h a l f b a k e r yAsk your doctor if the Halfbakery is right for you.
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It'll never work. The buggers mutate. |
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What st3f said - in a nutshell:
'Cures' in a Bottle change Cold Structures, i.e. Next person who catches a Cold from Person who tried curing self by the teaspoon ends up with a new variation on the theme, etc.
To knock a cold or flu dead, I recommend Vitamin C, Oscillococcinum and echinacea upon onset of symptoms and throughout short duration - No habitual supplemental usage except for Vitamin C for either of the others as regular use renders effect useless.
Cilantro, Onions and a bit of lime as topping on foods during that time works wonders as well. Menudo, which is a folklorical cure is traditionally topped by these items. Menudo isn't the cure however - thankfully so, as it is quite revolting. Having a tasty Carne Asada Burrito with those same toppings works the same wonders - instantly, I might add - and does so without use of highly suspect animal parts. |
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Thritto (ditto to thumbwax's ditto of st3f). That's why workplaces or shared apartments can end up like hospices for months on end - because despite conquering one strain of the cold, by the time the person you've infected conquers it, the cold has mutated to a strain that you're susceptible to, and the whole process just starts again. |
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I don't know about the rest of those weird-sounding thingamabubs, but I use Vitamin C bombs (1g each) and zinc tablets to kill my colds stone dead, ever since being told that zinc enhances the body's ability to absorb Vitamin C that would otherwise just be pissed away. I find most colds don't last more than a day or two now. |
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It's all about mental attitude: just don't get sick in the first place. |
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Contrary to DrBob's idea, it's not that easy
to "not get sick" but what st3f said is right,
the cold viruses mutate at alarming rates. |
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Flu virus mutates at an alarming rate. I could find no evidence that cold viruses do, but there is apparently a lot less known about them. I found that there were over 100 different types of rhinovirus, and that one becomes immunolgically resistant to an increasing number of types over a lifetime. |
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There must be a reason you cannot vaccinate against a lot of stuff at once. Flu viruses stimulate immunity only against 3-4 types at once. Or maybe not - kids get mixed vaccines. Maybe the number of flu viruses in the vaccine is limited because of cost reasons? |
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