nonethefewer: (advice)
[personal profile] nonethefewer
I am full of lists.  When I can feel myself getting sick:

[sleep]
* Try to go to bed an hour earlier than usual.  Don't push it, but.
* Don't overexert myself.  (I failed this today, in that I walked a lot.)

[food]
* Eat lots of good, boring food.  Make sure to stay on the full side of things.  (I am usually not, so.)
* Buy soup or other easy-to-make things.  Hell, buy chicken broth and put it in a thermos, if need be.

[water]
* Make tea.  (Today's was one of Gypsy Cold Care, one of Organic Echinacea, and a dash of red peppers.  Nothing special, but the red peppers felt really nice.)
* Drink tons of water.  See also "tea".

[meds &c]
* Take a multivitamin.
* Make sure I have NyQuil.
* Buy tissues or stock up on toilet paper.

[other]
* Clean my room up a bit, as I'll have no energy for it later, and tidiness helps immensely.
* If I'm living with someone, warn them.  Same if I've spent close time with someone in the past couple of days.
* Do a load of laundry.
* Take a stupendously hot shower.

I'm good at lists.

What do you do when you can feel yourself getting sick?

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Date: 2008-07-23 06:27 am (UTC)
ivy: (grey hand-drawn crow)
From: [personal profile] ivy
Lots of sleep, hot shower, stretching and yogalike exercise rather than my normal hard exercise, multivitamin, Emergen-C, stay hydrated, spicy food, vacuum, have the following drink:
1 cup boiling water
1/2 lemon, squeezed
1 teaspoon raw honey
1 dash cayenne pepper

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Date: 2008-07-23 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cruft.livejournal.com
Fish oil, green tea.

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Date: 2008-07-23 10:27 am (UTC)
siderea: (Default)
From: [personal profile] siderea
Cold-eeze and Zicam spray and swabs: zinc citrate rocks. They really, really work. But you have to start them at the onset of symptom, so now I make a point of carrying some Cold-eeze candies on me at all times. They're also usefully diagnostic. My colds typically start at the back of my throat, with a burning that won't quit. If a Cold-Eeze soothes it and water won't, yep, that's a rhinovirus.

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Date: 2008-07-24 01:11 am (UTC)
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