snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
I keep getting colds
- Thread starter Toeclip
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Philistine! There's a story that Laphroaig was sold to America during prohibition as antiseptic. I've always thought it smells very like TCP. I'm still happy to persevere with it nevertheless.It's every malt that came out of Islay IMO
Globalti
Legendary Member
Get out of the habit of rubbing your eyes and touching your nose; that is how the viruses get into your upper-respiratory tract. Wash hands as soon as you return home so as to reduce the numbers of viruses on surfaces around the house. Take zinc tablets and gargle twice or thrice daily with Corsodyl if you have a sore throat. Vicks First Defence works too, it is based on sound principles.
I do all this and haven't had a cold for a year. Have fought off a couple of sore throats without them developing into colds too.
I do all this and haven't had a cold for a year. Have fought off a couple of sore throats without them developing into colds too.
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Thats something I fell foul of years ago when I was younger, more serious and more enthusiastic, I would train for the spring reliability trials during the winter and find there was a period just before I hit peak fitness where I seemed more vulnerable to infection, I missed two or three events due to illness a couple of weeks before the day I was due to ride them.
Doctor`s yesterday for blood test results, got myself some high cholesterol so more tablets to take! Doc couldn`t help me with my colds just said they same as everybody else keep washing hands and keep away from those that have colds. Anyway I`ve only had one cold this year and it started today oh well that`s life.
Biker Joe
Über Member
- Location
- Nr Harlow, Essex.
Why's that then?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I used to fly to Spain every March to do 2 week road training camps in the sunshine. Sometimes I'd go, not having ridden even 100 miles since Christmas. I'd do 700+ quick, hilly miles out there, wear myself out and catch a cold as soon as I came home. I'd have another week or two off the bike, then start riding again and by May I'd be feeling pretty fit!
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I really don't know why, but over the last few years while I've been having an anti-flu jab each autumn, I've had very few colds. I wonder whether the jab gives me a degree of protection from minor viruses so colds can't take advantage of a lower resistance.
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Sounds like you were doing the same as I used to do, over training, when I was younger I hadn't fully got my head around how important rest is as a part of trying to get fitter.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
garlic purifies your blood
honey has all the vitamins one needs
onions - I forgot what it does but supposed to be good as well.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The organisers used to warn us against it on the first day of each camp, but it was so great to be cycling in warm/hot conditions under blue skies that I always overdid things. One year, I actually got ill during the holiday and had to stay off the bike for a couple of days. Two days of rest, sunbathing and eating lots of fruit (for the vitamin c) did the trick. I was amazed at how much quicker I got well again out there - it would probably have taken me at least 4 or 5 days in the UK in cold, damp March.
