Does anyone else seem to get sick.. A LOT?

I noticed that since we started eating a lot of green stuff like broccoli and green beans that my kids get sick a lot less. Or they are sick for less time. Except my one son that won't eat his vegetables. He's sick all the time. Is it coincidence? Don't know!

I'm 30 and I used to get sick like that at least once a month, until I started realizing what was happening with my body and now I try to fix it before it gets too bad so that I only get sick like that once every 6 months or so. I realized that my issues lie with getting water in my ears, which doesn't dissipate, and eventually turns into a sinus infection/eye infection/bronchitis/and ear infections.

I also feel that eating better boosts my immune system.

I suffer from allergies and chronic sinusitis and I don't have a particular time of the year it bothers me. I do get allergy shots every other week. I do have a nasal nebulizer as well. If you don't have one, you can get a Netti Pot or something like that, just make sure to use distilled water. But this month has been a weird month with that. I haven't had post nasal drip in years and had it twice so far this month. I have to be careful when I have sinus/allergy flair ups because it can also flair up my asthma.

All I can say is build up your immune system with Vitamin C and D for the flu/cold season is definitely here. Wash your hands or keep hand sanitizer around. I keep Lysol in my office, so I spray down my office through out the day because you never know what other people are bringing in from the outside.

I know it hasn't been proven by science or whatever, but I swear by Airborne. Whenever someone in my office is sick or I am in big crowds of potentially plague carrying people, I drink it. And I'm rarely sick.

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I think the frequency of washing your hands and whether you touch your face a lot has more to do with the frequency of getting sick than eating and exercising.

You don't eat enough.

Some days, you only log 400 calories. I would venture a guess that your body is so preoccupied by lack of food that it doesn't have time to waste fighting off a cold.

I eat a moderate deficit, TDEE-20%. I eat mostly healthy with some junk and workout 3-5 days a week. I'm hardly ever sick an when I am, it doesn't hit me that hard. For example, my husband and I both have had colds in the last week. His hit him like a mack truck....mine was just a slightly irritating sore throat in the mornings and one or two days of a runny nose.

You can pop vitamins all day long, but it's not going to make up for the fact that you are eating a VLCD.

Any day that looks like I've only eaten 400 cals - I had gotten busy and didn't log my food the rest of the day.

A lot of days, I get busy with homelife and don't get a chance to log dinner. Everything before 4:30 - I'm religious with (because I'm at a desk or around my phone). But after that, it's up in the air. I average between 1600 to 2000 calories a day, on average.

Anyone else posting comments on this (which I truly, truly appreciate), me not eating enough is not a relivent factor. I eat PLENTY.

My mistake. I was only looking at the data/information provided when trying to give you an answer.

I haven't been sick in over 18months. I also don't have seasonal allergies anymore. As a person who has had chronic bronchitis and is asthmatic, this whole lifestyle change has been a blessing.

Good luck!

Yes!!!! I;'ve been wondering what the hell is wrong with me! I never get sick, not more than once or twice a year with just a small cold!

I go through cycles. I'll go 3-4 years and almost never get sick... maybe just one mild cold in the span of a year. But then I will have a rotten year where I get sick over and over and over again.

This is that year for me. I had a mild cold in September. Then I got sick again in mid-October and never really got over it. I kept fighting it, and would feel better for a day or two, then slip back into feeling rotten. I finally got to the doctor, and it turned out I had walking pneumonia and needed two rounds of antibiotics to knock it out of my system.

I spent the entire Thanksgiving break (my workplace was closed the whole week) sleeping and healing. I am FINALLY feeling like myself again.

Used to be sick ALL THE TIME. I stopped going to the strip club, and now the only itch i get is, well to eat.

- Zinc... interesting. I've taken Airborne and Emergen-C when I felt a cold coming on. Is zinc a normal suppliment that one can take on a regular basis?


You will find it in some cough drops, you should not take it all the time, but it's good if you feel a cold coming on...similar to when you would take Airborne.

It seems that no matter what I do, if someone within 10 miles of me has strep, I will get it as well.

But I have noticed that when I go several days with ****ty sleep patterns, I get sick shortly thereafter.

I know it hasn't been proven by science or whatever, but I swear by Airborne. Whenever someone in my office is sick or I am in big crowds of potentially plague carrying people, I drink it. And I'm rarely sick.

This. I swear by Airborne as well.

I know it hasn't been proven by science or whatever, but I swear by Airborne. Whenever someone in my office is sick or I am in big crowds of potentially plague carrying people, I drink it. And I'm rarely sick.

100% agree, this stuff is great for prevention and when you have symptoms, it doesn't give you the groggy feelings other medicines do.

That's because it doesn't ~do~ anything.
There is no evidence that is has any efficacy at all. The company that makes it has been sued successfully for false claims.
The plural of anecdote is not data.

Then don't use it if it doesn't have your research based seal of approval. But since it seems to work for me and many of my friends, I'll continue to use it and recommend it.

Enjoy your expensive vitamins. Careful with the vitamin A:

http://cspinet.org/new/200803032.html

“There’s no credible evidence that what’s in Airborne can prevent colds or protect you from a germy environment,” said CSPI senior nutritionist David Schardt, who reviewed Airborne’s claims. “Airborne is basically an overpriced, run-of-the-mill vitamin pill that’s been cleverly, but deceptively, marketed.”

Airborne’s basic formula contains Vitamins A, C, and E, as well as other nutrients common in multivitamins; the amino acids glutamine and lysine, and an “herbal extract proprietary blend.” CSPI cautions that Airborne may provide too much vitamin A, since just two pills provide 10,000 IU—the maximum safe level for a day—and the package directs customers to take three per day.