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Protect yourself from Common Cold


Protect yourself from Common Cold



  • Wash your hands frequently.

  • Take cold showers.

  • Drink orange and lemon juice frequently.

  • Increase your immune response by Echinacea.

  • Eat garlic without cooking it.

  • Sleep regularly at night.

  • Keep surfaces in your home clean.

12 comments:

July said...

Cold showers???????

Anonymous said...

why cold showers?

Mostafa said...

Maybe because the contrast with environment after hot showers precipitates the infection

Anonymous said...

echinaecia doesn't work - there's a study documented in the New England Journal of Medicine says it doesn't work, though people say that that may have been too low a dose...

nimer nader said...

cold showers?

Anonymous said...

Eat garlic without cooking it!!!!! what !! and why cold showers?

Anonymous said...

Eat garlic without cooking it?
My clinic patients will suffer much from my breath. (>o<")

Anonymous said...

I experienced a much better feeling AFTER WARM/HOT SHOWER .... BUT NOT COLD SHOWER...

Doctor Blondie said...

Echanicea has NOT been proved effective. Net results were indifferent, can't believe you're actually advising this on a site for medics.

Doctor Blondie said...

^^ Cochrane review

Anonymous said...

there are 3 things that i wanna u explain to me.

first is
why did u suggest us to take a cold shower?

second is
about drink orange or lemon juice frequently..
yes, it could be, but u have to warning for d over dosage because our body just need 60 mg vit C per daily...

and d last is
eat garlic without cook it bfore???
how it could be?!
how about in tropic's country where there're so many parasite's infectious???

Anonymous said...

Is he Justin Timberlake, by the way?