True or False: An Airborne a Day Keeps the Sickness Away

How timely. I just tried Airborne (well, the cheaper Safeway brand) for the first time w/ this last cold/flu thing I had. I'd like to say that it helped, but really I have no idea. I think the illness still had to run it's course.

I guess I'm glad to know it's not all that it's cracked up to be, cuz that little bottle sure was pricey!

In the past I have liked to use Emergen-C (another fizzy vitamin drink - strawberry flavor tastes better to me) when I felt a cold coming on, but this time just figured I'd try Airborne and see what all the hype was about.

Thx for sharing this.

Amy
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I take it every day, and I think it's great for lots of stuff. My kids are almost all asthmatics, and fish oil if really helpful at strengthening their lung function.

I do use the Zicam a lot - working in a school and having tons of kids I feel like I'm constantly surrounded by sick kids.

I'm beginning to sound like a walking pharmacopeia.. but I take fish oil, too. Actually I take a blend of fish, flax and borage for all the Omegas (3, 6, 9). It's supposed to help with my family history of heart disease and AD. If it boosts the immune system, even better!

Debra
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Definitely worth a try. I'll add those to my daily vitamins.

Kalyn Denny
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Omega 3 fish oil capsules. Trader Joe's sells a good one.

When I lived in San Francisco, my doctor, who was on the board of the National Institute of Health (NIH) strongly recommended me taking 1000 mg a day to help boost my immune system. He told me it was the only thing out there with strong double-blind studies that proved to be effective in strengthening one's immune system.

Now when I feel a cold at my heels, I just load up on fish oil. It's been remarkably effective at stopping them early.

Elise Bauer
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I never tried any of these. But after this winter with its endless parade of brutal colds, I’m intrigued. I used to worry about unnecessarily taking OTC meds, so I silently suffered through countless colds and headaches, until a doc told me last year “why wouldn’t you want to feel perfect?”. She’s a strong believer in using whatever legal means available to us to make ourselves feel better. I haven’t had a bad headache since, so maybe it’s time to start treating my colds as well.

Vered DeLeeuw
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I've taken Airborne with me on the plane for years now. I don't know if I'd say it was the Airborne that did the trick, but there's something to be said for washing down a decent multi-vitamin with plenty of (fizzy) water as a method for avoiding the on-flight ick.Yeah, it's an overpriced vitamin cocktail, but it's one of the ways I've spoiled myself to get through the horrors of flying coach.

Plus, I kinda like the taste. There, I said it.

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Airborne is meant to prevent colds, not cure them. (Try Zicam for that.)

You say it doesn't work; I say every time a child sneezes on me at school I walk over the sink,mix one up, and drink it down. Since I've been doing that I've had far fewer colds. Maybe it's just the power of suggestions, but when you work in a germ-filled environment like I do, you'll try anything that works.

Kalyn Denny
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I used to have the cold turns into bronchitis turns into pneumonia thing every winter. My family dr. finally told me to take an expectorant at the first sign of chest congestion and keep taking it for a month.

At that time, it meant takin Robitussin cough medicine every 4 hours. Yeah, like I did that! Then they came out with the guafensin in gel caps every 6 hours and it helped. No more pneumonia. With Mucinex and 12 dosing, no more bronchitis.

those who follow on my twitter know.. I push the Mucines like I own stock in the company, but I don't.

Debra
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And not only will I buy it, but I will take it, too. I became a believer after another really bad illness, (known in my house as the Horrendous Birthday Plague), and a doc in a box gave me some high dose samples. It saved me from sure death during a trip to SC.

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Honestly, I've never tried AirBorne.. don't know about it.

However, I have escaped the hordes of ugly viral attacks overwhelming everyone else this winter. And it's first winter in years that I've remembered to take echinacea every day.

So my two winter miracle drugs: echinacea to keep from getting sick, and muxinex to help keep a sick from becoming bronchitis/pneumonia ugly when you do get sick.

Debra
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