I don't want to get sick!

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I am going to Universal this upcoming weekend the 6th-8th. I woke up today and my throat was a little sore and my nose was picking at me last night.
My question is, I may be infected with something already. But what are the best things I can do to stay healthy and not be sick for next weekend.
Thanks,

It sounds like you've picked up a cold. There's not much you can do except try to rest as much as you can. Usually a cold lasts about a week, so by next weekend you should be at least getting better.

best thing I found to help combat a cold is a capsule of garlic and cayenne. It helps boost the immune system and thus helps your own body fight off the virus. Key is to keep them around and start taking them as soon as the symptoms appear. If the cold gets well established, they won't reliive the symptoms but they do get you through it a little faster.They don't necessarily work for everyone and they don't always work for every cold or flu but they do help. Oh, and I room with 2 other guys and we all find they help; not just me. And when one comes down with a virus, we all get takign them right away; in most cases the other 2 of us are only plagued for a night or so and never really get sick.

How would I go about finding a capsuel of garlic and cayenne. I go into the market and where would I look? Is it like a pill that you just swallow with water, or how do you take it?

Whenever I start getting sick, I take Zicam products (usually the throat lozenges). They get me over it in 1-2 days. It's pretty amazing stuff.

Try a healf food store.Personally, I like these "herbal antibiotics" you get from a healthfood shop. If you start taking them at the first sign of a cold, they work wonders. Not cheap though.

Herbal antibiotics. they are not technically anti biotics. Just fight against crap...I dont know how they work but I'm awear of the risks of over useing antibiotics.

Hmmm...I think I will go down stairs and try and find the box so I can figgure this one out... ok, can't find them but I think they are most likely just high doses of vitamins blah blah

In reply to:You're taking antibiotics for a cold??? You do realize that you're making yourself more susceptible (sp) to getting colds? The more you take antibiotics, the more resistant the cold virus becomes.Whoa, she's not talking about penicillin here. She's talking about things that are claimed to have, among other things, antiviral properties. Garlic is one such substance (although I don't know if garlic would actually have much effect on an actual cold or not. (It would be pretty hard to do an objective text with raw garlic.) Some folks (like Linus Pauling) claim that large doses of vitamin C will prevent colds or reduce their severity, but a number of objective test have shown that not to be true.The problem with taking pharmaceutical antibiotics for a cold is that they won't affect the cold at all, since it's a virus, and they will tend to make the bacteria that colonize your body resistant to the antibiotic that you're taking.EDIT: Washing your hands is absolutely the most effective way to keep from getting a cold or flu. I just heard a statistic that good hand washing practices will reduce the possibility of getting a cold by 95% (I think that info came from the WHO, which is campaigning for proper handwashing in medical settings).

I think it fall somewhere between "could be" and "probably is".Someone mentioned Zicam tablets. Zicam's active ingredient is a zinc compound, and if you ingest (in the form of a pill), I don't think there's any possible way that enough zinc could be delivered through the blood to the nasal area to have any effect...unless you took enough to utterly poison yourself. On the other hand, the nasal spay version delivers a concentrated dose directly to where it's needed.The company that makes Zicam claims to have done double-blind studies that show that the spray is effective. I don't know how much I trust their studies, but I've used the stuff, and it seems to have some good effect, although I don't really know how the cold would have progressed if I hadn't used it. Maybe it's a placebo effect...who knows. It is expensive, though.Note that some people have complained that Zicam nasal spray has damaged their sense of smell. The company (Matrixx Initatives) wound up paying 12 million dollars to settle 340 lawsuits early this year, without actually admitting liability.

Well...actually its my mums money.lol
And she swears by the things and hassles me to take them when I'm getting abit sick. They work pretty good.

yea, they sound like they work really good, but you know, thats the problem with todays society, we breed super bugs. my mom has larengitis, has for the past week, went to the doctor the other day an was priscribed antibiotics. got a cold? heres penicilin, stuffy nose? have soem flovent. leg ache? have a vicodin. we over medicate then the bugs go from a regular cold virus to a cold virus that is immune to drugs.

Yep, I know.So if I've got a cold or sore throat thesedays, i dont go to the doctor 4 drugs unless I really need to and have sumthing coming up I need to be well for. I'll let my imunesystem deal with it.

All virususes, including cold viruses, are unaffected by antibiotics. Vicodin won't have any effect of germs at all. The problem with taking an antibiotic unecessarily is that it tends to make bacteria that are in your body resistant to that, and similar, antibiotics. Antibiotics also disrupt the natural balance of bacteria, viruses, and fungus on your skin and in your body. There are friendly bacteria that help keep the other things (including unfriendly bacteria) in check; you don't want to kill off the friendly ones.

i didnt say vicodin for a cold, i said vicodin for a sore leg

Yes, but the subject was bugs and antibiotic drugs.

snd i am talking about over medicating for anyhting, bugs, pain, its just not good

(** eyes crossing **) Yes, of course.

what ever, back on topic

I get mine at a health type store - they come in 450 mg capsules - they are all natural, are not anti-biotics and are not as expensive as over-the-counter cold remedies that don't really fix the cold but rather just mask the symptoms.As was explained to me, the garlic and cayenne mixture does two things that help rid your body of a virus - one is to give your own immune system a boost and the second is to raise your body temperature (the back of the bottle says 100,000 heat units in it) since viruses do not like higher temperatures.I also found similar products in the natural remedy section of pharmacies or other stores with a pharmacy department.