help with sore throat

[blackbelt2k]

feeling a tingle in my throat, potential sore throat/flu/cold coming on...any advice on how to keep this sucker at bay. I've been gargling salt water, and strict on my diet, but i'd appreciate some more advice. The last thing i want is to get sick and have to take time off from my training.

 

[stronglifts]

feeling a tingle in my throat, potential sore throat/flu/cold coming on...any advice on how to keep this sucker at bay. I've been gargling salt water, and strict on my diet, but i'd appreciate some more advice. The last thing i want is to get sick and have to take time off from my training.

high dosis vitamin C.

 

[blackbelt2k]

i've been drinking oj every morning with breakfast.. I'll drink up more though.

 

[BluEyes]

Don't drink OJ, especially if you intend to megadose it.

It's loaded with sugars and other bad boys.(corn starch, syrup, etc)

Buy a tub of Vitamin C tablets, or have an actual orange.

 

[Falcon]

Yea, you gotta get a lot of vitamin c. Actually, whenever I had a sore throat, orange juice usually makes it more irritated. That might just be me though.

 

[Bible_Belt]

slippery elm tea, try it. The brand near me is "traditional medicinals" and their slippery elm tea is called "Throat Coat." It works very well.

http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/42360/200.jpg

 

[blackbelt2k]

yea the orange juice has been making it irritated for me as well..thanks guys, i'll stop in and get some Vitamin C and some of that tea, anything else i shoudl pick up along the way, as far as helpful in my lifting? I'm already taking mega men sport as my multivitamin..

 

[mrRuckus]

Cayenne pepper and apple cidar vinegar. http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/sore_throat.html ...Absolutely kills the pain of a sore throat.

Zinc lozenges and Vit C.

 

[simon]

Cayenne pepper and apple cidar vinegar. http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/sore_throat.html ...Absolutely kills the pain of a sore throat.

Zinc lozenges and Vit C.

I second the cayenne pepper with apple cider vinegar. Works really well.

 

[mrRuckus]

I second the cayenne pepper with apple cider vinegar. Works really well.

I'm actually using it right now since coincidentally I felt a sore throat coming on about the same time I first saw this thread.

The pain goes away for a good long time then i mix up another small batch and sip on it for a while. It works near instantly.

I've always been susceptible to sore throats. Had strep throat once or twice a year as a kid. I haven't had that in a long while, but i still get sore throats almost exclusively.. they're just about the only illness I ever get. Cough drops are complete crap compared to the cayenne pepper.

 

[blackbelt2k]

great news...the vitamin C ( C-500 from CNC) worked great..i've been taking 2 capsules daily.. i don't know why two, lol, but the sore throat has been disappearing if not gone

 

[EFFORT]

helpful thread i'll try this stuff out next time i get a sore throat

 

[blackbelt2k]

update: i think the sore throat was only part of the big picture... i noticed my ears are itchy, eyes watery, nose, etc... yea, i fukin have allegeries!!! wtf, i've never had them before...so now the question becomes what do i take for allergies?

 

[kickureface]

does the cayenne cure, or suppress symptoms?
and hi doses of vitaminc, how high is high?

 

[blackbelt2k]

does the cayenne cure, or suppress symptoms?
and hi doses of vitaminc, how high is high?

for the vitamin C i was taking 2 tablets of 500mg each.

 

[kickureface]

and it just healed? o.o

this thread is complete bull****
i read it and am like hmm.
half a day later, sore throat...
****ing ring

 

[blackbelt2k]

and it just healed? o.o

this thread is complete bull****
i read it and am like hmm.
half a day later, sore throat...
****ing ring

maybe you should reread it, i said i was developing one, and yes it is gone, but also as i updated, i think it had to do with allergies.

 

[simon]

does the cayenne cure, or suppress symptoms?
and hi doses of vitaminc, how high is high?

Cayenne took the pain away and my sore throat had completely gone by the next morning.

 

[mrRuckus]

does the cayenne cure, or suppress symptoms?

I posted a link. If you're too lazy to read what's hand fed to you, then you can suffer and I'm not going to chew it for you too.

 

[The Forms]

My Ex SWEARS that the best thing for a sore throat is to give a BJ and swallow.

Probably not an option for you (I hope) but next time your girl gets one tell her to try it out.