I think I have it but have been keeping smug and secret, but here it is. Last year everyone had a cold and kindly passed it to me so I did a bit of reading on it and in my cycling mag found the the quickest way to clear it was to eat garlic and lots of spicy food and basically do anything to make your nose run a lot.And it went on with the reasoning and what not. And incidentally if you have a sore throat hot water with honey and a slice of lemon soothes it instantly. So this year I note everybodies had the lurgi again so what I've been doing,simply, is blowing and making sure my nose isn't running for more than a few seconds. As soon as it starts, I get it wiped. Fair do's I've been a bit obsessive with it and have gone through loads of tissue, but its worked a treat. I can enter an infected room and sit there smugly, its great. Watch me fall foul of it now cos I told everyone!

You sure you posted this in the correct forum???

Something like BigGirlsBlouseBuilders.co.uk might be more appropriate!


Cheers,
James

BigGirlsBlouseBuilders.co.uk are great, they really did help me sort out my grazed knee.

On a more serious note.... I've read (no idea where now!) that blowing your nose tends to make you feel worse.... it fills the nasal sinuses with germ filled bacteria and therefore you feel much worse... without actually helping your white blood cells fight the infection.

Oh, and you get a sore nose too!

Cheers,
James

I'd have thought that blowing would empty the sinuses of all the bad stuff. Feel like a right girl talking about this now, cheers James!

I read somewhere recently (again, no idea where) that children who pick their nose and eat it turn out healthier than those who don't. I can't see a great rush of people taking up this habit in an aid to beat the flu though...

Building up a resistance? What about picking someone elses nose so you get a broad range of resistance?

ill agree,a nice hot curry or curry powder in tea cures most things

Honey and fresh Lemon juice mixed is a brill soother for the throat, and much cheaper / nicer than stuff from the chemists.

Honey and Vinegar is the Locost version. just as good but not so lemonny.. Still works well, and does not taste too bad.

Been using it since I was a kid.

Cant beat a good Curry for upset tummies. The spices and herbs work well on bacteria and dodgy guts... Kill or cure!,... either way it can clear the stomach and passages fairly quickly

i always blow my nose when it runs. I also always et bogies as a kid Seems proper sick now!

Anyway, the long and the short of it is im bullet proof now, havent been properly ill in years, cant remember my last day off ill and havent seen a doctor in about 12 years, except for holiday injections.

Anyone want some bogie?!

with a very runny nose you'd be better off with a hose pipe to your mouth, he he

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Anyway, the long and the short of it is im bullet proof now, havent been properly ill in years, cant remember my last day off ill and havent seen a doctor in about 12 years, except for holiday injections.

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I seem to remember blowing your nose forces the muck into the deeper/hidden bits of the sinae (?) and make thigns worse as the bacteria have space to breed without the white blood cells around to kill them all. This comes from a bloke who always blows his nose and in the winter has one, just one damn it running nostril. Which is really irritating. Although I do spend all my time going form warm to cold places (van to peoples homes with tea).

Tis a shame that children are wrapped in Cotton wool nowadays ... Was walking through my old Park in Skegness , when over there at Xmas and see the council has taken away all the swings slides rocking horse them spinning wheel things, there is nothing there now, such a shame as i can remember how much fun i had on them when i was a child.