Help me get over this cold and keep the bugs away!!!

[babygrant]

My gallbladder removal surgery is here on the 30th and I have a bad cold. My lungs burn, I have a cough, sore throat, and I feel bubbles in my lungs when I breathe. If I have a cold at the time of my surgery it will be cancelled and I go BACK on the 2 1/2 month wait list, so I cannot be sick!!!

I'm on a multivitamin (flinstone chewables since the adult ones give me a really upset tummy), liquid B complex vitamins, and 1000 iU of vitamin D3. I could increase my vitamin c but then I get canker sores.

Of course I also do the hand washing, lots of sleep, healthy eating.

Any recommendations?

[Ravenlunatic]

Well, elderberries for sure. They are best eaten (or the syrup taken) as a preventative but, I think it helps with an immune boost to take them even if you are already sick with a cold.

So, elderberries (one teaspoon every morning, or like a tablespoon of syrup). I would drink echinacea tea, or some other 'immune booster'. An unorthodox remedy that you may want to try is to put an onion in the corner of your room (keeps the flu away) and if you already have sickness cut an onion in half, put it in a glass and stick a fork down in the onion before bed... in the morning toss the onion and repeat as necessary. I know this seeems odd, but hey, with surgery coming up it can't hurt.

Also take a lot of garlic, raw by mouth...

lots of water and actually, lots and lots of garlic in your case.

Good Luck.

[LadyCatherine185]

that actually sounds like you have pneumonia..

[SandyMom]

Ditto on the garlic - and if it were me I'd do a round of olive leaf. It works wonders for us. Or you could do a professional formula like Immunity Plus.
Good luck! I hope you don't have to postpone your surgery.