Winter Ailments

In these frenetic days we stumble into work or on chores when we are almost dropping with tiredness and sickness. It's madness. The best thing to do if you are feeling ill is to wrap up warm and take to your bed in good old-fashioned style.

A couple of days of rest with comforting sickbed food and soothing drinks will probably sort you out. However, if you stagger on with normal life your cold might get worse and deepen, perhaps even turning into something more serious like a chest infection. Then you could end up on antibiotics and perhaps have to take a week or more off work. Is it really worth it?

The other point that we tend to forget or ignore is that when we stoically battle on with normal life with a cold or flu we are most likely to pass it on to our work colleagues, our friends, the people we bump into on the bus, the train or the shops. Keep your cold to yourself and keep to your bed in the warm is my advice and weary, overworked GPs would, I'm quite sure, agree.

Copy by natural health guru Jane Alexander.

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