Do you take medicine when you catch a cold?

It's hand washing. It keeps me healthy. I always wash my hands when I come home. I always wash or use sanitizer or both before I eat. I always wash my hands after using the bathroom. In public bathrooms, I don't touch the bathroom handles or knobs with my clean hands. I don't wear outside shoes in the house. I never touch any body opening when I'm outside of the house. Body openings are eyes, mouth, nose, private areas. Well, not putting hands on private areas in public is obviously a no no, but people constantly touch their eyes mouth and nose, introducing germs to their body. It might sound as if I'm OCD, but my doctor says I'm not. He said I just have good hygiene. OCD ~~~ Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It's a mental illness listed in the DSM-V.

Woops I made a typo. I meant DSM IV.

How can you do that CatLady?14 years!I really envy you!Do you exercise every day?Or inherited good health even from birth?

I only buy vitamins and calcium tablets for my old parents. By the way,your picture is a photo of building blocks?so creative!

All we do is to make us recover soon,so if taking medicine is effective to you it's also a good idea too.Headache is hard to stand as I have got for many years.

Earlier preventions is really helpful,but when you have got everything seems useless.

Nearly every chemical medicine has side-effect.Our body has its own ability to deal with the little illness,but when we break the balance of our body such as bad habits,over tired,not sleep well or other reasons,then we'll get sick. There is a joke about the medicine,a boy asked his mother"How does the medicine know where to go?"Yes,the medicine cannot know which caused our illness or the root.You have make a wise decision to turn to a regular life and devote sincere love to the god,maybe you can do some exercises too.Hope you will get well soon.

There is a chinese saying as same as what you have said"There is more or less poisonous as a medicine".

We do a little different but similar with you,bisides drinking water,we'll rub the cutted garlic on palm and arch of foot until it's getting hot.If you are adult then a skin scraping therapy is also a good way.

You are clever to take a bottle with you,as we know we don't like drinking water or eat anything when we catch a cold,so I often forget to drink water.

Is it fit to the child?not take cough syrups and just let it go? It's much easier to cure the child's cold just like drinking much better and other ways,but when my daughter have a cough I give her syrups too.I have thought syrup can do good to the cough.

Yes,we must ask for the help of doctor if we cannot deal with it by ourselves,otherwise the doctors will be out of work:)

If you like take medicine it's better not always eat one kind of medicine,as our body will be resistant to it.

You have a good health jacoo,as I usually get well after a week.So lucky you are!

It's good for us to take precautions but the sometimes the medicine to the cold somehow likes placebo not good medicine,that's the reason I don't like to take medicine.

My husband's best friend also take expensive medicine for depression,but we all think a well regulated life and work will do better to the depression because he has stopped to work for many years.But as we don't have the disease so we can only suggest but don't know whether a work can be really much better to him.

When I first took my baby to the hospital,there were so many babies in the waiting room,and I was wondered whether my baby would be infected by them and geing worse,as I have seen a healthy boy came with his mother(who maybe come to see a patient)running in the waiting room then he got ill the second day. I usually drink cool boiled water,next time I'll try the warm water.

Wow,so many ones choose drinking water instead of taking medicine. once I got severe headache and I have doing acupucture for a whole month,it's really a horrible experience and I am still fear of the hospital so much even before entering:)

Natual ways can only cure little diseases,so whether we like or not,we must turn to mordern medicine sometimes,especially when we are getting old in the future.

You are right,a child of my relatives have used to go the hospitals even it's only a little cold,then whatever cold or cough or fever,he has to take liquid infusions in the hospital and common pills have nothing to do with him.Maybe his body has been dependent on the expensive ones.