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Help!

I am about to get majorly sick.  I had a sore throat yesterday and today I am all dizzy and achey and sleepy.  Bring on the suggestions of preventative measures!  Anything you've actually tried, and that actually worked please!

I usually have a one day buffer that, if I take appropriate measures, I can dodge getting full-blown-sick and today is the day.

[andalucia]

Keep the fluids up, lots of bed rest.  Everything your parents told you is right.  Orange juice.

[V-Adore]

Yeah, exactly: orange juice, water, healthy food, and as much sleep as you can manage. Take care.

[acoxcae]

Airborne.  I don't know if you've heard of it or not, but it's basically an alka-seltzer tablet with enough Vitamin C (and some other beneficial vitamins) to nourish a small African village for a few months - dissolve in some water, and take at least twice about four hours apart.  If I catch things early enough, that has never failed to stop the progression - it's actually stopped a couple colds/flus even as they entered the first "hell day."

Also, sleep, and as much water as you can drink.

I apologize for the horrid taste and appearance of Airborne.

[wombat]

Cold-eeze zinc lozenges.  They have actual journal article citations on the box.  Either they really work, or I find an excellent placebo effect results from scientific journal citations.

[CortJstr]

My esso uses Airborne. She claims they help and don't taste totally like ass. Although I refuse to wash any glass she uses them in. That shit leaves an unholy residue.

[Turbo Ninja]

I had one of those about-to-get-sick days on Monday.  I jammed myself full of vitamin C courtesy of Naked Juice and a couple glasses of grapefruit juice.  I took a Tavist of some kind before bed on Monday night, and then I took a multi-vitamin and had three Cold-Eeze green tea zinc lozenges during the day on Tuesday.   A little chicken soup for lunch and a ham 'n cheese sandwich for dinner and I woke up feeling like a new man yesterday.

I'm still a wee bit sniffly but it's hell of preferable to the scratchy throat and stuffy head I had on Monday and Tuesday.

[arkabee]

i've heard the zinc thing, never tried it.

i buy 2 gallons of orange juice and drink until i can't drink anymore,
take as much b complex as i can.
and take some nyquil to goto sleep earlier than normal.

the next day keep drinking the orange juice.

edit-
and get sick anyways.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I've been told Zicam works well.

[Turbo Ninja]

Don't overdo your intake of vitamins and minerals.  Your body gets full up on that stuff and can't process anymore after a certain threshold, and you end up flushing the excess away (literally [unless you have an outhouse or just piss in the backyard or something, but I'm assuming you have a flushable toilet if you've able to read this on the Internet]).

Wait three or four hours between megadosing, people.  That's what I'm trying to say.

[Doc]

I know with vitamin C at least it is so water soluble that anything your body doesn't need right then is excreted right quick so I favour the many many glasses of juice method over the tablet form.

[miles]

I know with vitamin C at least it is so water soluble that anything your body doesn't need right then is excreted right quick so I favour the many many glasses of juice method over the tablet form.

Yeah, except tablets have no calories.  For those like me trying to get rid of a gut, orange juice has too much sugar to be doing this.

[Doc]

But calories are so deliciously tasty.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Take lots and lots of vitamin c,  and proper dosages of zinc. Vitamin C is water soluble so if you overdose, you'll get the runs, but you'll be okay. Use the recommended dosage of zinc; if you start popping zinc like candy, you should know there's an inverse relationship between zinc and copper; too much of one will lower your body's stores of the other. Generally a multivitamin has balanced levels.

[side_show]

Thanks all.

Unfortunatly I have to avoid vitamin C in large amounts as in pill or juice form it gives me severe heart burn, which is why I'm awake right now at a quarter to three AM.  I drank juice and ate Christmas oranges.  Ohh.  I should be sleeping, but instead I am not... sleeping.  Ohh...  Why is it that when I get a cold I feel like I just want to curl up and die?  Gah!