Health Cold and Flu

[neng]

Keep this plague on your side of the country.

Kthanxbai.

 

[crazyman27]

I used to get colds & flu a lot, until I stopped driving & started using public transport. Seems exposing yourself to germs on a daily basis, builds up your immune system.

The principle is sound. To avoid illness, expose yourself to germs, enabling your immune system to develop antibodies. I don't know why everyone doesn't do this. Maybe they have something against living forever.

 

[woopedazz]

People are idiots.

 

[Groupie_]

Thought it was gone and woke up today with heaps of phlegm and coughing.

Fml

 

[Fire Storm]

Dr James Wright takes 2-2.5 grams of Vitamin C every day and hasn't had a cold or the flu in 30 years. Just sayin.

 

[Bazzar]

Dr James Wright takes 2-2.5 grams of Vitamin C every day and hasn't had a cold or the flu in 30 years. Just sayin.

I remember yonks back when he was on the Mike Walsh midday show (or could have been Ray) he gave his hangover recipe, and to this day i still do it when i know a big night on the turps is ahead, and i always wake up feeling great. I always prepare it before i go out and put it on the bedside table, otherwise pissed i forget.

4 Vitamin B tabs
2-3 tablespoons honey. (replaces the glucose you lose when having a slash)
2 panadole
and wash it down with 1 litre of water.

Never fails.

 

[Fire Storm]

Dr James wright, Mike Walsh, Ray Martin,the midday show and a hangover recipe. Ah! The memories!


I'll take Dr Wright over the bondi vet anyway. The man is a genius.

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

Anyone got that bug going around? Got it over the weekend. FFS today has been a friggen nightmare! Blocked nose, runny nose, sore throat full of phlegm. Sore face and bad headaches.

Have been on demazin all day!

That feel when you sniffle for so long it builds up in your throat and wallah - a nice green loogie to cough up. I had this cold for a week now.

It ranks low compared to other shit I've gone through, but still, this feel is not a good feel. I'm just having ginger, green tea, soup etc.

 

[Groupie_]

That feel when you sniffle for so long it builds up in your throat and wallah - a nice green loogie to cough up. I had this cold for a week now.

It ranks low compared to other shit I've gone through, but still, this feel is not a good feel.

2007 I had one of these and did nothing about it. Ended up in hospital with a blood infection

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

2007 I had one of these and did nothing about it. Ended up in hospital with a blood infection

Brb peppering angus.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

I very rarely get sick. Touchwood. Was very worried about getting sick in Y12 though because I would be ****ed then. I think I have been sick once or twice in the last 5 years and they consisted of one day staying home doing nothing

 

[Cruyff14]

I get sick once a year (cold etc), and haven't been sick since June last year. Strong immune system come at me.

 

[PP34]

I normally deal with 3-4 colds a year, with one lasting for about a week.

 

[Makedonija]

I've got a pretty bad cold at the moment. It's in the last stages, but probably had it for 5-6 days now.

I often get sick after exam periods. It's something to do with your stress levels and after the event has occurred, you kind of crash, leaving your immune system weak.

I'm generally not a very superstitious person or anything, but I believe that there is a mental element to getting sick. I try to refrain from ever saying things like, 'I haven't been sick for ages,' because past experience shows that I will get sick over the next few days or week. A lot of this stuff involves the mind, and things like the placebo effect show this.

 

[Papa Juggs]

I had a cold a couple of weeks ago. It comes in from the Northern hemisphere as we go into winter.

I truly believe the common cold wouldn't be so virulent if not for the world network of airplanes. Instead of being isolated and dying off the colds can live forever by being passed between continents.

 

[Roobs321]

Since I left Victoria in mid-09, I haven't really been sick at all. Maybe a 2 day lie low cold every 12 months, and the occasional work week endurance test armed with tissues and throat lozenges, but that's it. I get sniffles and sore throat quite easily, but it's been a very long time since I was sick sick.

I do seem to get hit with December colds more often than not though. Traditionally it was 1st week August.

 

[glendale]

I normally deal with 3-4 colds a year, with one lasting for about a week.

What do you do? me too do experience the same y worst was 2 weeks of colds and flu

 

[BALKAN]

Ever since I started smashing Berocca and putting hydrogen peroxide in my ears at the first sign of a cold, my symptoms have barely ever progressed past a slightly sore throat and sniffles. Do try it.

 

[glendale]

Ever since I started smashing Berocca and putting hydrogen peroxide in my ears at the first sign of a cold, my symptoms have barely ever progressed past a slightly sore throat and sniffles. Do try it.

Is it a food supplement?

 

[UmpiringFooty]

It's the hayfever season. The symptoms are the same as a cold but it's not a cold.

 

[Helicopter Punt]

Colloidal silver FTW
Forget what having a cold feels like.

Cold, flu, sinus, bug, virus and antibiotics free since 2005.

 

[glendale]

It's the hayfever season. The symptoms are the same as a cold but it's not a cold.

what do you do during hay fever season to avoid these allergies?

 

[Doss]

Usually get one cold per year, usually very mild and not enough to keep me off work- I haven't missed a day of work since 2009 through ill health.

I've only ever had proper influenza once, and I was gravely ill indeed. I was 17 at the time and in Year 11, and it put me off school for five weeks. Completely and literally lost my voice for a week- I'd try and speak and nothing would come out. My throat was constantly on fire, not just when I tried to talk or eat. That made sleeping hard enough; the fact that I had vicious headaches and throbbing aches in my muscles combined to make sleeping almost impossible for days on end.

Had to go to hospital for a week too, as my lungs began to fill with fluid (basically, secondary viral pneumonia). I've never been more devoid of energy in my life.

I've often wondered if it was distantly related to those avian flu outbreaks that were occurring in South-East Asia around that time (2005). Probably not though, I hadn't been to that region at that point in my life.

Horrible, horrible memory though.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

Three things which I reckon stop you ever getting sick.

1. Drink a shiteload of water, eat fruit and vegetables and get plenty of sleep, especially when you feel at all under the weather.

2. Steer clear of children. They are little disease factories.

3. Dettol alcohol gel hand sanitizer, in those little 50ml bottles. Small enough to put in a pocket, I make a habit of taking one of these with me everywhere, and squirting some into my hands whenever I'm about to eat or drink or whenever I spend time in a public place. Sounds manic but it works. Can also disinfect cuts or start fires if need be, cleans basically any stain from anything, and doubles as a rather nasty mouthwash if you spend a big night out and end up somewhere odd.

 

[Kram]

After generally getting a cold a couple of times a year when younger haven't had one since getting a flat out flu almost a decade ago. In bed for a week and generally unwell for a fortnight, pure hell..

Not so much your general health but getting sick I think comes down to who you have contact with, haven't been ill since going to school or college regularly and rarely work in close contact to a large amounts of people.