Posted by: lastdan
way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 16/09/2004 17:29
so is it:
feed a cold and starve a fever? or the other way around?
anyone care to share their favorite cure for the common head cold?
no rain for months, 70 to 80f most days, and I get hit with a cold. go figure.
Posted by: cushman
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 16/09/2004 17:34
Jasmine Tea and spicy asian food. Especially soups or Phad Thai. The spices really clear up my head, but it won't cure it. You just have to let it run it's course.
Posted by: andym
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 16/09/2004 18:30
So your answer is to work from home every day? Sounds good to me!
Posted by: tfabris
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 16/09/2004 18:37
Doesn't necessarily help if you've got offspring. They're little cold-spreading machines, and public schools are like virus exchange banks...
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 16/09/2004 18:38
I was wondering why there was such a short supply of duct tape and plastic sheeting recently...
Posted by: tanstaafl.
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 17/09/2004 03:24
no rain for months, 70 to 80f most days, and I get hit with a cold. go figure
Exposure to inclement weather or chilly conditions has nothing to do with whether you catch a cold. (Well, maybe very indirectly: if you were exposed long enough perhaps your body might deteriorate to the point where your immune system was compromised, but this is very unlikely.)
The only way you can catch a cold is to be exposed to the virus.
You could go out and play all day in the snow in your underwear until you were half dead from hypothermia, and you would not catch cold unless you were exposed to the virus.
tanstaafl.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 17/09/2004 04:15
Of course, cold and/or nasty weather makes people crush indoors together more than on nice days, so there's a greater chance of coming in contact with someone who has a cold, simply because you're more likely to come in contact with more people. Also, children are not all jammed together in school during the summer to breed viruses for us.
Posted by: frog51
Re: way off topic......and a little early for the season. - 17/09/2004 05:48
On the upside, the little plague vectors do raise your immune system - now my two are 4 and 2, I find I get ill far less often than the folks at work without kids.
Of course, this may mean I am immune enough to just be a carrier (Mwahahaha)