Airbone Has Been Clinically Proven To Be Absolutely Worthless

[oddbird]

I seem to have caught the Reed plague that's going around. All of my muscles ache and I cycle between chills and fever. I'm downing Airborne and chicken soup while hoping that this will be a short-lived illness. I have the plague. I'm comforting myself my forming mental lists of other things I have. These are mine, at least for the summer

Comments

[nietzscheansmut]

As I understood it, it wasn't that Airborne had been proven worthless as that the study that demonstrated its benefits had been discredited, and so its utility in preventing illness had been called into question. I don't think anyone doubts that it helps, but the degree to which it does so is disputed, and there has been some evidence that the large quantities of Vitamin C it contains can be harmful in the long term.

[oddbird]

Yeah, I may have exaggerated a bit. But "The Supposed Clinical Date That Airborne Is Effective Turned Out To Be A Sham" is a less snazzy title. I've been taking one Airborne a day as opposed to the one every 3 hours that the packages recommends, so I'm hoping the excessive vitamin C I'm consuming won't be excessive to the point of harmfulness.

[sisyphus_gurl8]

I've heard that Vitamin C is water soluble so that you just pee out the excess. But then again I abhor science, so it could be a mistake.

[oddbird]

I think that's generally true. One tablet of Airborne contains 1000% of your daily recommended dosage of Vitamin C, though, and it recommends that you take them every 3 hours. It's nearly impossible to consume a toxic level of Vitamin C, but massive doses over time can supposedly overwhelm your body's usual excretion process and cause kidney stones.

[oddbird]

I seem to be recovering now, but I'm still a little shaky. Is Zycam a zinc supplement? I've heard good things about zinc shortening the duration of colds.

[iheartsuburbia]

We had the same thing at SVA! I was deathly ill for about a week, constantly vomiting, not being able to eat, etc. It was so terrible! The pain in my stomach never went away! And then I heard about all these people having it. Eventually half my class had it. BAD!

Well, you should just take Vitamin C tablets instead of Airborne. Or, wait it out. I'm not really into medication.

Become better!

[oddbird]

Colleges are basically incubaters for horrible new mutant strains of illness. We've had a couple of Reed plagues sweep campus this year, but this one was the first that I actually caught. Most likely because I was already not eating or sleeping particularly well do to general stress and infatuation.

I'm basically trying to drink lots of fluids, eat/drink citrus, and sleep. It seems to be helping.