Catch ~ We kick colds, etc. very quickly in our house. We keep a canister of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C powder) on hand and add it to our water a couple times a day at 2250 milligrams per 1/2 tsp. When the body is sick, it will take in a LOT of vitamin C!

I am currently fighting something myself...and the vitamin C is kicking it! I had over 8,000 mg yesterday. As long as your bowels don't start to gurgle, you are at the right level for what you need. If they start to gurgle, cut back to a smaller dose.

That's what works for us anyway. I'm not a doctor. Just an experienced mom that has read up on Vitamin C.

Vitamin C seems to help with fatigue too. Bonus!

A cold has caused a flare-up of symptoms (psuedo-exacerbation), but never a full blown attack for me. It is only if the cold results in bronchitis or a sinus infection that the "infection" has triggered a real attack.

As Cheryl pointed out, be sure to treat infection with antibiotics, if one crops up.

My daughter very seldom gets a cold, and we were talking about that while she came down with a "cold" in mid-Sept. We noticed a pattern though, and it seems to happen every year at the start of school. These colds often last several weeks too, then no sickness for another year.

I took her to the clinic this time because she couldn't shake the cough, and his first question was "does this seem to happen every Sept?". "YES, it does!" we said, and he asked whether she has asthma? While she has many allergies, and sports induced asthma, she has shown no other indication of having asthma on an ongoing basis.

Apparently many kids (and adults) suffer from asthma much worse when the weather starts to turn cooler (which is at the start of the school year here). He said they don't know what the reason is, but they are always inundated with kids who "appear" to have a "cold" in Sept. It is not a cold though . . .

He started her on a the two types of puffers, and it STILL took two weeks to mostly stop the cough. There were occasions, even after that, that she had to pull out the "emergency" puffer to stop the coughing . . . but it ALWAYS worked to do that and cough medicine hadn't been working at all.

So, if you are recently in a colder weather transitionary period . . . asthma might be worth considering. Just something to consider...

Cherie

I'm in the same group. Slight cough, froggy voice, stuffy nose and running out of tissues!

'blame it on the weather' is an often repeated phrase in my area.

Niko