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    Default The Common Cold

    I'm starting to get a cold does anyone have any good family secrets or anything like that to keep the cold away?

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    Soup

    Or, y'know, get off the internet and get some rest.

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    Odd...I just got over a cold....

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    Drink an entire bottle of NyQuil and when you wake up the week after falling asleep, you'll feel fine. ^_^

    (this is a terrible idea, please don't overdose)

    Honestly, I just hop myself up on decongestants and muscle through it.

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    Vitamin C will help.

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    Chewable orange flavoured vitamin C tablets are now your candy. Gorge on them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jowy View Post
    Drink an entire bottle of NyQuil and when you wake up the week after falling asleep, you'll feel fine. ^_^

    (this is a terrible idea, please don't overdose)

    Honestly, I just hop myself up on decongestants and muscle through it.
    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill View Post
    Soup

    Or, y'know, get off the internet and get some rest.


    My usuall plan once I get it...

    But I'm asking does anyone have a way to stop the cold from starting that's a family kind of thing, like how my Grandmother always used to tell me...

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    Eat lots of tomatoes!
    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Chewable orange flavoured vitamin C tablets are now your candy. Gorge on them.
    Sounds disgusting.... I can I have orange juice instead?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboco View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Chewable orange flavoured vitamin C tablets are now your candy. Gorge on them.
    Sounds disgusting.... I can I have orange juice instead?
    Yes, but those chewables usually taste like candy, especially the old-school Flintstones ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboco View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Chewable orange flavoured vitamin C tablets are now your candy. Gorge on them.
    Sounds disgusting.... I can I have orange juice instead?
    They aren't disgusting, I assure you. Or at least the ones I had last winter weren't. But hey, orange juice works too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tavrobel View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Goldenboco View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Chewable orange flavoured vitamin C tablets are now your candy. Gorge on them.
    Sounds disgusting.... I can I have orange juice instead?
    Yes, but those chewables usually taste like candy, especially the old-school Flintstones ones.
    I looked through my new Flintstone Chewables and ORANGE IS GONE. ;________; I dunno if its because I got the special iron one because now that I'm not eating meat anymore, I need iron, but the oranges were like candy. Maybe they took them out because they were TOO good.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Anaisa View Post
    Vitamin C
    or live in a bubble.



    4444444444 4 4 444 44 4

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faris View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Anaisa View Post
    Vitamin C
    or live in a bubble.
    Bubble Boy!


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    I usually take Motrin and sometimes some Tylenol.

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    your body can't absorb more than 1000 mg of vitamin c in a day...so two of those tablets are pretty much where it ends....and by the time the elevated C content in your body begins to actually strengthen your immune system, the cold is probably gone anyway...

    but placebos rule anyway!! eat the things and drink sunny D till you get better

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    Orange juice works. It's preferred if it's 100% natural so you get all the vitamin C. Or even better eat an orange. Not only do you get a good supply of vitamin C but you'll also get some fibre out of it.

    If you want to make sure you don't get a stuffy nose avoid facing down because that makes your mucus rush towards your nose.

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