Immune system support help

[seismic wonder2]

OK, a few things.
Clean your house from top to bottom, a clean house is a healthy house.

Make sure the crawl space under the house is WELL VENTILATED!

Air out your house at least once a week. Open all the windows and doors.

Take at least 2000mg of vitamin C (1/2 at breakfast 1/2 at lunch.)
Take a GOOD multivitamin/multi mineral EVERY MORNING.
Eat LOTS of STEAMED or RAW veggies with every meal.
Eat fruits as snacks
Cut out red meat and cut back on other meats. You can get just as Much protein from beans.
Eat spinnach in salads...lots of Iron.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

Have you ever used Alkolol? No, not alcohol...Alkolol.

Comes in an old-timey-looking bottle at some, not all, pharmacies. You buy what is rather disgustingly called a "nasal douche cup"

which is just a little plastic thingie in which you mix the Alkolol and warm water and then lean back and toss it up your nose.

Yes

But worth it. What it does is rinse the cilia (little hairs that line the nasal passages) and then it runs down the back of your throat. You "smell" it more than taste it - the primary sensation is that of camphor but it has other stuff in it.

Someone told me about it years ago when I'd had a succession of sinus infections and several rounds of antibiotics. It cleared right up!

Some people also swear by Netti Pots, but I think Alkolol is the ticket.

 

[ksacres]

Quote:
So you swallow it??

 

[warmfuzzies]

Does it hurt?? My DHs GRanny always says to do that with salt water. I tried it once and OH WOW! I will never do that again!


And the house clean thing is probably needed.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

So you swallow it??

Well, yes and no.

You toss it back through your nostrils

and then it runs down the back of your throat. So yes, you swallow it, but not through your mouth...

Really, not as awful as it sounds once you get used to it. And no, it doesn't hurt.

I once went looking for it at a drugstore chain and the pharmacist said he didn't know why they didn't carry it because it's "good medicine". You tend to find it more at mom and pop drug stores.​

 

[warmfuzzies]

OK, I just added nose flushing stuff to my list.

 

[turney31]

I also use the alkolol, I was instructed to use it as a nasal spray. It is a mucus solvent. I have chronic sinus problems. i was instructed by ent Dr to dilute half and half with distilled water. I give it a little time to work then rinse with nasal ( saline water) irrigation bottle. Very soothing!

 

[Rosalind]

For respiratory illnesses--how old is your house?

There was this time period from, oh, about post WWII till about the late 1980s when all buildings, including houses, were built pretty much airtight, and the HVAC systems used recirculated air. The idea was to save energy, because you wouldn't have to heat/cool air from outdoors and the household-temperature air couldn't escape.

The thing is, germs are killed by UV light. Indoor air collects dust from your skin, plus from the natural growth of fungus and mites, and then more dust from the natural breakdown of materials in your house over time--not to mention dust from pets. If the windows are closed and the same germy, dusty air is recirculating through your house, collecting more dust and germs as it goes, it's not going to be healthy for you.

Much better to open a window and get some fresh air circulating, let a little sunlight in. Open multiple windows if you can. This time of year, DH and I leave the upstairs windows open at night and put an extra blanket on the bed. It's plenty comfortable.

 

[warmfuzzies]

Our house is older then that I think. It was built in the twenties or earlier. But, it is anything but airtight!

And I do try to have the windows and doors open as mush as possible. We are already getting bugs here, though.

Thank you guys all for the help! I will be working on this. Next time we get to town I will pick stuff up.

 

[hungryhensfarm]

I'm taking ClearGuard by Nutrilite. It works better if taken before getting a cold or allergy flare up. It does seem to be helping some though.