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Do we manifest colds differently than 'normal' people? Everytime my kids get a cold I tend to catch the 'beginnings' of the cold. It never gets to the full blown stages,but lasts 3 times as long and of course makes all my lyme symptoms worse. Just wondering if others are the same.
Come on summer....im done with winter colds.
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Tincup
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Hey HW...
I've heard we do manifest them differently. That's because we are all "special".
Don't know why, but even though we do it differently, it often isn't the same for Lyme patients. You could have this symptom and I could have that symptom.
Tell you what's helped me a LOT over the past several years.
But, it will cost you sweet pea!
I use these and it has been amazing for me and others I've had try them.
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Agree with Tincup. High quality vit C and zinc has been shown to be effective against severity and duration. I start as soon as my throat gets that scratchy feeling and have averted many a cold that way.
A prominent Lyme practitioner said that many Lymies don't get colds because their immune systems are in such overdrive. Starting to get colds can be a sign of 'getting back to normal'. Don't know how much truth there is to that but they are very experienced.
Would welcome hearing from others.
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I get the same problem sometimes. Sometimes I actually feel better when I have a cold, but a lot of times when I feel like my immune system isn't working right, I'll get the beginning of a cold for three or four days before I actually get sick.
Sometimes whenever I go anywhere, I feel like I'm catching a cold.
I like to take astragulus and echinachea when I feel like I'm coming down with something.
Echinachea seems to work really well and I wish I could take it all the time, but my naturopath said that probably wouldn't be a good idea.
-------------------- chronic Lyme/Bartonella
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Hm. It's interesting to me that we react to these viruses differently than non lyme people.
Tincup, I stocked up on Coldeeze! I think I started taking them a bit late in the game, but I think they are helping. Wahoo.
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- If we had the same cold virus in the past that we come in contact with today then we won't get ill, or not as ill because it's not new to us & our immune system can recognize it and deal with it right away.
Still, lyme can totally mess up so much about the immune system. So all bets are off. It "flips" parts / functions and can zoom "some functions of it" to the moon when it should chill out and visa versa.
What lyme does to the immune system is certainly not understood by most doctors who have not gone through the ILADS Physician Training Program. Even the very best and most experienced ILADS connected doctors are learning about all the ways lyme can boomerang unexpectedly.
For those with lyme, it can take a while to get some sense of how to drive this car, so to speak, that has had its entire invisible control circuit board just go haywire.
The same goes for other tick-borne and chronic stealth infections. All bets are off as to just how the various systems / organs / functions of the body are affected. And it can vary person to person and from time to time. -
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- Still, I suppose if anything I pass along can make a difference, here's the best advice:
Do not breathe in what comes out in the toilet -- that is avoid as much as possible being in the same public bathroom as anyone while the toilet is being flushed. Keep the sewer out of our eyes, noses, and lungs.
At home, have all family members and guest CLOSE THE LID, THEN FLUSH. I have a sign on my toilet handle.
Still, keep hand towels away from the toilet for when males use it some liquids my fly in mist.
In the kitchen, keep the hand towels at a level where clothes are not going to be coming in contact. When drying hands, too, do not let the towel touch clothing as that can transfer germs.
At kids' school, it would be good if bathroom breaks could be staggered. Washing hands helps, of course for surfaces touched . . . but keeping the sewer out of the air stream matters greatly.
Much of the work of times' past, with clean water and sewer systems was fabulously helpful at stopping the spread of disease.
But being in the line of mist during toilet flushing is a big risk that I've seen only a few address in a TV segment here and there with blue lights that show how far even mist from a home toilet can fly with the lid is left open to flush.
Public toilets with only the rare lid (of dubious "touchability") and their bombastic flushing at the blink of an eye, well, that's a midair river of toilet mist.
I'd bet if a few schools wanted to develop some kind of guidance and track progress, they'd see far less illness during the winter months if toilet water stayed out of kids' lungs.
The emphasis on
1. washing hands - and keeping hands away from eyes, nose, mouth . . .
2. using elbow to sneeze into (and then not hugging someone with that moist elbow / shoulder right in their face . . .
well, I'd like to see a round triangle to that with
3. "Close the Lid" or "Breathe Away from the Flush" - I just can't think of the right wording or imagery. -
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