How to DESTROY a cold

lessthanthree

there is evidence, it just says you need quite big doses for a little bit of respiratory defence.

Douglas & Chalker "There is a modest, and relatively consistent therapeutic benefit in terms of duration of cold symptoms which can apparently be achieved by ingestion of relatively high doses of vitamin C .

Sure, it's a little benefit, but every little helps.

i'd say that the journal you quoted points more towards there not being a relationship between vit C intake after cold symptoms and recovery.

the bit you quote hasn't got a sufficient sample size or statistical margin for it to be used as decent evidence and is merely one of many recent studies that you can find on medline which are majorly inconclusive.

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RetiredAccount89

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SciFi25

Well I swear it does something, otherwise explain to me why I have not had an illness which has troubled me enough to remember it in the last 5 years??

Vit C might help ina small small way prevent a cold, but it certainly wont help cure it.
And to the mian poster - you are aware that as forms of 'vit C' intake go, drinking orange juice is about as useful as drinking water? You absorb barely any of it.
You are much better off eating a few oranges if you are that desperate. THere is more absorbably vit C in two EATEN oranges than 5 litres of conc OJ

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SciFi25

Well I swear it does something, otherwise explain to me why I have not had an illness which has troubled me enough to remember it in the last 5 years??

good immune system? neuroplacebo effect from taking a supplement you believe to be protective..?

i'm not saying people shouldn't take vitamin C when they have a cold, just questioning its actual pharmacological effects.

Reply 25

MattG

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cheers, no more cheapy orange juice for me

Reply 26

lessthanthree

It doesn't really matter if something's working on a medical level or acting as a placebo for something as minor as a cold.

Either way, the person taking it's going to feel better, and if they attribute feelings of betterness to it, it doesn't really affect anything or anyone.

i agree. i was just saying that it's quite likely that taking a random sugar tablet in a vitamin C box (thinking it was Vit C) would be likely to have the same effect.

i even take it myself when i have a cold, although i may have just dashed any possible placebo with my mind :redface:

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SciFi25

timeofyourlife

good immune system? neuroplacebo effect from taking a supplement you believe to be protective..?

i'm not saying people shouldn't take vitamin C when they have a cold, just questioning its actual pharmacological effects.

Good immune system! I never get anything which does the rounds. Hell when I was little my mum kept sending me round to childrens houses with chickenpox so I would catch it, it took her fouteen tries before I caught it and even that was over in under a week!! :biggrin:

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SciFi25

Good immune system! I never get anything which does the rounds. Hell when I was little my mum kept sending me round to childrens houses with chickenpox so I would catch it, it took her fouteen tries before I caught it and even that was over in under a week!! :biggrin:

i'm going to let my future kids roll around in the mud outside, it's always the toddlers with the super clean-living mums who get the most colds when they're older

Edit: saying that, it wouldn't surprise me if they rolled straight onto a used needle riddled with HIV as a consequence of my smarminess.

Edit 2: ...not that i hope to live somewhere with used needles in the garden when i'm older :biggrin:

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SciFi25

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timeofyourlife

i'm going to let my future kids roll around in the mud outside, it's always the toddlers with the super clean-living mums who get the most colds when they're older

Edit: saying that, it wouldn't surprise me if they rolled straight onto a used needle riddled with HIV as a consequence of my smarminess.

Edit 2: ...not that i hope to live somewhere with used needles in the garden when i'm older :biggrin:

I agree with you on that one, I think this sterilisation thing has gone a bit too far. Without giving your immune system the chance to practise when your young your gonna be one sickly adult. Vaccinations, fine. Sweeping/dusting, cool. Antibacterial cleaners, whats the point?? Bleach works just as well and wont build resistance in bacteria. My parents let me do anything as a child, eat this, eat that, go into the dirtyest places possible. I thank them, I think it has caused my great immune system!

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PQ

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timeofyourlife

i'm going to let my future kids roll around in the mud outside, it's always the toddlers with the super clean-living mums who get the most colds when they're older

if only - I was a filthy child :biggrin:

and my mum has always said that life is too short for dusting....I still get far to many colds :frown:

(although it was worse when I was younger)

*crappy immune system*

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Clearing and Applications Advisor

PQ

if only - I was a filthy child :biggrin:

and my mum has always said that life is too short for dusting....I still get far to many colds :frown:

(although it was worse when I was younger)

*crappy immune system*

PQ - the exception to the rule :wink:

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PQ

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timeofyourlife

PQ - the exception to the rule :wink:

Always

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SciFi25