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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 7:58:45 PM

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I hope you feel better soon. It is a bummer being sick.

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 9:49:32 PM

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**sends healing thoughts and wishes your way**

The chicken soup and hot toddy sound good. *smiles* Drink at least 8 oz of (non caffeine, non alcohol) fluid every hour that you are awake. Warm fluids like soup or hot tea will thin the mucus that tickles the back of your throat and help dampen the cough.

Putting several drops of warm saline water (1/4 tsp of salt in 8 oz of water, then letting some dribble down each nostril) really DOES help clear your nose. All the doctors recommend it. I hate doing it, because it tastes icky when it drains down the back of your throat, but since it does help, I do it anyway.

Those BreatheRight nose strips help me ALOT when my nose is stuffy. I hate trying to sleep with a stuffy nose. Decongestant nasal sprays, like Afrin, will immediately open your nose for hours, but only use if you absolutely can't sleep, because after several uses, you get a "rebound" effect..ie, the WORST stuffy nose of your life, until the rebound wears off.

I hope you get to feeling much better, very quickly.

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 9:57:53 PM

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A cold? It may help if you pour (soapy) water at a pleasant temperature into your nose and rinse the interior - frequently. The water will carry off the virusses and mucus and the soap will kill them.

I use a thing called a Jal-Neti or a Neti pot to pour things into my nose. It is from Yogic traditions. What I put in it is warm water with salt (binding agent for the oils) and Eucalyptus and Tea Tree essential oils (not too much) and pour that sucker into my sinuses in the shower. It was really unpleasant when I started doing it, but my lifelong sinus allergies and post nasal drip disappeared forever within 2 weeks of doing this.

Good luck with that.

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 9:59:28 PM

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My toddy recipe is
Jigger of brandy
Warm water
Jigger of lemon juice
Teaspoon of honey.

Drink that, asleep in 12 minutes.

Alcohol, in small amounts, boosts immune response 1000-1000 times according to my MD/PhD In Immunology buddy.

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 10:08:03 PM

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Have you broke out the hot mustand, horseradish and garlic?
How about a hot toddy?

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 10:17:46 PM

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My sister gave me a killer flu, i've been in and out of NyQuil consciousness all weekend so I sympathize :)

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 10:18:44 PM

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Have you broke out the hot mustand, horseradish and garlic?
How about a hot toddy?

PARTY AT VENDAVAL'S, IM BRINGING THE BRANDY, LEMON, TEA TREE OIL, AND POT TO POUR THINGS IN YOUR NOSE!

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RE: i am sick - 9/30/2007 11:34:16 PM

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thank you you made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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