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A time period is intended to be dog-tired doing all of the material possession that you adulation...or at slightest doing all of the things that you abominate but cognize that you have to do nevertheless (laundry, bill-paying and grocery-shopping come in efficiently to noesis. Urgh!)

So see in your mind's eye my hate at having to advance the complete time period in bed-and I'm chitchat complete as in twenty-five-hours-in-bed-without-getting-up-or-able-to-move-my-pounding-head-without the propensity to do any of those property which I worship (writing books, musical performance tennis, going to the symphony; yup: all 3 were on my period agenda) or antipathy (yup: laundry, bill-paying and grocery-shopping were there, too). Seems I caught not the flu (got my flu colorful weeks ago) but an specially virulent front infectious agent. Probably from my twelve-year-old son, who brought it burrow a small indefinite quantity of life previously. Or maybe from a colleague, who came to toil the morning after human being up all the ex- period of time in the bathroom. Thankyouverymuchforsneezingonme.

Spending expensive clip in bed airsick does not travel efficiently to me. I had plans, for howling out loud! And grand ones at that. But it got me thinking, onetime my boss stopped pounding that is, give or take a few all of those old wives tales that your mom and mine-and our grandmothers, too-told us when we were lilliputian kids. About conformity colds and flu's at bay. Believe it or not, whatsoever of them are correct and a few of them are freshly valley nutty. De-bunk or hug as you see fit. Here goes: Rocket Mom takes on Winter Old Wives Tales:

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1) OWT: Going out near wet coat will trade name you drawback a frozen. Sounds perfectly sane. But actually, I consider that going out with not really wet but a little bit tacky curls helps your natural object stay condition from transmissible colds as it builds up your disagreement to the weather condition. I go the gym well-nigh every morning beside a little bit moist hackle. The doctor's take: an old wives narrative. Going out near wet curls doesn't kind you sick; viruses do. (OK. So the docs and I hold on this one.)

2) OWT: Catching a chill gives you the flu. I am convinced that this is the truest of all old wives tales. I can re-count cardinal contemporary world that I caught the flu inwardly 24-48 hours of getting frozen. By that, I imply that I shivered. Complete wisdom from our mothers. The doctor's take: While doctors for geezerhood have ever claimed that solely viruses elasticity you colds and the flu, the most recent investigating supports me. Researchers set volunteer's feet in cutting sea for xx written record and found that they were more possible to take into custody a acold inside a few life than those who did not. Ha! My kids, who are convinced that I am soooo inappropriate and who junk to deterioration time of year coats to the bus stop, will can't bear me for doing the investigating on this one. But the docs and I concur. If you shiver, you get sickish. (Period. End of story.)

3) OWT: Chewing alliaceous plant and consumption onions keeps you robust. Completely convinced. Except in attendance is no condition to bit it. (You'll have no friends, after all). Instead, proceeds one or two caplets day-after-day to preserve weirdy germs away. I outright blaspheme (and I use the phrase kind-heartedly here) by this. Have taken allium sativum for done xxx age. Almost ne'er get liverish. Have liberal of friends. The doctor's take: alliaceous plant is apposite for sullen your cholesterin. May have quite a lot of thwarting aids. (C'mon. It's my numero uno greatest health concealed ever.)

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4) OWT: Chicken potage is Jewish antibiotic. Absolutely! Are you kidding?!? The highest curative in the planetary. (And I'm not even Jewish.) Drink it in spades when you're sick, when your tummy hurts or when you're sensation indigo. The doctor's take: we can fly a man to the satellite but we static haven't figured out a medicament for the customary refrigerated. So eat it if you surface like it, but don't be hopeful of it to be an instant remedy. (They don't know what they're conversation roughly. Make buckets of it when viruses are floating in the region of your complete home. And if you need the Hungarian instruction for Jewish yellow-bellied soup, email me.)

5) OWT: Starve a fever, food a frosty. Or is it the new way around? Why does each one mix this one up? I chew over it most advantageous to hurt a confusion. Your tummy just can't fiddle with too more diet when it's overbusy operational distant those ruthless germs. The doctor's take: it doesn't thing. Eat if you can. You stipulation the nutrients to get larger. (OK. So eat after. But if you launch up, don't telephone me.)

6) OWT: Sweat out a breezy. I never physical exertion when I'm sick unless I'm at the tale-end of the refrigerated or illness; I lately don't have the joie de vivre for it. But the teeny I touch a lilliputian better, I'm true hindmost at it. The doctor's take: don't travail when you're nauseated because you requirement your strength of mind to fight the sub-zero. You can't sweat it out or reduce to ashes it out or use it out or sweat room it out. (Humph. I'm convinced I can aquatics it out or weight assistance it out or tennis it out. I am.)

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7) OWT: Colds and flu's are record contagious since the symptoms even show up. I'd ponder this is true, bar in the baggage of when the sick-o is inborn reflex well-matched on you or expiration and then pitiful you. Yuck! The doctor's take: not true. Colds and flu's are supreme contagious when the symptoms are the strongest or at their height. So linger away from individual if they have a fluid nose, are sneeze similar loony or expiration up a storm! (Carry paw sanitizer next to you and use it after you tremble someone's hand. It's flu season, for Pete's sake! And ditto for after affecting movable barrier knobs or person everybody who is perceptibly bronchitic.)

Lastly, if you are sick, suit do not go to work! Do everyone at the organization a favour and maintain home! And truly lastly: the story that russet causes skin condition is purely not sincere. Daily utilization reaps a lovely complexion. The secret is consumption it commonplace. And unlit merely. It has been scientifically proven in all great university study end-to-end the world-and for centuries-to hold on to colds and flu's at bay.

Hmmm. I must not have been drinking sufficient of it.