The omnipresent bug....

[Big_Saw]

I am telling you. Kefir is the way to go. You grow so many good bugs in your body that the bad stuff cannot grow.

I'll check into it next time....;)

[Rustyshakelford]

I am telling you. Kefir is the way to go. You grow so many good bugs in your body that the bad stuff cannot grow.

[Ragnar Redbeard]

Here is my -.2 cents worth of advice. After I was released from my hospital stay from a respiratory illness, (totally recovered with no lasting effects). I was terrified of catching a cold, to the point of being neurotic about it. I have always caught colds and always had the flu, every year with out fail.

I used every over the counter product that I could get to prevent any illness but I still caught colds and the flu. I read and article on how the majority of colds/flu were caught. It was by contact. Being too close to sick people, you know the ones who cough and hack and snot all over themselves, the other was by coming in contact with contaminated surfaces from the very people that I just mentioned. Then you rub your eyes, pick your nose or clean your teeth with a finger nail (hopefully yours) and now you have the illness.

I wondered just how many times had I touched my face, so I started to pay close attention to my digital mannerisms. I was aghast at how many times I touched alien surfaces and then touched my face. The surfaces that I had contacted were simple everyday items such as restaurant table tops, grocery store buggies, door knobs, basically the surfaces that had been touched a zillion times by a zillion people, and odds are a lot of them were sick.

I took a friend to lunch as normal but this time it was an experiment. It was an outside patio type bar/restaurant. As we talked, I watched as my friend touched the table top (the very table top that was haphazardly wiped down by an old bar rag which had wiped down probably 20 other tables) continuously, salt and pepper shakers (you laugh? How many times do you think people sneeze in their hand and then pick up the shakers..alot! But that is another story)…anyway, I mentally counted over 40 instances where he touched his hands to his face. At one point I literally gasped out loud as he sucked off the BBQ sauce off each of his fingers. As we talked he picked a piece of BBQ out of his teeth and I had enough, I “fessed” up. I told him of my little experiment and that he was the lab rat, at first he called me retarded, nothing new there, then he thought about what I told him.

At that point we both made a very serious attempt to be aware of our contact of foreign surfaces. Neither he nor I have been sick since. That’s a year and a half.
Restaurant bathrooms for instance, how many of you wash your hands and then turn off the water with you’re just washed cleansed hand? Bathroom sink faucets are loaded with bad germs, by touching it again, you have just re contaminated your hands. Now you dry your hands by touching the paper towels handle crank (which is dirty) and then you open the bathroom door by grasping the handle/doorknob which used by people who don’t even wash their hands at all.
You get the picture.
Of course there are many ways around all the germs and touching surfaces, ya just got to get creative.

It takes a little time and effort to retrain your digital contact SOP and I know it sounds kinda anal but it will pay off. It certainly has for me.

I have to admit Zycam did work well for me and I certainly agree worth you on not getting a vacination.

[Big_Saw]

I ended up taking Rush Limbaugh's advice (something I rarely do), and getting some Zycam nasal swabs....worked like a charm, and it's homeopathic....but I doubt it will be available in a post-SHTF scenario, unless you've stocked up...until then, though, I can attest to it's place in my medicine cabinet......:D

[Brosia]

I can tell you for a fact that ginger ale and saltines didn't do squat for me when I had it back in November. So much for that old wives' tale.

good luck to ya, and feel better soon

[Rustyshakelford]

Since I am currently overcoming my latest battle w/the flu...I gotta wonder if anyone has heard of, or come up with a homeopathic remedy for "the bug"......I don't mean something your gramma dreamed up with her bridge and bourbon social club, or the latest bullsh*t remedy to come from the Rigelean Newsletter...

FYI....I don't go in w/the whole vaccination scene...IMHO, it's just another way to weaken your body's natural effectiveness against illnesses, and make you dependent on commercial gimmicks for your well-being.....call me crazy...it hasn't killed me yet...just made me miserable....but I'd be willing to bet that I'm tougher against the flu than most who've been getting the shot all their lives....

Sulphur, a little drink called Kefir (a fermented milk product containing lots of "good" bugs) and an unfiltered unpasteurized beer. Gives you bugs and enzymes to kill off the bad stuff.

[Big_Saw]

Since I am currently overcoming my latest battle w/the flu...I gotta wonder if anyone has heard of, or come up with a homeopathic remedy for "the bug"......I don't mean something your gramma dreamed up with her bridge and bourbon social club, or the latest bullsh*t remedy to come from the Rigelean Newsletter...

FYI....I don't go in w/the whole vaccination scene...IMHO, it's just another way to weaken your body's natural effectiveness against illnesses, and make you dependent on commercial gimmicks for your well-being.....call me crazy...it hasn't killed me yet...just made me miserable....but I'd be willing to bet that I'm tougher against the flu than most who've been getting the shot all their lives....