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Colds and a lot of them!

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Us asthmatics, are we more prone to colds? I have adult onset asthma and since diagnoses I get an obscene amount of colds despite eating well, taking vits etc. I swear I get more colds in my thirties compared to when I was a child! Surely this should be the other way around.

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Yea it should. I find a course of Vitamin C and Zinc helps. The ones which taste horrible are best if you actually have a cold.

I'd take a multivitamin for a while too, but not all the time. Get them all in your food? Do not believe it!

Get a book of Food tables and work it out for yourself.

Good Luck

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try echinacea it works by avoiding the cold or if you do get it then it seems to cure it quicker but it has kept me at work for years. A colleague would hand them around like sweets the first sneeze or cough that came from anyone she would then instruct the person to invest in a bottle as she did not need their germs she would say in a jovial but serious way and to be fair it did keep the office fairly germ free...

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