[Alaina]

Yo Peeps,

It's almost competition season, and the last thing we all want to do is catch a cold! So here are some of my personal remedies for when you're feeling a cold coming on...

*Take Echinacea. Pills, lozenges, tea, extract...whatever you can tolerate! And take a lot of it!

*Emergen-C. It's about $15 for a box but it lasts a while and it definitely cures you. It's a vitamin and mineral complex powder. They come in a bunch of flavors. My 'recipe' goes as follows:
Take a water bottle or good sized drinking glass. Pour in 2 packets of Emergen-C. Squirt in 3 dropper-fuls of Echinacea extract. Add water. Stir well and enjoy. =P Take 3 times a day.

*Vitamin complexes. Especially ones that are made for immunity. Deep Defense and Wellness Formula are ones I use. I don't know their brand names, I'll look when I get home.

If you use all of these liberally as soon as you notice cold symptoms, you should be fine in a day or two.

Hope this is useful to anyone!