1 post tagged “cold remedy”
What do you do to get rid of a cold or flu?
Submitted by ashenflowers.
Well I have just discovered that you can flick through all the past "QotD´´s" so if you dont care to answer todays (see todays- describe your first kiss) you can look for another one. So I don´t know about FLU which sounds a bit stronger but when I have a cold it never occurs me to try and get rid of it...I mean..it´ll just go won´t it? I try to drink lots of water as I have noticed this makes it go quicker. Quicker than drinking lots of orange juice thats for sure. Sorry to seem like I am slamming on spanish culture again (must stop doing that) but it really bugs me how people run off to the doctor for a COLD here, and it bugs me even more how quickly the doctors prescribe stuff for it. I mean I know they cannot say to a patient, "Oh don´t be such a baby, blow your nose and get on with it" but perhaps they could say what a doctor once said to a friend of Dads- "Well, I could prescribe you a medecine, and it will be gone in a few days....or I could not prescribe you anything and it will be gone in a few days" Maybe if more doctors responded in a similar way people would not treat it like such a big deal here. Okay, and lets do a little survey. We all know that a cold is a virus right? when do you catch a virus? From someone else. So where did this thing come from , like you will catch a cold if you walk barefoot, of you will catch a cold if you go out with your hair wet (I know you will FEEL cold...but CATCH one?) and a dozen others. One theory is that we catch more colds in winter as we are in confined conditions more, with the windows shut and we all give it to each other. Does anyone know anything about that? Do we really catch more colds in winter? I always get them in summer to be honest. When people catch a cold in summer here (see...temperatures of 45 out) they always look for some climatological motive.."Oh that is because a breeze came into my bedroom at 3am last night, I knew I should have slept under the sheet" Can anyone offer any insight? Is it just old wives tale or is there some basis to it?
