I am sick and it feels like there (Page 2) tina_time7: I don't know how dry my air is but my throat doesn't feel sore. I wonder how I could check how dry the air is but I think in winter it is more dry if my memory serves me. OK see ya if you got to go. tina_time7: I do feel better than before - like I said, but I want to maintain it and make the cough go completely away too.  CookieCatt: Usually when the weather report says the humidity is near zero, it's pretty dry. Im in Detroit, and humidity here is usually 50 percent or more in autumn due to the rain. Lack of rain brings down humidity. When you can get a shock or spark running your shoes on a carpet and then touch a metal door knob , usually this indicates zero humidity too CookieCatt: Yeah cough going away .. I know it can take awhile.. a friend of mine has had his for 2 months.. it could be allergies like tree mold etc with the rainy autumn weather.. maybe an air purifier will help tina_time7: OK, but my cough started after I had a worrisome experience and then I got an earache and then I went outside after my hair was still a little bit wet - on the bottom though. tina_time7: another term for humidity is moisture? also it says the moisture is 60% now here. I don't know if that is close to zero. CookieCatt: Ohhhhh interesting... You know, I think stress can change allergies.. Like when my dad passed away my allergies for pets were less strong.. which was good.. I was able to babysit my mom's cat when she was going out of town.. and my grass allergies went away.. Anxiety and stress can definitely make changes to the body I think, based on my own personal experience. CookieCatt: I forgot that it's reported differently in Ontario. I can drive just 15 minutes and be in another world (Ontario), which i used to visit often tina_time7: I see, American also felt like another world to me when I visited back in 2014, but so did Ontario when I visited a place far from Toronto. Have you been to New York City? One person living and working in the greater Toronto area said it's his dream to live there since it is everything. I suggested he try living in downtown Toronto first since he doesn't but likes that apparently. CookieCatt: Yeah usually the heating won't.. to measure it some barometers you can buy will include a hydrometer for moisture/humidity. On Amazon for unde 20 dollars there's this ThermoPro TP50 Digital Hygrometer Indoor Thermometer Room Thermometer and Humidity Gauge with Temperature Monitor CookieCatt: I have a friend in New York City and she has lived there 20! years and seems to love it. I can imagine Toronto would be similar in some ways, as there's a subway system. I haven't been to Toronto since 2014, and have been many times before. Ill probably be lost on my next visit haha CookieCatt: Yeah I can understand.. Toronto is very diverse.. other cities around Ontario are not as diverse.. so I get what you mean. tina_time7: But I think Toronto is only downtown and some parts apart from downtown, otherwise it is called North York, Mississauga, and so on. Come to think of it now I am confused since North York is part of Toronto so why is it called something else? And then there is the greater toronto area which includes places or maybe suburbs specifically outside of Toronto but for some reason still a part of the Toronto family it seems. Sigh, maybe another time though as I am getting tired.  solittle: Sometimes a magnifying lens can be helpful for reading the small print on labels. See if you have a magnifyer somewhere, even just a little plastic one. I'm guessing that your Vitamin C is the capsule kind, with powder inside. I once bought a container of Vitamin C powder thinking it would be easier to dissolve and drink. But I found that it seemed to go through me quicker in that form, so I don't buy the powder anymore. I buy the tablets, that are in solid form, and then dissolve them as I described above, by leaving them in a little bit of water for a couple hours. If you have taken more Vitamin C than your body needs at the moment, then you may experience diarrhea. But it's very unlikely that you will ever take that much, especially if you are sick because then your body needs more. If you do experience diarrhea, that's simply your body saying that you have taken enough for now, and so you know to stop. Since this water-soluble vitamin does flush out of your system in a few hours, you may still find yourself needing to take some more after 6-12 hours. But for the moment, listen to your body, and know that you don't need to take any more in the present. What I have tried to explain in this thread is all true, but the only way you will learn for yourself that it is true is by trying it. I can only provide you with information, I can't force you to follow the advice I offer. When I tell you that I am never sick more than 2 days, if I have Vitamin C, that is simply the truth. When I tell you that most of these medications designed to suppress coughs, sneezing, and phlegm, do this by supressing your immune system, that is simply the truth. When you are coughing and sneezing and full of phlegm, that is your body crying out that there are invasive micro-organisms it is desperately trying to get rid of. If you take medications with antihistamines and other cortisols to suppress these symptoms of your body trying to get rid of these micro-parasites, the medications may succeed in suppressing the coughing and sneezing etc, but they do so by suppresssing your immune system. Your immune system is there to keep you healthy. When you shut down your immune system, you are bound to remain sick, for weeks or months. If you learn to give your immune system the amounts of Vitamin C it requires to create antibodies that will get rid of parasitic micro-organisms, you will get over being sick in a day or two, and once those micro-organisms are gone your body won't need to keep coughing and sneezing and producing mucus. Without sufficient supplies of Vitamin C, your body isn't able to produce enough anti-bodies to keep the parasitic organisms from multiplying. I don't know exactly how that works, I just know, from long personal experience, that it does. (Edited by solittle) solittle: I'm willing to bet that your capsules are better than taking nothing. I would use them up, and buy some tablet form Vitamin C to use after they are all gone. tina_time7: 30 x 1,000 sounds like a whole lot when online it said safe is up to 5 or 10 000 or so - forget exactly. solittle: How much your body needs depends on how sick you are. Yes, that is a whole lot, And it is what will cure you when you are very sick. The biggest "danger" from taking more Vitamin C than your body happens to need, is brief diarrhea. If you experience that, and you listen to what your body is telling you, you will know that it is time to stop taking this vitamin for the next 6-12 hours. It will flush out on its own. Linus Pauling, who won the Nobel prize for his early work on Vitamin C,said "Vitamin C is not a drug, it is a food." People will also tell you that you can die from drinking too much water. But how likely is that to happen? How likely are you to drink more water than your body can cope with, and then go on drinking still more beyond that? 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