Germ warfare

Our life long health starts early on, as babies. Getting sick as a child can be healthy for you as an adult. We actually need exposure to illnesses, so the body knows what to look for and is able to fight it off.
For years I have avoided taking over-the-counter meds and let the cold or flu run its course. Once my body does this it now has the info to fight it off in the future.
Sometimes I worry that people, especially in the U.S., do to much for their children when they get sick. I know this can be stressful for new parents to do. However, it may help in the long run.
If you do get sick enough that some one prescribes antibiotics, follow that treatment with some probiotics. The antibiotics they give will sometimes kill useful bacteria in the gut. This will only leave you more vulnerable to getting sick again.
Always remember, there are good bugs and bad.

One of the main problems in our present sanitized world is that we are TOO clean in our ways and habits. Going back more years than I care to remember we had a communal bath once a week after mum did the weekly wash using the same warm soapy water. We rarely washed our hands prior to meals and ate many things now considered unhealthy like beef fat and salt on slices of bread ( a luxury at the time!) Raw vegetables potatoes cabbage sprouts turnips apples pears and berries etc. were munched as we walked through the fields.

We ate everything put before us as times were hard in the 30s with strikes and unemployment. Mum died at 93 years of age, this following a fall and breaking her hip, she never recovered from the operation. The point I am making is that as we ate everything we became immune to most of the common diseases of the present day.

If you fell and had a bump mum rubbed it with butter gave you a hug and said you were OK and you were.If you had a cold it was a mustard plaster stuck to your chest next you were OK. Cuts and bruises had a kiss ten an elastoplast that you proudly displayed to show your bravery and you were cured.

My father, a miner took bread and beef dripping with salt and four pints of cold tap water for his "snap"to work every day of his working life. He died at rthe age of 92 from emphsyma due to his working conditions in the mine

When you talk of nutrition and supplements the generation of Mum and dad had none of these yet they lived to a great age. I had four aunts and three uncles all passed away well into their nineties their nineties, as were my two grandmothers 96 and 100 years of age. Both my grandfathers were killed in mining explosions in their fourties

Keep smiling

Wash your hands after touching public property. Use a hand sanitizer, take vitamins and carry kleenex.

I appreciate your input DwinD, I agree totally.

We are what we eat, breath and drink. It has taken me many years to fully "get that".

I am always trying to learn how to improve on my quality of life. Some folks just have good genes, and don't get as sick as other would doing the exact same thing. But we are all exposed to so many more toxins today, than say even 30 years ago. It has become more like a maze today, living with all of the outside exposure. I wish that we could teach nutrition like we teach drivers ed? (or something like that) smiling!

The FDA does not want us to be aware that through proper nutrition and supplements that we can strengthen our immune system to the point of effectively being immune to most illnesses: as is the case with your co-worker queenoffit.

I swore off Doctors years ago when I came to understand that it was neither their goal nor purpose to heal me, but simply their endeavor to treat me, and at great expense in every imaginable way.

It is America's diet that is the chief contributor to our record levels of illness in our Nation.

No surprises here. You learn after working with patients in hospitals that you subconsciously note when you've touched anything...... then you always wash or sanitize

I always thought flu shots were a pile of poop.

They just "immunize" you against the "most common" strain of the virus. PSHHT.. yeah right.

A few years ago, everyone kept getting sick, then get a little better, come back to work (too soon) and then the cycle would repeat. I heard folks who had to go back to the Dr. up to three times for stronger antibiotics. Even me, I tried everything to shake it, and finally succumbed to taking them. (which I can count on one hand how many times I have done that in 20+ years).

Anyway, there was this one guy, the facility director, and he was around all of us, and he never got sick. I asked him, "what are you doing? You are the only one not getting ill?"

He told me he did not eat dairy, took vit C and echinacea. I think him being a vegan may have given him the extra boost.

just my 2 cents, fwiw.. ;)

The CDC determines what strains of flu viruses are to be given in vaccines each year. Last year they guessed wrong. A healthy diet and low dose vitamins have proven just as effective in strengthening the immune system.

It's important to carry some of the hand sanitizer for going to the store, doctor, and anywhere that a lot of people may have touched the same items.