[hasasnn2345tv]

Maybe you are getting all of mine.

JM

[encunnibriG]

I can't remember the last time I really had one.

JM

[Kimmitmelvirm]

I pity you.

[TeftyJokip]

Maybe you are getting all of mine.

JM

It's been a while since I was sick. Paying for the late nights and early mornings.

[temansertewek]

I've had zero so far, knock on wood. I usually get sick in the early spring, every year.

[RilmAlime67]

I had one, didn't put me out of commission though.

If you feel a cold coming on I suggest rinsing your mouth out with 50/50 Hydrogen Peroxide/Water. This is a good mouth wash as it kills all the germs. Also, wash your hands a couple time of day (not a row), take a multivitamin, and drink a cup of tea.

[Adamanta]

Invalid poll!

I've had nothing so far, so doubt I'll be getting 3 between now and the end of Winter.

Hence I have voted banana, like everyone else apparently.

[Everwondopedo]

It's been winter for 16 days already.
No colds so far. I guess -22C is not a good temperature for germs.

[Infiseeenvelp]

So far I've already had 3 separate colds. Each lasted 1-2 weeks separated by 4-7 days of relatively good health.

Awesome. Eating 2000 mg of vitamin C pills a day.

Here's the evidence on how useful that is:

http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab000980.html

Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
The term 'the common cold' does not denote a precisely defined disease, yet the characteristics of this illness are familiar to most people. It is a major cause of visits to a doctor in Western countries and of absenteeism from work and school. It is usually caused by respiratory viruses for which antibiotics are useless. Other potential treatment options are of substantial public health interest.

Since vitamin C was isolated in the 1930s it has been proposed for respiratory infections, and became particularly popular in the 1970s for the common cold when (Nobel Prize winner) Linus Pauling drew conclusions from earlier placebo-controlled trials of large dose vitamin C on the incidence of colds. New trials were undertaken.

This review is restricted to placebo-controlled trials testing at least 0.2 g per day of vitamin C. Thirty trials involving 11,350 participants suggest that regular ingestion of vitamin C has no effect on common cold incidence in the ordinary population. It reduced the duration and severity of common cold symptoms slightly, although the magnitude of the effect was so small its clinical usefulness is doubtful. Nevertheless, in six trials with participants exposed to short periods of extreme physical or cold stress or both (including marathon runners and skiers) vitamin C reduced the common cold risk by half.

Trials of high doses of vitamin C administered therapeutically (starting after the onset of symptoms), showed no consistent effect on either duration or severity of symptoms. However, there were only a few therapeutic trials and their quality was variable. One large trial reported equivocal benefit from an 8 g therapeutic dose at the onset of symptoms, and two trials using five-day supplementation reported benefit. More therapeutic trials are necessary to settle the question, especially in children who have not entered these trials.

[DrBrightonone]

Translation: You're Old!

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[Jorcelirl]

Translation: You're Old!

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Even my feeble brain was able to figure that one out.

[CuittisIL]

Looks like KH doesn't have a top-notch immunity system. It's getting better all the time with these common colds (well, unless he has AIDS).

That's what he gets for letting Drake spoon him on those cold, lonely nights, so long ago.

[flopay]

Especially not now. It had been ~3 years since I had any illness before this season.

Plus I'm fat and weak. I haven't been the the gym in 3+ months. Didn't gain any weight, but I dropped about 5 lbs of muscle and replaced it with 5 lbs of fat.

**** ****ing physics.

Merry Christmas

[nermise]

Yeah, like I'm supposed to know CG protocols. There's probably more traffic at the boinking panda site.
Sheesh

[inve.tment]

I doubt CG even wins that one. They're both pretty bad.

Sheeeeeeeeesh

[PaulRyansew]

I'm a bit under 75kg.

[velichay]

Generally better off just spending your money on fruit and veg, eating better, sleeping better, drinking less.

What are you, a ****ing communist?

[WumibBesowe]

"I read a news article and some studies that this vitamin C ain't so good for ya after all, so don't eat vitamin C, you're better off eating lots of fruits and veggies"

You have no idea why this is so funny, do you MikeH?

[frequensearules]

By way of a summary then, regularly taking 1-2g vitamin C probably shortens the time a normal adult is sick of a cold by less than 10%, but they will get sick just the same. As to mega doses (4-8g) on the onset of symptoms the evidence is not conclusive.

I have a friend whose doctor thinks the kidney stone he got was due to too much vitamin c. He tried to stay away from it, which I didn't think was reasonable.

Me neither if you mean giving up fruit and vegetables. Curiously, vitamin C may protect against gallstones so I suppose it may be a heads I win tails you lose situation in the end for him. Of course this is a German study and thus suspect because of their general tendency to hocus pocus.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763865/