Re: Re: favorite cold remedies?

[Guest guest]

have you tried breath rights menthol

at night?  They help me some. 

hugs

Micki

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From: Thyroiditis [mailto:Thyroiditis ] On Behalf Of suuzin

Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008

2:45 PM

To: Thyroiditis

Subject: Re:

favorite cold remedies?

Thanks, ! I personally wouldn't take GSE again as

I had a very

bad reaction to that. I just avoid milk and do all the traditional

things (soups, vitamins, rest)... and last night the vaporizer sure

helped a lot. I have done the sinus irrigation but just used

salt--will keep your mixture in mind.

> >

> > Figured this is a good time a year to start a thread on this topic.

> > I'm fighting my 3rd or 4th cold since arriving to New York in August!

> > The subway germs are killing me.

> >

> > Since we thyroidians are prohibited from using almost all over the

> > counter cold medicines (yes, if you didn't know, read the back of

> > almost any medicine in your drug store), what do you use? I have used

> > mullein (herb) but it doesn't do anything for sinuses, which is

always

> > my trouble spot. All the traditional soups, tea with honey and lemon,

> > etc., and I think I've tried eucalyptus oil inhalation. I bought a

> > vaporizer today and will use it tonight with a little salt. Bought

> > some natural cough drops.

> >

> > Remember, folks -- no echninacea for us either! Wishing all a warm

and

> > flu-free season!

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I am more inclined to believe that our sensitivities to more colds, germs,

and other infections have to do more with trashed adrenal glands. I have

never tested, but I don't have any doubt that mine are just that. Some

people never experience this, but many do. I was chronically hypo for yrs

before it was discovered, and that is a big factor in the adrenal glands

wearing out, so to speak. It is the adrenal glands that take care of the

immune factors, as in allergies, etc....cortisol.......it gets such a bad

rap, but it does such wonderful things for us.

Re: favorite cold remedies?

> Hi BJ -- yes that's it essentially. In autoimmune disease, the immune

> system is aggressively attacking things it shouldn't--so we don't want

> to add more fuel to its fire is the thought.

>

> One note on the whole cold dilemma--having this list over the years

> I've heard from Hashis folks who suffer terribly from colds since the

> Hashis, those who actually get far FEWER colds now, and those who have

> had no change on that front. Until my move to New York this past

> August, I was in the second group--I think I got one cold in about 5

> years of having the Hashis (and one stomach flu--when I flew to the

> east coast). So I don't attribute my recent rash of colds to the

> thyroid thing... just acclimating to those heartier east coast germs

> and NYC subways.. and possibly the weather change. (But I'm far

> happier here, so it's worth it to tough it out.)

>

> The recurrent vaginal infections are another story and definitely

> coincide with the Hashis, so I'm more likely to suspect something with

> hormone dysfunction or maybe the parasite there. Thankfully, I haven't

> had one of those in many months.

>

>