BS: Lingering Head Cold...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 10:08 AM

"Real men" who "work through" a head cold just share it with all the innocent by-standers in their lives.

Not fair! Not fair!

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: bobad
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 10:07 AM

A snort of 0.1% Oxymetazoline will unclog those naries forthwith.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,concerned
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 10:01 AM

only in america..real men work through it..stop bleedin wingeing!!

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 08:18 AM

Go see yer doc!

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 07:27 AM

Close the disengaged nostril with a finger. Dip the other nostril -- not finger -- into your little dish of warm salted water.

I use a little bowl about the size of the palm of my hand.

Yesterday, when I was at the drugstore waiting for a prescription, I whiled away the time perusing the shelves of cold nostrums. Among them I saw a saline aerosol with a long plastic nozzle obviously designed for sluicing the nose -- great idea, if you don't happen to have a little bowl.

If the P-Vine is coming down with bronchitis, she needs to see a doc and get an antibiotic. A sinus infection -- ditto, like Eliza says.

As a practising, card-carrying asthmatic, I consider myself something of a snot guru. The thing you need to do is check the colour of the gunk (disgusting, I know, but there it is). Yellow or green sputum means pus, which means bacterial disease. White or clear sputum means no bacterial disease, but continuing irritation in the bronchi and/or lungs. A constant headache focussed in the forehead and/or around the eyes means infected sinuses.

I have tried syrups with guaifenesin in them, but Mucinex is new to me; perhaps it's not available in Canada. The syrups never do me much good, possibly because the gunk factory in my lungs never lets up.

Now you know everything I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 06:44 AM

Infected sinuses need antibiotics.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 10:57 PM

Ebs, read my post.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 10:50 PM

"Close one nostril with your finger, and dip the other into the water, then sniff gently, pulling a little water up into your poor, clogged schnoz." Charmion

How does one do this, Charmion? I first read it as dipping one's finger into water and sniffing, but upon re-reading, it sounds like you're saying to dip the other nostril into the water. ?

How? A large shallow basin? I cannot picture this...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 10:12 PM

WHAT a bunch of winers/whinners/wineers complainers. Jaysus suffering jaysus, relax. Smoke grass. Your sinuses will still be in moderate pain but you won't give a shit! Work with me on this.
9

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 10:02 PM

I can't do antihistamine either, jeri... Stops me up and gives me headaches....Sudifed does that to me...

We'll try the Mucinex... I've done steam... The P-Vine hasn't... I been on her to try it but she hasn't done it... I used to put Vicks Vapo-rub in the water and that worked fairly well... Think I need to buy some of that and try it...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 09:56 PM

There's stuff that makes your schozz less stuffy, like sudafed or whatever the non-meth-related stuff that doesn't make you hper substitute is.
There are antihistamines that reduce histamines which cause symptoms
And there are snot-liquifiers (the guaifenesin).

You may find product that have all three and more, such as cough suppressants. You don't have to always use just one of them, but (and OF COURSE I know you know this) read labels. It might make sense to buy some product that has the right combo of things.

Me, I can't take anything (antihistamine) that "dries up" my runny nose. Last time I tried it (after telling the doc I could NOT take it and him telling me to "try") it (friggin' Actifed) worked for about 20 minutes and my nose slammed shut for the rest of the day. Afrin nasal spray does that too. Other people have no problems. Me, it's as if somebody shoved a pair of socks up my nose... with the feet still in them.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 09:19 PM

Actually, I am familiar with "Mucinex"... I might even have some stashed around somewhere... I have been using a pill form of generic "nasal decongestant"... And so has the P-Vine... I was just tellin' her that I thought we needed a stronger decongestant...

Mucinex!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 09:13 PM

THAT would deal with our sinuses, for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 09:03 PM

Thanks, Jeri... I'll round some up tomorrow for the P-Vine...

Yo, brucie... I don't have any rum but I got moonshine... Will that do???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:57 PM

The guaifenesin name-brand I couldn't remember is "Mucinex". It's also in some cough syrups (such as Robitussin), and it's good to not over-dose on the stuff.
My father had chronic bronchitis + emphysema, and back in the 70s, he took a guaifenesin syrup several times every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:54 PM

I agree with CET. Steam, interspersed with 1 1/2 oz shots of rum. Then steam.

Having tried this as a teenager, please believe me when I tell you you can give yourself a serious heat rash if you get pissed and fall face-first in the water. Put your hands in the water. Then you'll look good even as your hands are bandaged.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:45 PM

Me??? I slept for two days when I first got it and taking naps every day trying to shake the lingering effects...

The P-Vine??? Sounds like it's movin' into her lungs but she has a history with bronchitis...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:38 PM

Lethal Midline Granuloma

a really good selection of causes here

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:37 PM

Sorry. Must have lumped it together with some other stuff you started. It's not something that I'd think to start a thread about, but some suggestions might well enter the realm of "folklore".

Sleeping a lot helped.
Soup helped.
Drink way more water than you feel like drinking.
Also, try not to sniff or blow your nose. Later on, you'll get that viscous snot that's an awful lot like rubber cement and creeps down the back of your throat from your poor sinuses.
Guaifenesin (in cough syrup and that pill whose commercial has a little mucous family and all their friends partying in people's passages until the victim gets wise and takes the pill) works pretty good, but you have to drink water so the stuff can re-hydrate your snot so you can snort it or hack it out.
Netti pots would help, although I've never own one and use the saline spray instead to rinse.

About the only thing you can do is treat whatever symptoms you have, and just generally take care of yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:33 PM

Steam, Bobert.

Fill a large bowl with boiling water and snuff up the steam. If you have some oil of wintergreen about the house, add a drop to the bowl.

If that helps, you might consider moving on to the advanced class: Snuffling Salt Water. This requires a small dish of warm salted water, or you might try a Neti-Pot if you feel the need for purpose-built kit. Close one nostril with your finger, and dip the other into the water, then sniff gently, pulling a little water up into your poor, clogged schnoz. Don't drown. Blow it out into the sink and repeat on the other side. Do this three or four times a day.

Don't forget to clean the sink ...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:19 PM

Well, gol danged, Jeri...

Asking folks for a little advice on home remedies ain't exactly trying to get attention...

My situation is that even though I'm kinda in a stabilized situation with congestion that the P-Vine is a tad worse... Going to doctors sometimes ain't the answer... Sometimes folks can help one another...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:13 PM

I had something that started the night after Thanksgiving (22 Nov). Started as a sore throat, went to the sneezing/nose stuff, went to a minor cough thing. The worst thing about it was that it totally killed my energy, and I'm just now starting to feel like doing anything.

I did not, however, start a thread.

Mainly, I didn't start a thread because I was not jonesing for attention. I considered who'd read my message and came to the conclusion no one really would gave a rat's ass, and I KNOW where one might find sympathy every single time one were to look.

Had I felt better, I might have gone on a worm hunt and made myself a sandwich...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 08:06 PM

Backatcha, Bobster. I know where your heart is, and that means more to me than your writings. Always has, always will. You've ever had a kind word for people, and it don't get better than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 07:54 PM

Hey, if ya' can't piss off yer friends now and then then, hey, who can ya' piss off???

I love ya', brucie!!!

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 07:51 PM

I am, and you just pissed me off on another thread. To cure the head cold:

1) Do not catch cold
2) If you do, suffer in silence
3) Sympathy is in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

Yer friend, 999.

Subject: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 07:48 PM

I thought it was just me... Started out as common head cold which usually is done in 5 days... The worst part passed but the sinus is still congested...

Seems I've been hearing a lot of folks out there with similar symptoms...

Any Catters out there suffering???

B~