How many colds will I get this winter (HAR HAR HAR IT'S NOT WINTER YET)?

[Lorizael]

[onodera]

It's been winter for 16 days already.
No colds so far. I guess -22C is not a good temperature for germs.

[rah]

I misread the title as
How many cods will I get this winter, and I'm thinking, I didn't even know he fished. DOH

No colds for me yet. I get one every few years.

[MikeH]

So far I've already had 3 separate colds. Each lasted 1-2 weeks separated by 4-7 days of relatively good health.

Awesome. Eating 2000 mg of vitamin C pills a day.

Here's the evidence on how useful that is:

http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab000980.html

Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
The term 'the common cold' does not denote a precisely defined disease, yet the characteristics of this illness are familiar to most people. It is a major cause of visits to a doctor in Western countries and of absenteeism from work and school. It is usually caused by respiratory viruses for which antibiotics are useless. Other potential treatment options are of substantial public health interest.

Since vitamin C was isolated in the 1930s it has been proposed for respiratory infections, and became particularly popular in the 1970s for the common cold when (Nobel Prize winner) Linus Pauling drew conclusions from earlier placebo-controlled trials of large dose vitamin C on the incidence of colds. New trials were undertaken.

This review is restricted to placebo-controlled trials testing at least 0.2 g per day of vitamin C. Thirty trials involving 11,350 participants suggest that regular ingestion of vitamin C has no effect on common cold incidence in the ordinary population. It reduced the duration and severity of common cold symptoms slightly, although the magnitude of the effect was so small its clinical usefulness is doubtful. Nevertheless, in six trials with participants exposed to short periods of extreme physical or cold stress or both (including marathon runners and skiers) vitamin C reduced the common cold risk by half.

Trials of high doses of vitamin C administered therapeutically (starting after the onset of symptoms), showed no consistent effect on either duration or severity of symptoms. However, there were only a few therapeutic trials and their quality was variable. One large trial reported equivocal benefit from an 8 g therapeutic dose at the onset of symptoms, and two trials using five-day supplementation reported benefit. More therapeutic trials are necessary to settle the question, especially in children who have not entered these trials.

[MikeH]

I misread the title as
How many cods will I get this winter, and I'm thinking, I didn't even know he fished. DOH

No colds for me yet. I get one every few years.

The older you are, the more viruses you've already been exposed to, I guess there aren't many yet you haven't had!

[MOBIUS]

Translation: You're Old!

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[Kuciwalker]

Colds are for pussies.

This.

Also, invalid poll .

[rah]

Translation: You're Old!

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Even my feeble brain was able to figure that one out.

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See, KH? Your body isn't perfect.

Here's the evidence on how useful that is: [/url]

It's controversial whether vitamin C is directly useful in combating common cold, but it's cheap and you can't OD (unused vitamin C goes away with urine) on it so there's no reason NOT to take additional doses in form of pills, the worst case scenario is that you're wasting a very small amount of your money.

Looks like KH doesn't have a top-notch immunity system. It's getting better all the time with these common colds (well, unless he has AIDS).

[Guynemer]

Looks like KH doesn't have a top-notch immunity system. It's getting better all the time with these common colds (well, unless he has AIDS).

That's what he gets for letting Drake spoon him on those cold, lonely nights, so long ago.

[KrazyHorse]

Looks like KH doesn't have a top-notch immunity system.

Especially not now. It had been ~3 years since I had any illness before this season.

Plus I'm fat and weak. I haven't been the the gym in 3+ months. Didn't gain any weight, but I dropped about 5 lbs of muscle and replaced it with 5 lbs of fat.

**** ****ing physics.

[MrFun]

Especially not now. It had been ~3 years since I had any illness before this season.

Plus I'm fat and weak. I haven't been the the gym in 3+ months. Didn't gain any weight, but I dropped about 5 lbs of muscle and replaced it with 5 lbs of fat.

**** ****ing physics.

Merry Christmas

[MOBIUS]

Even my feeble brain was able to figure that one out.

I PHded it as CG protocol demands...

Sheesh!

[rah]

Yeah, like I'm supposed to know CG protocols. There's probably more traffic at the boinking panda site.
Sheesh

[MOBIUS]

Quality, not quantity...

Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh!