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Sweat Out a Sickness 2323 Responses
Last post: 11 months ago | Thread started: Jun 21, 12, 9:49 p.m.
- mikotondria3
Nah, sweat it out. Wrap up - your body is making you hot so the bugs can't reproduce or function as well. Help it out, and get toasty. Symptoms are very often just your body trying to fight the infection, don't ignore them or make them go away.


- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 9:52 p.m. – Permalink
- trooperbill
i wear layers of clothes to bed, drink plenty of water and have a delirious night... 60% of the time it works every time ;)


- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 10:05 p.m. – Permalink
- set
What made you change your mind?
I haven't been sick in 3 or 4 years, I usually go for run if I feel the beginnings of a cold creeping up. Never takes hold.
I feel it's less about sweating it out than getting fresh air in your lungs, oxygenating your body, getting the blood flowing..

- Dog-earJun 22, 12, 2:46 a.m. – Permalink
- monospaced
drink lots of water and sleep. sleep it off.

- Dog-earJun 22, 12, 5:26 a.m. – Permalink
- Fax_Benson
Triathlon a cold
Decathlon the Flu

- Dog-earJun 22, 12, 5:28 a.m. – Permalink
- d_rek
"Being hot / feverish and sweating is a byproduct of illness....not the cure."
He's right, all of those symptoms are by-products of your bodys auto-immune response - that is to say your brain is sort of trying to make your body a less hospitable place for infectious germs and foreign contaminants.
A fever will only subside only once the illness is gone or you take medication to stop your brain from telling your body to turn up the heat.
While it is OK to exercise if you have a garden-variety cold... you shouldn't really do it if you have a fever or signs of a more serious illness. Scientifically it's rather counter-productive to try to exercise when you are sick/have a fever, as your body is already working harder to combat illness, not to mention putting yourself at risk for dehydration or a possible relapse because you're overtaxing your body.


- Dog-earJun 22, 12, 6 a.m. – Permalink
- d_rek
"Being hot / feverish and sweating is a byproduct of illness....not the cure."
He's right, all of those symptoms are by-products of your bodys auto-immune response - that is to say your brain is sort of trying to make your body a less hospitable place for infectious germs and foreign contaminants.
A fever will only subside only once the illness is gone or you take medication to stop your brain from telling your body to turn up the heat.
While it is OK to exercise if you have a garden-variety cold... you shouldn't really do it if you have a fever or signs of a more serious illness. Scientifically it's rather counter-productive to try to exercise when you are sick/have a fever, as your body is already working harder to combat illness, not to mention putting yourself at risk for dehydration or a possible relapse because you're overtaxing your body.


- Dog-earJun 22, 12, 6 a.m. – Permalink
- vaxorcist
my guess... it just takes a random amount of time to go away no matter what,.... so if you try a variety of remedies, you'll think whatever you did last worked, when in fact, it just went away by itself after some time...
Reminds me of a pysch experiment, where the "close door" button in an elevator did nothing, the door would close automatically after a while....but people were told that if they tapped the door the right number of times, then hit the "close door" button the door would close when they had the right number of taps... people kept track of the taps and thought they had figured it out....

- Dog-earJun 22, 12, 6:04 a.m. – Permalink
- ohhhhhsnap
a Health and Wellness QBN thread.


- Dog-earJun 22, 12, noon – Permalink


