*takes on her white coat, clears her throat and starts lecturing*
Maria Send a noteboard - 31/03/2011 04:10:32 PM
First of all, if you start to feel ill, give your body rest and time to heal itself instead of hoping it will go away while going about one's busy life. Often the start of a cold will just simply go away if you just take it easy a couple of days.
Second, all the general stuff about eating healthy, not smoking and staying in physical shape. If walking is difficult, what about swimming or cycling?
On stomach bugs there's usually one out of two culprits afoot: children or not good enough hand-washing. (stomach bugs spread by the fecal-oral route). Make sure to wash your hands or use hand-desinfectant before handling food. According to a friend of mine who's more often than not seriously immuno-suppressed to medications, being neurotic about this helps with reducing infections.
Last, you could try various natural remedies. Few have any real evidence, and I don't know much about it. But I've heard that garlic is supposed to enhance the immune system (AND it keeps nasty blood-sucking vampires away, which is a positive side effect)
An important thing if you start on some herbal medicines or other so-called alternative medicines is telling your doctor about it if you get any medications, since many of the herbal medicines interfere with drug metabolism in the body.
Hope you get well soon!
-Self-appointed RAFO-almost-doctor
Second, all the general stuff about eating healthy, not smoking and staying in physical shape. If walking is difficult, what about swimming or cycling?
On stomach bugs there's usually one out of two culprits afoot: children or not good enough hand-washing. (stomach bugs spread by the fecal-oral route). Make sure to wash your hands or use hand-desinfectant before handling food. According to a friend of mine who's more often than not seriously immuno-suppressed to medications, being neurotic about this helps with reducing infections.
Last, you could try various natural remedies. Few have any real evidence, and I don't know much about it. But I've heard that garlic is supposed to enhance the immune system (AND it keeps nasty blood-sucking vampires away, which is a positive side effect)
An important thing if you start on some herbal medicines or other so-called alternative medicines is telling your doctor about it if you get any medications, since many of the herbal medicines interfere with drug metabolism in the body.
Hope you get well soon!
-Self-appointed RAFO-almost-doctor
Maria
Little?
Me?
Far from it.
I am just large enough.
Fill myself completely
lengthwise and across
from top to bottom.
Are you larger than yourself maybe?
-Ingrid Hagerup-
Little?
Me?
Far from it.
I am just large enough.
Fill myself completely
lengthwise and across
from top to bottom.
Are you larger than yourself maybe?
-Ingrid Hagerup-
Immune system - suggestions for how to improve it?
31/03/2011 11:45:52 AM
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Get enough sleep, avoid stress, eat a healthy and varied diet, find other ways to exercise.
31/03/2011 01:21:14 PM
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There are a lot of things that claim to help but not much that is proven to work
31/03/2011 02:17:54 PM
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Make sure you're getting a lot of water.
31/03/2011 03:30:28 PM
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Hahaha, I don't just kill my veggies, I torture them!
31/03/2011 07:43:13 PM
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That's not torture!
31/03/2011 08:26:08 PM
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Oh good!
31/03/2011 08:43:37 PM
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Have it removed. Otherwise, sorry, no. *NM*
31/03/2011 03:37:24 PM
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That probably would help. *NM*
31/03/2011 05:36:00 PM
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Gosh. I'm just happy my suggestion was more useful than Snoop's. *NM*
01/04/2011 05:44:14 PM
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*takes on her white coat, clears her throat and starts lecturing*
31/03/2011 04:10:32 PM
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Re: *takes on her white coat, clears her throat and starts lecturing*
31/03/2011 05:48:19 PM
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Come out for a drink at the pub *NM*
31/03/2011 04:29:16 PM
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Alcohol is a disinfectant, after all *NM*
01/04/2011 08:26:21 AM
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Eat healthy to make sure your immune system has the vitamins it needs
31/03/2011 10:48:50 PM
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