Colds

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Cold Remedies & Lozenges If you use ROBITUSSIN, NYQUIL or HALLS LOZENGES - Instead try ZINC LOZENGES, VITAMIN C, N-ACEYTL-CYSTEINE and/or WILLOW BARK. Robitussin, NyQuil, and Halls cough drops and lozenges are very popular OTC drugs. But all they all they do, at best, is relieve cold symptoms temporarily. You

can do more than that with vitamins, minerals and herbs. If you feel a cold coming on, act fast: Pick up some ZINC LOZENGES at a health food store, and suck on one every two waking hours. According to research Cleveland Clinic, doing so greatly relieves cold symptoms and cuts the length of a cold by almost half, from about 7.6 to 4.4 days. The lozenges are much more effective when taken at the start of a cold rather than after you’re very sick. Stop taking them when you have recovered. High does of VITAMIN C –2 to 6 gm daily – can also ease cold symptoms. Divide the dose so you take the vitamin several times during the day and follow the "bowel tolerance" concept. If you start to develop diarrhea, reduce your dose slightly. According to Carthcart, M.D., of Los Altos, Calif., the amounts just below what causes loose stools

is your ideal does. High doses of N-ACETYLCYSTEINE, a form of the amino acid cysteine, also relieves cold and flu symptoms – and can even bolster the immune system against AIDS. Try 1,000 to 2,000 mg. daily. Some people use Willow Bark as an aspirin substitute. The bark contains the same active ingredient. Don't forget Complete tonic, echinacea and astralagus!! Suzi List Owner health/ http://360./suziesgoats What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

[Guest guest]

Airborne works well too. Vitamin C, zinc and a bunch of other immune boosters.

Gayla Always Enough RanchAcampo, Californiaaeranch@...

Colds

Cold Remedies & Lozenges

If you use ROBITUSSIN, NYQUIL or HALLS LOZENGES - Instead try ZINC LOZENGES, VITAMIN C, N-ACEYTL-CYSTEINE and/or WILLOW BARK.

[Guest guest]

I am on Sprycel.

What is a Plural Efusion?

[ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

I had fluid build up in my lungs and they had to drain it. Very painful!!!!

for me at least. But they took me off Sprycel as that is a side effect. so

if you get shortness of breath or a bad cough--go and get a chest Xray.

Sharon

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From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Neal

Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:10 PM

Subject: RE: [ ] Colds

I am on Sprycel.

What is a Plural Efusion?

[ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

Tasigna here. colds are far and few between and don't seem to last. <<Knock

on wood!>> J

Tammy

From: Neal [mailto:nwatson@...]

Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:43 PM

Subject: [ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

My mother has had a cold for about a week now. She is doing better but I can

still tell she is congested and still has a mild cough.

She was placed on an antibiotic prophylactically as soon as she caught it. She

is on gleevec 400mg dly x 4 months.

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From: Tammy Ferns <tammy@...>

Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 3:53:53 PM

Subject: RE: [ ] Colds

 

Tasigna here. colds are far and few between and don't seem to last. <<Knock

on wood!>> J

Tammy

From: Neal [mailto:nwatson@...]

Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:43 PM

Subject: [ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

Hi Karine,

Unless your Mom has some underlying reason to be given antibiotics without a

known infection, I would seriously question the doctor why they were prescribed

and ask if they interact with Gleevec.

Most antibiotics come with serious risks but if there is a known infection or

very high risk for one then those risks can be justified. If on the other hand,

no infection exists, I think you would be hard pressed to find a competent

doctor who would prescribe them for no reason.

For me personally, I seem to get over colds at the same rate I always did and

catch the same number of them that I always did. I don't believe that Gleevec

has changed my immune system at all and have watched my friends who don't have

CML, suffer far longer and more frequently with illnesses than I do. I haven't

taken any antibiotics since I was 18 ( I had bronchitis at the time).

Take care,

Tracey

dx Jan 2002

>

> My mother has had a cold for about a week now. She is doing better but I can

> still tell she is congested and still has a mild cough.

> She was placed on an antibiotic prophylactically as soon as she caught it. She

> is on gleevec 400mg dly x 4 months.

>

>

>

>

> ________________________________

> From: Tammy Ferns <tammy@...>

>

> Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 3:53:53 PM

> Subject: RE: [ ] Colds

>

>  

> Tasigna here. colds are far and few between and don't seem to last. <<Knock

> on wood!>> J

>

> Tammy

>

> From: Neal [mailto:nwatson@...]

> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:43 PM

>

> Subject: [ ] Colds

>

> Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

>

> The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

> lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

> of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

> runny nose.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Wow. I can't believe how many side effects these drugs have. It seems like I

am always learning of new ones.

Thanks for the info. Hopefully it won't come to that.

[ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

yes but you may not get any. Sometimes people blame every ailment on their

CML medication and really they would probably get it even if they did not

have CML. I am one of the lucky lucky one that has no side effect on

tasigna. I do have hair loss now and then but it always comes back and I do

get tired but that may have to do with my age. I am 67.

So think positive!

Sharon

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From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Neal

Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:33 PM

Subject: RE: [ ] Colds

Wow. I can't believe how many side effects these drugs have. It seems like I

am always learning of new ones.

Thanks for the info. Hopefully it won't come to that.

[ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

Hi Neil,

I am soooo over our winter in OZ as I've constantly had an upper respiratory

tract infection. I suspect the culprits who keep giving it to me are my

grandchildren as they go to daycare and of course catch every bug and I look

after them at least once a week. No fever ~ or just very mild, but being an

asthmatic, I've had several courses of prednisolone to keep my chest clear

so that it doesn't get any worse. I'm on Tasigna and this would be my worse

year for colds since I was dx in July 07 - it's also the worse winter we

have had too LOL. To help with the runny nose and cough I've been taking a

chesty cough mixture and washing my sinuses out with warm saline.

At the moment the little treasures have come down with a herpes mouth

infection and one has a cold sore on his face, so " touchwood " they don't

give it too me!

Cheers

 -- [ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

Isn't it so strange how everyone is affected differently!!! I just can not get

over it.

Like I said I am on Tasigna and for 2.5 years I have not had a cold at all!!!!!

It is amazing.

Sharon

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From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of

Malseed

Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:15 PM

Subject: Re: [ ] Colds

Hi Neil,

I am soooo over our winter in OZ as I've constantly had an upper respiratory

tract infection. I suspect the culprits who keep giving it to me are my

grandchildren as they go to daycare and of course catch every bug and I look

after them at least once a week. No fever ~ or just very mild, but being an

asthmatic, I've had several courses of prednisolone to keep my chest clear

so that it doesn't get any worse. I'm on Tasigna and this would be my worse

year for colds since I was dx in July 07 - it's also the worse winter we

have had too LOL. To help with the runny nose and cough I've been taking a

chesty cough mixture and washing my sinuses out with warm saline.

At the moment the little treasures have come down with a herpes mouth

infection and one has a cold sore on his face, so " touchwood " they don't

give it too me!

Cheers

 -- [ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.

[Guest guest]

Yep, it sure is Sharon!

 -- [ ] Colds

Does anyone else have a problem getting over colds?

The kids shared their cold with me a few weeks back, and it just keeps

lingering. I keep thinking I'm pretty much over it, but if I get a bad night

of sleep or get worn down, I wake up the next day with the same cough and

runny nose.