posted on September 25, 2002 01:31:20 AM new
My husband had (maybe a minor cold)sick couple of days and now he is just fine-good for him. Well I am always really careful and spray door knobs with lysol and use the anti-bacterial soaps and what not when some one in this house has a sniffle or a cough or whatever. Now here I am up at 3 O'clock in the morning because I can't sleep. I have a runny nose, a headache, a sore throat, chills and can't sleep because my husband is snoring too loud and I feel like crap. As it would turn out he admitted to me -loving husband that he is of giving me a bye kiss in my sleep before he went to work in the morning when he was sick. He infected me with his cold and whatever in my sleep- darn him.
I have a whole medicine cabinet of cold, sinus, allergy, flu and whatever products- what works for you?
posted on September 25, 2002 10:37:43 AM new
Hi there,
I don't REALLY have an answer for you regaring the BEST medicine, but I like Nyquil, the have a daytime anti drowsy and their nighttime works wonders! BUT -- about spraying your house with Lysol and using the anti bacterial hand soap (I don't use them and am rarely sick, AND have a 4 year old in pre-school and I parent help and am SURROUNDED by 20 runny nosed kids all school year. My daughter doesn't get sick either. ANYWAY, LOL, my husband always seems to get sick -- must just be in the genes!) OK, I read somewhere that using the anti bacterial soaps and sprays actually makes viruses stronger after awhile, a the get immune to it. Sort of the same as when you don't finish all your anti-biotics, so the virus learns to re-sist because you didn't "kill" it all the way. YOu migh want to do some research on that. Just FYI.
posted on September 25, 2002 07:48:42 PM new
LOL! Gee, I sound like a bozo....here is an article stating what I summarized a bit what I mostly meant is down toward the bottom of the page. I have a pre-schooler so I was thinking of her, it had been a while since I read it, but anyway, it may not matter for adults as much. I know what I want to say, I just can't SAY it, LOL!
According to the New England Journal of Medicine dust is good for children! I guess the contact with some germs inhances the immune system against some allergic conditions, much as vaccines protect against disease.
posted on September 26, 2002 02:13:36 AM new
It's not "virii" it's "viruses." We think it should be "virii," I used to think it was "virii," but apparently the Romans never thought in terms of more than one virus, so they never had a word for "virus" in the plural. Therefore, we pluralize it according to our own rules of language.
posted on September 26, 2002 03:41:44 AM new
I like the word virii. I first heard it in a 7am micro class, and thought it was one of theose underappreciated words that should be put into use. If people can loose their minds, I can spread virii. You have the right to an informed opinion -Harlan Ellison
posted on September 26, 2002 05:15:36 AM new
Years ago, in college, I asked my Shakespeare prof if she had any more "syllabusses." Still cringe thinking about it.
"Virii" sounds a heck of a lot better than "syllabusses."
posted on September 26, 2002 07:21:38 AM new
Sylabuses?? I don't think so, I've never heard of such a thing, except that one time when, with horror, I heard it coming out of my own mouth. What do you think?
posted on September 26, 2002 08:03:37 AM new
Thanks everybody- I have lots of medicine in me today and I now have PMS to add to the mix of feeling icky. I don't think I should type any auctions today- Lord knows what I would I would type.
