COLDS - inevitable?

[butterfly]

Hi! I'm feeling pretty lousy today with yet another cold! I'm getting them about one a month at the moment and always after caring for a ream of snotty children!

I know you can't send home children with colds but likewise I don't want to take days off for colds either! Are they inevitable as a childminder or do some of you manage to ward off the dreaded bugs with some sort of vitamin supplement?

I'll try anything!

[AliceK]

I'm the same. I've had what feels like a permanent cold for the past 6 weeks. I've just started to take a multivitamin / mineral drink to see if that will help. I hate feeling low all the time :(

xxxx

[Kimmy050983]

pure vitamin c powder (holland and barrett)! and cod liver oil (vitamin d is soo important in winter)! I take both since weeks and had one cold that lasted 1.5 days.

[miss mopple]

It's taken a few years but I seem to have built up a resistance now :thumbsup:

I don't take any meds, but when all the children are full of them I do burn an antibacterial oil in my burner. Helps clear stuffy noses and seems to help ward the bugs away :)

[Pipsqueak]

enchineacia (sp???), vitamins
lots of handwashing, disinfecting etc

[sarah707]

I take echinacea (one week on and one week off) and Vitamin C and zinc effervescent tablets all through the winter.

I have a bit of a sore throat today but I think I'm fighting it so far.

I hope you feel better soon! xx

[Trouble]

i think im amune??? as everyone seems to have them but me

but i do wash my hands all the time

i think thats the key:thumbsup:

[Kimmy050983]

http://www.patrickholford.com/index.php/blog/blogarticle/855/

might help :)