Sweat Out a Sickness
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- dbloc
I always thought you could sweat out a cold/ flu sickness. Guess it's just an old wives tale.
I remember back in the day going for a run when I started feeling sick to try and get rid of it. Little did I know it was probably actually making it worse.
- mikotondria30
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.
- Saying that, don't go for a run - you feel tired because your body wants you to rest.mikotondria3
- it NEEDS to restmonospaced
- CALLES0
As you get older you change sweating it off to rub one off
- trooperbill0
i wear layers of clothes to bed, drink plenty of water and have a delirious night... 60% of the time it works every time ;)
- MrT0
Hot toddies work for me. Or maybe I just get smashed and forget about the cold...
- honest0
increase your endorphins – great food and sauna sex (no alcohol tho)
- ********0
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..
- looked it up on the google and doctors recommend not runningdbloc
- fate0
Being hot / feverish and sweating is a byproduct of illness....not the cure.
- fate0
"Wrap up - your body is making you hot so the bugs can't reproduce or function as well."
This is utterly wrong.
- qoob0
Great metal band name
- pizzafire0
get in a sauna, if you can.
- monospaced0
drink lots of water and sleep. sleep it off.
- Fax_Benson0
Triathlon a cold
Decathlon the Flu
- d_rek0
"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.
- d_rek0
"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.
- Just drink lots of h20 and get some bedrest.d_rek
- that's what I said just above, sleep and watermonospaced
- vaxorcist0
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....
- sleep and water negate the randomness, guaranteedmonospaced
- i_monk0
Spicy foods and lots of booze!
- stoplying0
Ask someone to punch it out of you.
- ohhhhhsnap0
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