How to not get sick

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Alaina

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

If you do take echinacea, remember it's not good to take it continuously for more than 2 weeks!! Go 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off at the most!

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

If you do take echinacea, remember it's not good to take it continuously for more than 2 weeks!! Go 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off at the most!

Absolutely right. And when you buy things like Echninacea, make sure it's not some cheap brand. Pay the right price for your health. Echninacea really helps... saved me many many times.

[Alaina]

Vitamin C is also really good (I probably didn't have to tell you that though). But I'm pretty sure an "overdose" of Vitamin C is considered to be 10,000 mg (in one day).

Ogre: Yeah, Airborne works but it has artificial sweetener in it. The bad kind, too, I think...

Bharat: I totally agree! A bottle of good quality vitamins may cost close to $30, but they just work so much better!

[Ryan Albright]

Just make sure you wash your hands regulary, because we cant fight airborn pathogens but alot of germs do come from what you touch.

[Allison K]

How about just be determined to not get sick. In psychology we learned about the placebo effect and other powers of the thought in what seems to be physical and it appears to work for me. I haven't even had a cold in about five years.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Allison K

How about just be determined to not get sick. In psychology we learned about the placebo effect and other powers of the thought in what seems to be physical and it appears to work for me. I haven't even had a cold in about five years.

Yeah, just keep on saying "I'm not gonna get sick." Yesterday I had a really bad cold, now i'm fine.

[Liz C]

interesting responses...there was a cold going around school last week about 100 people were sick out of say, no more than 550, i think

Alicia, feel better soon!!!!!!

[nehalita]

wow i never knew about all of this. I'm big on vitamin C though. i tell everyone to drink OJ. and sleep (but I'm not one to talk on that)...if you don't sleep then you make yourself vulnerable because your body doesn't recover and *blah blah* I'm lecturing again, aren't I?