I stumbled on this article in the Parade magazine and was shocked.
Millions of dollars are spent on a very scientific research. By very scientific people. Like this one.
Dr. Birgit Winther, an otolaryngologist and part of a cold-research team at the University of Virginia, is one of the top experts on the subject. For 30 years, this tidy, petite scientist has studied the untidy subject of sneezes, coughs, and runny noses. She’s the kind of fearless researcher who weighs dirty tissues, harvests mucus from swollen nostrils, and smears it on phones and light switches.
She suggest a few “simple” remedies. Dr. Winther calls drugs “simple remedies”!
“Treat the individual symptoms that bother you most,” Winther advises. Her step-by-step plan: At the first sign of symptoms, take ibuprofen to ease sore throat, headache, and malaise. If a stuffy nose is a problem, add an OTC nasal spray. For a runny nose, use a prescription spray (especially useful if you must be around people the first three days of a cold, the most contagious time). Old-style antihistamines, such as Benadryl or Chlor-Trimeton, can also alleviate congestion and sneezes but may make you drowsy
Great!
Meanwhile the distinguished learned doctors are forgetting about very simple way to prevent cold and to get rid of cold quickly. My grandmother taught me a few tricks.
Like dress warm when it is cold outside! Like several layers of clothes, warm socks and shoes. Don’t forget the gloves. Put the heat on.
Don’t drink cold drinks. Forget the ice cream!
My own advise: stay fit and healthy. Then your immune system will do the job.
But if you get the cold forget the pills!
Hot tea with lemon and honey tastes better than ibuprofen that ruins your liver!
And chicken soup is much better for you and more pleasant than nasal spray.
“For a runny nose, use a prescription spray”
Prescription spray? Why don’t you use the spray, doctor and I will get by with facial tissue for a day or two!
“Old-style antihistamines, such as Benadryl or Chlor-Trimeton, can also alleviate congestion and sneezes but may make you drowsy”
I honestly would prefer to get drowsy with the help of some good Bourbon!
“Whatever you do, Winther cautions, do not take antibiotics. They kill bacteria, not viruses. Doctors prescribe them more than 40 million times a year, which has led to more lethal, drug-resistant strains of bacteria.”
A agree about the antibiotics
And finally my advise: go to this site and thousands of other sites to get some GOOD advise.
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/cold-remedies
Just use common sense and forget the drugs!
And forget Dr. Birgit Winther!

February 9, 2011 















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