About once a year I get a cold from my wife after about a week
This time I tried to use all of the ways which I suspected might stop a cold
When having a health problem during the past few decade I try everything
– I call it my shotgun approach
They worked !!!
| change clothes | eliminate cold viruses |
| Take 18 mg Zinc every 2 hours | RCT conclusion |
| Take Sodium ascorbate every 12 hours | Wife switched us from Vitamin C (which might cause GERD problems) |
| Eat more food | Pause my weight-loss diet |
| Wash bedclothes | eliminate cold viruses |
| Use air cleaners in 2 rooms | eliminate cold viruses – they have hepa filters, UV, and ionization eliminate cold viruses The three types we use Sost $50 - $130 on Amazon |
| 2 sun naps | Feel benefit of Vitamin D in hours instead of days |
| Topical Vitamin D | Feel benefit of Vitamin D in hours instead of days Cream - commerical or make it yourself |
| Vitamin D mouthwash | Feel benefit of Vitamin D in hours instead of days Just dissolve a capsule of vitamin D in about 1/4 teaspoon of water Use as mouthwash for 5 minutes, then swallow |
This combination worked for me.
6 of the techniques have been proven by RCT to stop/prevent colds
I probably only needed a subset
Interestingly, her cold stopped too.
She had taken a 50,000 IU capsule of vitamin D - not fast acting
in addition to washing bedclothes, air filters, etc.
See also VitaminDWiki
- Overview Colds and flu and Vitamin D has the following
- Respiratory infections (RTI) cut in half by 20,000 IU weekly vitamin D if initially deficient – RCT March 2015
- Number of people to treat to prevent 1 case of flu: Vitamin D 4, Vaccination 40 – Feb 2017
- RF from mobile phones reduced immune response in rats, unless they had vitamin D – Sept 2016
- Vitamin D improves a child’s immune system – can now be claimed in Europe – Sept 2016
- Zinc and Vitamin D
- Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015
- Getting Vitamin D into your body describes fast-acting forms
Vitamin D going thru the gut takes about a day to become activated
Fast-acting Vitamin D takes about 4 hours to become activated
Fast-acting is needed for medical emergencies, treating cold, treating flu, etc,
- Topical - cream, spray, oil on skin
- Sublingual vitamin D
- Mouth-wash - put powder of 50,000 IU capsules in 1/4 teaspoon of water
Swallow when done - after a few minutes
Alternately - use Nanoemulsion form as a mouthwash - Inhaled - via lungs
- Semi-activated Vitamin D
- is fast, but slight over-dosing might cause Calcium problems