Summer Cold & Flu

For the past week, I'd been down with cold and flu, a bad chesty cough, phlegm, mucus up from nostril down to my throat with slight fever.

It’s bad enough to have a cold in the summer, but to make things worse, they often last longer and are a nastier strain.  Something about it is awful and insidious.

I couldn’t sleep well, eat well, enjoy doing the things I love the most.

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Why summer colds are worse 

The common cold’s typical headache, hacking cough, congestion and low fever.  “Summer colds just seem to lurk in the background … and just go on and on and on.”  Another summer-specific factor that can up the odds for colds is constant exposure to re-circulated air, which can dry out the lining of the nostrils, giving an open port to viruses. Such is the case in both air-conditioned buildings and in airplanes full of vacationing travelers.

Prevention

So how can you prevent a cold from ruining summer fun?  Tips:

• Wash your hands often and keep a stash of hand sanitizer handy in pocket or purse.
• Get plenty of sleep to bolster your immune system.
• Stay well-hydrated.
• Eat a balanced diet.
• Use common sense and avoid contact with sick people.

I guess one thing I did not do to prevent it is to keep myself hydrate during the time I was in China.  Well, frankly it’s not easy to find a decent reliable mineral water to consume along the way, I was skeptical all the time when I was on recent China trip, couldn’t find any Ganten’s or Watsons’s brand and didn’t want to risk to drink some weird-looking water bottle unknown mineral water which doesn’t even look convincing.  That’s how I got myself dehydrated with the humid baking hot summer.

So I went straight to a doctor immediate once I touched down.

Doctor gave me these:-

Amoxicillin 500mg as Antibiotics

Loratadine 10mg for cold

Bisolvon 8mg for coughs, colds or mucus

Bisolvon 8mg doesn’t works for me even though I read some sites that it claimed to be best cough remedy – world best medicine for treatment of coughs and excess mucus.  After 3 days and got it changed to Fluimucil 600mg.

Fluimucil - (Zambon) 600mg soluble 4 tablets for phlegm

I'm getting much better after been living under the weather for almost past 2 weeks… yay… back to my usual self, so do expect more updates from me.

Readers – I hope none of you caught a summer bug like I do.  Do share if you know any prevention or any tips on beating the summer flu.