Share your protocol for having a cold

[Catholic_Lady]

I've been meaning to try some Echinacea for this...

[Jackalope]

I infect as many people as humanly possible.

[Joods]

I infect as many people as humanly possible.

You're my hero. 

[Jackalope]

There was a time when I managed to infect everyone in attendance at two family Thanksgiving dinners on consecutive days. With the Norovirus.

A fun weekend was had by all.

I really do feel bad about it.

Pro-tip:. Norovirus is still contagious after you're no longer symptomatic.

[Anomalocaris]

Here's mine.

Natural, healthy things to do:

1. Start taking zicam immediately, continue every 3 hours throughout the cold.

2. Start taking a multivitamin immediately with plenty of antioxidants and B vitamins, if you didn't already do so.

3. Thoroughly Brush your teeth 3-4 times a day and use mouthwash. (Oral health effects overall health, so keep that mouth clean when sick)

4. Drink lots and lots of water. Not soda, not sugary fruit juices. Unsweetened Pedialite if you have diarrhea. No gatorade.

5. Eat well and balanced, even if not hungry. Preferably at least one serving of garlicky anti inflammatory soup per day. A little spicy if no sore throat, to help drain sinuses.

6. Take it slow for the day, don't overwork yourself. And keep warm.

7. If it's warm outside, open your windows and let the fresh air flow through. Lay out in the sun for a while. Vitamin D, biotches!

8. Use netipot or nasal irrigator once a day with distilled water to flush out the sinuses.

9. Use nasal saline spray throughout the day as needed.

10. Take hot showers as needed to help soften and drain mucus.

11. Use a humidifier.

12. Drink Throat Coat tea (from traditional medicinals) if experiencing dry throat.

Meanwhile, here are the best medicines to take, imho:

1. Upon waiking up, take 2 doses of Mucinex D 12 hour relief to combat mucus and congestion simultaneously. You'll need to get it behind the counter and show your ID because it contains real sudafed (pseudophoedrine), not the fake shit that doesnt work. Always take pseudophedrine sudafed. Do not take later on because it keeps you awake.

2. For headache or sore throat, take 800mg of ibuprofen (usually 4 pills), and 1000mg of Tylenol (usually 2 extra strength pills). Take them together. The 2 different pain meds work differently for maximum pain relief. Do this up to twice daily.

3. For cough, Tessalon works great, but you need a prescription. Rubitussin doesn't do shit.

4. Before bed time, use Afrin for decongestion so you can sleep well.

5. Cepacol Sore Throat lozenges work better than any other. Take as needed.

...So there's my protocol. Share yours if you have one. Also, I'm sick if you can't tell lol.

If you have checklist that long for a cold, what do you do if, heaven forbid, you are struck down with a serious illness?

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I infect as many people as humanly possible.

If a leather epidemic were to break out, I would kill you just out of caution.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I generally eat a tin of tainted sardines, washed down with a glass of minced onions and lemon juice. Then I'm so busy projectile vomiting, I forget I even have a cold.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Taking Chimp3's advice, when I went to the local grocery store and looked at all the types of Robitussin they had in stock. I photographed the labels of all the variations that didn't have both Guaifenisen and Dextromethorphan. Guess what I noticed:







That's right: as the official website indicated, the ones that didn't include both always included just Dextromethorphan (and maybe some other additional medicines), but not one included just Guaifenisen; it was only the Mucinex that did.

That said, I can see where Chimp would come to the conclusion; looking it up, there are some brands of tussin that use Guaifenisen exclusively and it's possible that at some point, the official Robitussin brand did; I found this vintage Robitussin ad, and while the quality is too crappy to be certain, I'd be lying if I said it doesn't possibly look like "Guaifenisen" is on that plain tussin bottle on the far left (it could be Dextromethorphan, too; the photo quality is really crap.)



Of course, that ad was from 1988, the year before I was born, so if they did do a Guanifenisen-only Robitussin back then, it doesn't change the fact that they don't do it now.

So, if you want to blame someone for fucking up the order, don't blame me. You can probably blame Pfizer for changing the damn formula.

[Catholic_Lady]

So I was right. Take that, Chimp face!