. It works - both times were the worst bouts of grippe I've ever had...

I don't bother anymore.

Same experience. 1st time I thought it was a fluke (and the Dr. swore there was no way it was the flu. 2nd time proved it for me. I will NEVER take one again!

 

[selarep]

I think my cold has developed into Strep Throat, AGAIN. I get it often, thankfully the VA is fast over here, I'm going in at 9 tomorrow.

I'm gonna try that russian penicillin in a minute.

 

[HaleYes]

When I start to feel "under the weather" I take large doses of Vitamin C.
I usually pull out of it in a day or two. I don't know if it's the Vitamin C or just my immune system fighting it off, but I have not had the flu for very long time.
I get a flu shot every year too.



Hale

 

[8Mud]

I've had the flu for 10 days now, it started three days after I got my flu shot. My doctor said the same thing, the two aren't related.
My two dogs got into it tonight and like a novice dummy, I stuck my hand in there to separate them. After half a dozen stitches, my hand swollen to twice it's normal size and a constant pounding ache, I hardly notice my runny nose anymore. Lots of pain and adrenalin seems to have worked wonders on my flu, not a remedy I'd recommend, but it seems to work.

 

[Stumpalump]

A flu shot kicks your imune system in the arse for a few days so never get one when your run down. I eat well and sleep alot right after the shot and basically treat myself like I'm sick.If not, with your imune system compromised by the flu shot you are suseptable to getting sick.
Zircam at the first sign of a cold. It's that zink stuff like cold-ez that you spray in your nose. The next phase is Benadryl to stop the running down the back of your throat. If I don't get on Benadryl quick I wind up with a ripped sore throat. Stop the Benadryl as soon as your runny nose turns to thick snot and then get on sudaphed to clear your head and avoid sinus infection. You have to ask for the real sudaphed from behind the counter now and you can take up to 9 a day to keep your head clear. Salt spray up your nose is majic also because bacteria can't grow in it or the zink stuff so you will avoid the sinus infection and doctor visit. Water is also key but you get sick of water so buy some Gaterade to stop from flushing all your electrolights out.
Zicam, Benadryl.Sudsphed, Gateraid. Go easy on the Zicam or you will lose you sense of smell.

 

[sjkimmel99]

Get this stuff called Oscillococcinum from the health food store. One dose dissolves under the tongue every 6 hours at the first signs. Also take a real hot bath to induce an artificial fever to cook the virii.

 

[nick86]

12 pack of Budweiser fixes me up.

 

[HaleYes]

Get this stuff called Oscillococcinum from the health food store. One dose dissolves under the tongue every 6 hours at the first signs. Also take a real hot bath to induce an artificial fever to cook the virii.

Maybe that's why I don't get sick much. I take really hot showers. :dunno:

 

[5-90]

12 pack of Budweiser fixes me up.

Sounds about right. I usually get sick when my BAC drops below an acceptable level...

 

[Ralph]

Sounds about right. I usually get sick when my BAC drops below an acceptable level...

Hmmm, maybe you've got something there. I'll have three fingers of bourbon and a cigar every evening after supper and I honestly don't remember the last time I was sick.

 

[5-90]

Hmmm, maybe you've got something there. I'll have three fingers of bourbon and a cigar every evening after supper and I honestly don't remember the last time I was sick.

"All things are good in moderation. Including moderation."

Occasional binges are good for the soul. Keeping the soul healthy is helpful to keeping the body healthy - or recovering when you're not. Why do you think I've survived after having been through so much?

Besides, cigars don't have all the added yock that cigarettes do, so they're "less unhealthy," say, than a few sticks a day. And, cigar smoking is as much a "contemplative" experience as anything else, which allows you to review the events of the day/week/whatever and get them sorted in your head. Again, healthy for the soul.

Besides, I'm Scottish. We're supposed to keep body tissues saturated with ethanol at all times - it's a requirement of being a Scot!:laugh3: As long as it's not tequila, I'm a happy drunk (giving me tequila in quantity is like wiring up a time bomb. But you don't know what the timer is going to be set for, so it could blow up right in your face. No, I don't know why either...:firedevil )