How to fight off a cold.

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Much prefer the hot toddy treatment (preferably a double) with 2 paracetamol. guarantees a good nights sleep.

 

[welsh dragon]

MR D swears by southern comfort. Lots of it and then going to bed and sweating the cold out. (It doesn't work) but at least it keeps him quiet for a while

 

[Jason.T]

Some of the older generation around here (I'm talking the hard core old fashion farmer type, the ones who believe that if you don't work 20 hours a day until your hands are bleeding with only 4 hours sleep then you haven't done a days graft)......use detol by rubbing it on their lips hands and under their nose, I honestly don't know a farmer around here.....and I know a lot of them that's ever had a cold

 

[Sham69]

Maybe catching the common cold is a necessary part of life - it gives our immune system a workout and keeps it healthy. As we grow older, our colds are generally milder and less frequent because our immune system has grown stronger for being constantly challenged over the years by our most common contagious disease.

Let's face it, if it wasn't for the common cold, our immune system wouldn't get a workout.

 

[Globalti]

Only read half of the op before going ...
Blokes and their flu
Haven't had a cold or similar since starting cycle commuting in all weathers, getting rained on daily.
Go figure!

Nobody said anything about 'flu! So many people say "I've got 'flu" when all they've got is a cold. I had genuine 'flu once in my life and stayed in bed for five days and felt as weak as a kitten for a couple of weeks after that. A cold is not the same thing but I dread getting one especially before an overseas trip because my eustachian tubes get blocked and I'm in absolute agony when the 'plane descends to land, yawning and gurning like an idiot trying to equalise the pressure in my ears. Not to mention trying to perform in five or six presentations a day and keeping fresh and alert. Nightmare.

(Posting with no cold thanks to my treatment, from my hotel room in Jo'burg after four flights and three countries this week.)

 

[buggi]

i normally find i only get a cold if I'm either forced, for some reason, to keep off the bike, or going on annual leave. I think cyclists in general get less colds and flu. I personally think this is bcoz our germs are trapped in snot and end up in the road (i know you do it!). The natural movement of the human body gets rid of crap off the chest (this is why paralysed people get chest infections a lot coz they don't get rid of any and so it stands to reason that cyclists produce a lot of stuff that's get ejected into the road).
having used First Defence a couple of times i can honestly say i think it does work. And this is the second time this week I've heard of using zinc.
it also stands to reason that colds are psychological bcoz they only happen to active cyclists when they are due annual leave, which is why I've been up all night and will be going to the health shop later. Injury forced me off the bike last winter which resulted in a cold which turned into 2 consecutive chest infections followed by bronchitis, the worst month of my life in recent memory. I don't need that on the first proper block booking of annual leave I've had in 3 years.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

My flu-avoidance strategy is to out-ride it . Beats the hell out of taking the Flu Express***. When I must sit at work surrounded by my overweight, unfit, non-cycling colleagues, I tactfully avoid breathing anywhere near them .

*** aka train/tram/PT.

 

[HorTs]

I heard good things about pineapple and pineapple juice with regards to colds.