Anecdotal Evidence: Cold/Flu remedies
All three of my boys are back at work, school and daycare this week after the flu visited each of them over the past 2 weeks. Thus far, I didn’t get the flu, though I did get a small cold that passed quickly. The flu incubation period is 5 to 8 days, so I’m not out of the woods yet, but if I am, I credit these three practices for it, along with the lightness and short duration of the cold last week:
Neti pot, rinsing with warm salt water once or twice a day.
Vitamin D, at least 1000 mgs, up to 3000.
Rest. When I felt tired and could, I laid down to nap, and I went to bed early, sometimes when the kids did, for 9 or 10 hours of sleep.
In addition, I’ve been washing hands and using hand sanitizer, taking an Emergen-C packet every day, trying to keep fluids up, taking Sambucol (an elderberry syrup), and Sinucheck. There are many reasons I may have avoided the flu and only had a mild cold. Given I’d been caring for three coughing, very sick guys for two weeks, though, I think my exemption probably was due to the preventive measures, and the neti pot, vit. D and rest seemed to make the biggest difference in my overall well being.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Well done, my niece. Heaven knows, the caretaker can never get sick. I can hardly remember a time when your grandmother was down for the count in our childhood. Don’t know how she did it. You made a nice choice of prophys — hope they stand you in good stead for the next few days. XO