I took my husband to the doctor the other day and now...

[Haole Girl]

I am getting sick! I hate colds, and I feel like I've caught the sore throat, ear ache, runny nose crap.

Besides drinking juices and resting all day, and planning to turn in early, I wonder if I should take some Airborne stuff I have..?

Does anybody know if that would just be too much Vitamin C ?

[KitchenWitch]

1. It is difficult to OD on Vitamin C

What your body does not use will be pee'd out.

[Haole Girl]

2. Thanks...that's what I've heard...but after 5 little boxes of

grape juice, I wanted another opinion!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear KC2!

KitchenWitch is absolutely correct!

You WILL have the most acidic urine in town!

Hope you feel better quickly.......:hug:

[Haole Girl]

5. Thanks...I'm sure I will

Colds don't really keep me down for long, but they are such a nuisance.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. You can't take too much Vitamin C.

You'll just pee the extra out. If you're super-sensitive to it, it may upset you're stomach a bit, but that's it. When I'm getting sick, I take Source Naturals Wellness which (among other stuff) has 1.3 grams of Vitamin C. And I take the recommendation of taking it every three hours.

[Haole Girl]

6. Thanks, too

I'm drinking my Airborne now...I like the lemon-lime flavor the best. I swear by the stuff. When I use it when I travel, I never catch the creepy stuff anymore. Before I discovered it, I used to catch something or the other about half of the time I flew long haul flights.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Ugh...the worst was my flight to London.

I had been really sick up until the day before (enough to not be sure if I was gonna make it to London). Knocked it all out of me with Wellness, Host Defense, and oscilliocossium. Got on the plane and (I'm already a germophobe) had a child with bubonic plague sitting across the aisle from me. It's the first time I've taken benzos because I actually needed them for anxiety. Somehow, I avoided getting sick again.

[Haole Girl]

8. lol

:rofl:

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Go for the Airborne, and use Zicam swabs!

Just did that and was over the cold in less than 5 days.


And you know you've taken too much C when you get the runs. Be sure to drink a lot of water...C can be hard on the kidneys.

Feel better quick :hug:

[Haole Girl]

10. Thanks

I'm going to bed now. G'Night!

[Floogeldy]

11. Be sure to wash your hands after touching public things.

And don't touch your face, lips, tongue, nose or eyes unless you have thoroughly washed your hands with anti-bacterial soap.

[u4ic]

12. Too much vit C

will give you the runs.

And not from your nose. ;-)

Hope you feel better soon! :hi:

[DawgHouse]

13. blech! I hate going to the doctor's office.

What's with all those sick folks there? :)

[SoCalDemGrrl]

14. My Doc says to take a pkg of Emergen C every hour at the 1st sign of cold

You'll know it's too much for your system if you get the runs, then he said back off a little bit.

It's worked for me the last 2 x I felt a cold coming on.

Hope you feel better soon....

(BTW my doc is a naturopathic doctor)

[Haole Girl]

15. UPDATE:

I think I kicked the cold. My nose isn't running today. It seems drinking a gallon of grape juice, followed by great vibes by the DU Loungers and Airborne did the trick! Oh, and, before I went to bed last night I took a tea spoon of some left over prescription cough syrup (I think that's what helped dry me up).

Thanks for all the good wishes!

[Canadian Socialist]

16. I highly recommend Cold FX

http://www.cold-fx.com/us/index.html

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012713

If Margaret Atwood & Don Cherry think it works, that's good enough for me. heee.

[grasswire]

17. airborne is fabulous

I know someone whose warts went away when he took Airborne for a week. Seriously. He had half a dozen warts that had been on his hands for years. All of a sudden they spontaneously disappeared over a couple of weeks. Now, that's an immune booster!

[grasswire]

18. oh, and now they have a pink grapefruit flavor...

...that is mighty tasty.