My "usual routine" is doing not very much at all and staying firmly indoors, so I continue to do that when I have a cold - but with more huddling in quilts and feeling sorry for myself. I tend to take several times the RDA of vitamin C and drink hot ribena/lemsip a lot, and I press them on others who have colds in my presence.
Colds have always knocked me for a loop, possibly due to my rotten constitution: going out and doing things just isn't an option. occasionally I get a bit sniffly for no apparent reason, but that's not a *cold*. I think I had flu once when I was 18; I slept for a week and lost a stone in weight.
However! I am happy to report that over the last couple of years my susceptibility to colds seems to have dropped right off. The only thing I can think of to attribute it to is that I've realised how tiny Cardiff really is and started walking around it a whole lot - while this has increased my tolerance for walking and hills, I don't know that I'd describe it as "exercise".
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Date: 2007-10-18 09:48 pm (UTC)Colds have always knocked me for a loop, possibly due to my rotten constitution: going out and doing things just isn't an option. occasionally I get a bit sniffly for no apparent reason, but that's not a *cold*. I think I had flu once when I was 18; I slept for a week and lost a stone in weight.
However! I am happy to report that over the last couple of years my susceptibility to colds seems to have dropped right off. The only thing I can think of to attribute it to is that I've realised how tiny Cardiff really is and started walking around it a whole lot - while this has increased my tolerance for walking and hills, I don't know that I'd describe it as "exercise".