I don’t do anything special to ward off illness, but I do exercise every day. I also will get a jamba juice with an immunity boost if I feel a cold coming on or if others around me are sick. I have no idea if it’s any help at all, but it can’t hurt.

I get my flu shot every year and I’m healthier all round. Okay, I have to knock on wood here, I don’t get sick nearly as often as I used to before the flu shot.

Since I started using Hand sanitizer, getting my annual flu shot and adding vitamins I have been much healthier than those around me. Bob went down hard earlier in the year and I was just dreading getting it and instead, it passed me by. That would have been unheard of in previous years.

So I would say stick with it – and yell at people who come to work and cough all over the place. Like seriously, take a few sick days so I don’t get sick.

Bob’s co-worker used to walk in just hacking up an lung and Bob would then get sick and then I would so one day while feeling way too blue about the situation I told Bob to tell his co-worker to stay the f*ck home when he’s sick. Sure enough the next year Bob sent the guy home and we’re once again healthier.

Stay Healthy!

Oh, when I get a tickle or start to feel sick I take NyQuil immediately – sometimes I get lucky and it knocks it right out of me.

CindyS

As for keeping colds away, I definitely wash my hands a lot but I don’t use hand sanitizers. If someone touches my computer (for fixing something), as soon as they leave, I take out the cleaner and wipe it down. Other than that, I drink lots of liquids and exercise, and try to stay away from co-workers who are sick.

Tee, very interesting article. I’m going to have to think about this one, because it would seem that there are now serious questions about daily vitamins…hmmm..

Sandy, I’ve never tried Airborne. I’ll have to look into it. That’s really unfortunate about getting the flu when you couldn’t get the shot.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39616169/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/

AAR Sandy: There’s been some stuff written about the dangers of over sanitizing.Be careful you don’t go that path, LG.

Heard that, too. Our skin offers its own protection of sorts, so wiping clean constantly is not necessarily an advantage. And I’ve found that the older I get, the less colds I seem to get. Must be the built-up immunity to the many germs we’re exposed to all thru our life. I too get the flu shot, but that doesn’t help colds, as you said.

LinnieGayl, I used to take a daily all-in-one vitamin, but read recently that we may be harming ourselves by doing this. I’ll try to scout down that article and send it to you. So what I’ve done is cut it down to every other day. I think it’s been said many times that Americans have the most vitaminated (a word?) urine in the world. Most of the time we just lose these vitamins from our body that way. But some vitamins accumulate in the system and that’s the danger.

Here appears to be the cure. Live to a good long age and you’ll eventually be immune to most nasty germs and viruses flying around. Plus you won’t be around that many kids, usually, and colds will be a memory. Mothers whose kids are just beginning school appear to get sick a lot, as well as the kids. New teachers, especially, are prone to colds and other such nasty stuff, just because they have to work up that immunity.

But I would definitely try to stay away from coughing and sneezing individuals, is that’s a possibility. Those sneezes throw the germs quite a distance and we inhale them.

I stand by Airborne. Some mornings I wake up feeling a little chesty and I’ll drink a few and I don’t get sick nearly as often as those around me.

There’s been some stuff written about the dangers of over sanitizing. Be careful you don’t go that path, LG.