How to get rid of colds and flu better and faster....

Today's Post: Thursday, 11-10-2011

a) See the post last Tuesday, 11-8-2011 also. It was on ways to prevent colds and flu. By far the best solution is not have them last zero time by simply NOT getting them at all!

For example, taking an optimum level of vitamin D3 as we described there boosts your immune system’s killer cells so much you are less likely to get colds and flu. But the same effect is still there if you get a cold or the flu anyway. That means if you do while taking the 4,000 to 8,000 iu a day of vitamin D3, your immune system will kill it off sooner and more reliably.

Another example, the pneumonia vaccine we recommend there is very effective in people who take the optimum level of vitamin D3.

That means if you do that and then get a bad chest cold or flu that would have led to pneumonia, you will NOT get the dangerous and painful pneumonia follow on disease. So you will be far less sick, get well faster, and be dramatically safer.

b) If you get either a cold or flu and then have a fever, drink extra water.

DRINK A LOT OF EXTRA WATER!

The doctors say to do that but normally don’t tell you how much it does for you and how protective it is!

They are correct. But it’s way more helpful than their low key way of saying it suggests!

When you have a fever, you lose water more quickly and feel bad enough you may not notice you are getting thirsty or have a dry mouth sensation.

The dehydration that can lead to can cause fainting and even worse problems!

At best you feel weak, in capacitated and unable to move around much.

But why go there?! Drinking the extra water prevents that!

As soon as you find you have a fever, go get an extra large drink of water, immediately. Then as soon as you find you have to go to the bathroom from the extra water, immediately go get an extra large drink of water again. And, keep doing this process as long as you have a fever.

Also any juice or tea or coffee or milk you normally would drink, do so. Drink that in addition to the extra water.

The benefits are dramatic. You still feel bad. You still feel sick. BUT you avoid feeling weak and incapacitated. You can still function well if you need to. If you don’t, you may be forced to lie down or sit down and stay there. Yecch!

Also, short of fevers over 103 degrees, fevers are GOOD when you are sick. Fevers signal your immune system to launch and build up its counterattack. That shortens the illness. And you get well sooner.

Drinking the extra water enables you to avoid taking an over the counter fever reducer when you have the typical lower fever that helps you get well sooner.

You also can then avoid the expense and side effects of taking the over the counter fever reducer too.

If you get a fever of 104 or more of course, do take the over the counter fever reducer and make your extra water ice water until your fever drops a bit.

We will add part 2 of this post next time.

But just with what was in Tuesday’s post and drinking the extra water, you can make a HUGE difference in how much less sick you are and feel. And, you will get well faster!