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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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I dislike pills/ medicine of any sort..usually its an expensive waste of money.
If you want to get better, get happy and positive about something..crack a few jokes..have a laugh...sex for one thing is known to boost your immune system pretty well.. also..I've found that seating it out in the gym actually helps.
The basic problem is the air you're breathing in, laden with various chemicals and dust. Smoking doesn't help either. Well, permanent colds are the price Koreans will pay for their advanced industrial development. |
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drcrazy
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Location: Pusan. Yes, that's right. Pusan NOT Busan. I ain't never been to no place called Busan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
I dislike pills/ medicine of any sort..usually its an expensive waste of money.
If you want to get better, get happy and positive about something..crack a few jokes..have a laugh........ |
The best laugh I have had in ages was while reading Kwangjuchickens post on peemil's thread "The Bored Thread".
And I had a stiff neck and my head was killing me. After I read that post, Voila, pain gone.
Thanks chicken. Love and pecks  to you too 
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:00 am Post subject: |
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Haben is a cold med that works pretty well. Doesn't make me drowsy. They have it at all pharmacies. Contac - also available at pharmacies - is good for the nighttime.
Going to the gym, though, while you have a cold isn't a hot idea most of the time. It uses the energy your body needs for fighting the bug. I never train while I'm sick. I've heard of 'sweating it out' in a sauna - can't say it's ever worked for me, but who knows?
If you've got some Vicks or Tiger Balm (the stuff from Thailand/SE Asia) on hand, put a tablespoon in a bowl of steaming water and inhale the vapors. Whooooo...that'll clear up the sinuses with a quickness. |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| as long as you aren't too sick, low intensity cardio is a great way to help get over a cold. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| paperbag princess wrote: |
| as long as you aren't too sick, low intensity cardio is a great way to help get over a cold. |
I try to keep my gym routine through a cold too. The worst of a cold lasts 4 days for me with bed rest or 4 days with normal activity. There's little you can do save for minor things to make the worst symptoms (stuffy noise, cough, sore throat, etc) feel a mite better. I think the only thing they've ever found that actually works against colds is interferon but no one wants to pay $1000 for a course of interferon to shave 2 days off your cold symptoms.
I take two diplomatic views of colds:
1) They're exercise for your immune system.
2) If there's a cold out there and your girlfriend/boyfriend has it, start on a regime of hot sex/making out to get the cold. Because you'll get it anyway. And it's better to have a good memory of how you got the cold than to think you got it when you bent down to help some rug rat trace an apple with a purple crayon and he sneezed in your face because Koreans aren't taught to cover their mouths. |
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