Cure for the Common Cold?
Sorry I haven’t posted much this week. I’ve been busy with other things that the blogosphere needn’t know about.
We all feel a bit drained, and it feels as though we have some colds coming on. The little dude definitely has the sniffles. My poor guy was up quite a bit last night which means I was up quite a bit last night.
Short of downing Cold Snap ever twenty minutes (which works really, really well!) we’re not sure what else to do except nurse ourselves to health this weekend. Getting the little dude to take Cold Snap is a little difficult, but he likes it mixed in with his nightly tea.
So, what’s your cure for the common cold or for general malaise?
September 15th, 2007 at 5:58 am
I hope you are feeling better very soon
It is sooo hard being sick AND caring for a little one.
My best cure is to juice apples, garlic and ginger right when I notice the first symptoms. I use a lot of garlic and ginger and enough apples to make it tolerable. This usually does the trick.
The other thing I swear by is a probiotic superfood supplement called inLiven (https://radiantorganics.mionegroup.com/product/15101). My health has improved so much since I started taking this. And my kids are rarely sick (they drink it in a morning smoothie).
September 15th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I think we have colds coming on in our house also. It is getting to be that season…
I use Airborne, but I’m not convinced it does anything. I am going to try Cold Snap.
When we have colds, I always make my recipe for chicken-spinach-noodle soup and drink lots of tea or hot apple cider.
September 15th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I have a “regime” that I use as soon as I feel the first tickle in my throat:
1) Cold Calm - you might want to try this with your little one (if it’s ok for tykes, not certain). These tablets dissolve in your mouth and have a very slight taste of sugar. He’ll probably take them more easily than the CS capsules.
2) Virobiotic - this is a tincture made by a local herbalist, Hummingbird Herbals. I SWEAR by this one. It has osha, echinacea, oregon grape, licorice, vervain, and baptisia. Tastes NASTY, but works like a charm.
3) Emergen-C Immune Defense (packed with vitamins and minerals)
4) Herbal Honey Loquat Flavored Sore Throat Syrup - I use this when I have a sore throat. A friend of mine recommended this to me a couple of years ago and I always make certain I have some on hand. I get mine at the Asian food market. It thickly coats the throat so the tickle goes away. ONE CAUTION: swallow the entire spoonful, as it’s really thick and is harder to swallow once it gets warm in the mouth.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
It depends if you are talking about me or Mikayla. For me if it is really bad - cannot breath, headache, body ache I go for the Dayquill - as bad as I know it is for me it works - on the good side I only take half of the recommended dose. But it has to be a bad cold - if it is normally I just suffer through it - especially since I am pregnant right now and I just got over my cold. I hope I did not give it to your little one - but the seasons are chagning.
If Mikayla is sick - which is not often all at - normally she brings whatever she would get home from daycare and give it straight to me! The only time I have given her infant Benydrol or Infant Tylenol is if she has a horrid runny nose, runny eyes and just seems miserable or if she has a high fever - otherwise she can deal with it as well.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
We start with a max dose of echinacea as soon as symptoms arise, and I keep my homeopathy kit handy and address additional symptoms as they come up: aconite for fevers where you have the chills, your pulse is up and you can feel it pounding in your body and kali bichromicum for sinus crap are two remedies that come up regularly in this household. While in Germany we discovered Esberitox, which is a combination herbal immune-stimulating drug. And now it’s available in the US! Whoopee!
Otherwise… we wrap our necks to keep the glands warm and functioning well, drink a lot of water, tea and dilute juices, sleep a lot, sit around and frequently break our screen-time rule and allow for some electronically-induced zoning out.