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Historical December 1978 article. Health, remedy and nutrition claims are reproduced as archival statements and are not current medical recommendations.
Well, folks, the cold season is approaching, if not, upon us. Dambn, give me a Gleedex!
Colds are recognizable by everyone, and doctors hate them: “Why don’t they have diseases I can CURE? They have COLDS!” said one People’s Clinic doctor, several years ago. The common cold is the worst villain of the workplace, causing more lost time than any cause. It is diagnosible by lay people and doctors alike: runny nose, sick chilly feeling, sneezes, etc. PFOOEY on colds!
But, your chances of the instant protection — a vaccine — is slim. About umpteendiddly (who’s counting?) viruses cause what is considered a “cold.” Very little likelihood of a vaccine, say the savants. So here are a few thoughts ..
Colds are named for cold weather, when people are cooped up together inside. That’s when they pass viruses around to each other best, and since colds go by “droplet,” they pass them in sneezes and coughs inside of closed rooms. So, the first preventive method we would offer is GOOD MANNERS: Don’t cough, sneeze, blow, etc., in someone else’s face! If that isn’t enough, if you feel sick enough to disgust yourself (with hack, cough, sneeze and dribble), don’t take yourslef to your workplace or school to contaminate others!
Your best protection is a healthy body, which can withstand evil viruses. Hence, Attention to proper nutrition, adequate rest, avoidance of physical and emotional stress, and moderate exercise are probably good measures. Some Writers have noted that chilled extremities (like wet feet) don’t give you a cold, but the mucuous membranes of the nasopharnyx tend to blanch, possibly giving a place for the virus to gain foothold (and besides, you would be more comfortable with warm feet anyhow), so “keeping warm against a cold” might not be a bad idea.
If, after all your trying, you get a cold: First of all, don’t trot it around to display it! Your friends know what they’re like, and you won’t make friends by infecting them … you’ll just make yourself, and them, more miserable!
A few day’s bed rest is indicated . . you can tell how much by how terrible you feel. You won’t die (it’s a self-limiting disease) and when you feel you may live, you MAY! A light liquid diet is encouraged (chicken soup and orange juice is THE classic, especially if Mom made the former), until appetite recovers, A couple of aspirin three times a day to combat that ache-all-over feeling is also okay. No penicillin or antibiotic will do any good, UNLESS you develop what is called a “secondary infection.” By all means, if your fever (for adults) goes over 101°, or if you cough up yellow-to-rusty sputum, or if you have ear aches, or if your symptoms keep hanging ON-and-ON, go see your favorite doctor; you may have that secondary infection!
Oh, yes: Vitamin- C! It’s a controversy. If you feel that this vitamin will help you beat colds, take it unless you are on salt or sodium restricted diets; at which time you should be sure, you don’t take the form of ascorbic acid which is sodium salt (ask the druggist). Otherwise, if it makes you feel better: a happy mind makes for a sound body (which isn’t exactly what the YMCA meant by their motto, but .. .).
And AT …CHO000 to all of you, too!
Christine Smith.
Original photograph caption
Original doctor-and-patients illustration. The Paper, December 1978, page 6. Artist not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1978.
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Original source: SD_Times1978_12.pdf, printed page(s) 6; PDF page(s) 6.
