when fighting a common cold or light flu I...

[binö]

(common cold meaning basic cold light to mod respiratory phlegm/lite coughing/sneezing/etc...flu lite meaning no major fever, just achy and generally feeling like shit)


...don't take anything typically.
just try to lay low, drink a lotta water, and ride it out.
my thinking is that medications don't really do much for something that is gonna run it's course regardless.
is this logical or am i just delaying recovery?
chris/rw?

 

[grubd]

I am in the same boat and doing the same exact things as you. Why use medication and become immune to it for when you really need it?

 

[Smurfy]

(common cold meaning basic cold light to mod respiratory phlegm/lite coughing/sneezing/etc...flu lite meaning no major fever, just achy and generally feeling like shit)


...don't take anything typically.
just try to lay low, drink a lotta water, and ride it out.
my thinking is that medications don't really do much for something that is gonna run it's course regardless.
is this logical or am i just delaying recovery?
chris/rw?

you go at it biteme style

 

[binö]

you go at it biteme style

the way i look at it:
a fever is killing off your illness...medically altering the fever and thus prematurely ending it, allows the illness to
linger for longer whereas letting the fever run its course
would effectively rid your body of the illness.
understandly i know this isn't always the case (case=not life threatening lite flue/cold) and a medicine/doc visit is necessary.

 

[bruce9241]

Totally logical. I trust nature more than medicine in most cases. I pretty much do the same, except I go to the gym more and run it out and also eat a lot more vitamin C.

 

[split endz]

the way i look at it:
a fever is killing off your illness...medically altering the fever and thus prematurely ending it, allows the illness to
linger for longer whereas letting the fever run its course
would effectively rid your body of the illness.
understandly i know this isn't always the case (case=not life threatening lite flue/cold) and a medicine/doc visit is necessary.

Bro you are exactly right. The meds you would take only supress the symptoms anyway; they do nothing to end the illness. I have learned the single best thing I can do when sick is sleeeep. I sleep as long as I can, then use nyquil to sleep some more zzzzz

 

[binö]

Bro you are exactly right. The meds you would take only supress the symptoms anyway; they do nothing to end the illness. I have learned the single best thing I can do when sick is sleeeep. I sleep as long as I can, then use nyquil to sleep some more zzzzz

but then obviously some fevers can kill you and just chillin would be a bad course of action.
so i guess there is a severity point where med aide is necessary...in 20 yrs that has only happened to me once (asthma attack)

 

[jnevin]

I prefer to kill it by flooding my system with hard liquor and blow.

 

[KillahBee]

i find raping small forest animals (badgers, flying squirrels, small birds) provides necessary antioxidants to overcome your everyday cold / AIDS inflammation.

 

[nimbus]

whenever I start feeling sick, I just stop being sick and be awesome instead. True story