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Re: MAOI and treating a cold

Posted by blueboy on September 7, 2007, at 14:28:48

In reply to Re: MAOI and treating a cold, posted by Meri-Tuuli on August 31, 2007, at 15:22:09

Well, I agree with you 100% in terms of your practical advice. But you would be surprised how and why the symptoms of a cold occur. There's a BBC/Discovery show available (I know Netflix has it), called "Body Story". It is really mixed, as some of the time it is silly and even insultingly elementary, but mixed in are some things that I guarantee you don't know about your immune system, pregnancy, death, bones, etc.

Anyway, one of the episodes deals with getting the flu and I was amazed, astonished, and generally perplexed at what actually goes on and how utterly ignorant I was. Believe me, it's not like you cough to get rid of the bad germs and get phlegm when your white corpuscles die after killing viruses.

(The one on getting drunk is pretty good, too. If I remember correctly, "our hero" and "our heroine" actually have inappropriate sex under the influence.)

> I think your immune system will do a good job clearing out your cold. You don't need to take anything to 'treat' a cold. I let colds run their course, and I don't take anything at all, other than plenty of orange juice (or other liquids) and bedrest, and I don't extert myself.
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> The symptoms of colds (fever, runny nose etc) are just your body's ways of trying to rid yourself of those little viruses giving you the cold in the first place, so I tend to just let them do their thing.
>
> Meri


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