How do you head off a chest cold before it brings you down?

[LibraLiz1973]

Old wives tale cures??

Things you do to head it off?


I can feel it coming and I don't want this at all

SHARE!!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. Zinc, Echinacia(sp?) and Vitamin C.

[LibraLiz1973]

2. I am doing 1 of the three

I started guzzling my Emergen-C packets.

But I need to go get Zinc & Ecky ASAP

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. I hope you feel better!!

[Redstone]

3. Get a 12-ounce water glass. Fill it half full of Jack Daniel's,

and the other half with orange juice. Drink.

The OJ will give you the vitamin C you need, and the JD will knock you out so you get the sleep you need.

Sleep is the great healer.

Redstone

[gemdem]

4. Sounds like a plan

That should be followed daily. Never know when a cold might be coming on! ;-)

[Redstone]

8. You betcha. Preventative medicine.

Redstone

[trackfan]

5. For a cold, blackberry brandy. For flu Slivovitz.

That's about all the folk cures I have.

[blonndee]

6. Theraflu!!

Anytime I even think I'm getting sick I take Theraflu (the kind you make a hot drink with). It doesn't ALWAYS completely stop it but it does always make me feel better. And I hate taking medicine, but I never don't have some Theraflu (nighttime) in my medicine cabinet.

[struggle4progress]

9. Hot liquids and plenty of sleep. (1) Hot soup. (2) Long hot bath ..

with a big mug of hot peppermint tea. (3) More hot herbal tea after the bath. (4) Early to bed, with enough blankets and the heat cranked up.

[XemaSab]

10. Go to the grocery store

and get 4 gallons of OJ.

Drink the first one... don't chug, just always have a glass in your hand.

Rinse... repeat.

[AngryAmish]

11. Put on a lot of clothes

Then go to bed with lots of blankets.

Try to sweat it out. Raise your temperature, kill the virus.

Give it a shot.

[grasswire]

12. AIRBORNE

I thought everyone knew by now. Amazing stuff. And the new pink grapefruit flavor is pretty tasty.

[stuntcat]

13. yah, and Emergen-C

I stopped a cold from getting me once, I took a bunch of both for a couple days