Its interestig how diseases infect the body. You could be out somewhere and somehow a tiny droplet containing virii or bacteria from an infected person gets in your nasal passage without you even knowing. Then the droplet just stays in your nose and the virii or bacteria incubate there. In the moist, warm environment of your nasal passage they replicate and grow.
You don’t even know anything is happening initially until the colony has grown to a significant extent and is now working its way down your respiratory tract, causing an inflammatory response.
You notice a burning feeling in the back of your throat and know something’s amiss. Yet much of the time we may take something like zinc, or use mouthwash, without using a prophylactic to treat the source of the infection, in this case the nasal passage.
How effective will it be to boost the body’s immune system, and to treat the secondary locations like the throat and mouth where the infection is spreading to, without treating the source where it is incubating, i.e. the nasal passage?
If you had some radioactive substance on your body somewhere and it was causing damage to tissue and membranes, it would be immediately obvious to flush the substance completely off the body. In the same way, I’m coming to increasingly believe that its important not just to treat secondary aspects of a cold-type infection, but to immediately try to wipe it out at the source.
One problem is that, even though it may be incubating in our nasal passage, because of the way our bodies are designed, we may not feel anything particularly wrong there. Usually we will feel it in the throat, or as a feeling of general fatigue when the immune system is mounting its inflammatory response to combat the virii or bacteria that are rapidly colonizing our bodies like wildfire.
Therefore I think its important to use a product like Xlear to flush out the nasal passage and make sure that no microorganisms are colonizing there, causing infection to other parts of our body.
In addition, taking zinc helps considerably, as do other things like garlic capsules, getting extra rest, and drinking a lot of fluids, preferably herbal teas like my favorite raspberry leaf/lemon verbena leaf/stevia leaf tea in the evening or a nice, lightly-steeped organic black tea such are darjeeling, sweetened with a little bit of stevia powder.
A lot of times we may notice an infection starting to happen in the evening or at night before we go to bed. If its serious, it will be clear that something is going on with our body as it starts shifting into infection/inflammation mode.
When that happens I think its important to stay awake and fight it. During the initial infection stage, when the virii or bacteria are really starting to multiply and infect our system, we have to be vigilant and mount a serious defense against it. Its better to stay awake and keep using mouthwash every 30-45 minutes, being sure to gargle for a long time, take prophylactic supplements like the aforementioned garlic and zinc, keep giving the body fluids, and also give the body some food because it needs fuel to burn while fighting off the infection. I like to make a pot of simple brown rice and season it with a lot of organic tamaric sauce to make it salty. Brown rice is nice because it will not feed the infection or exacerbate the inflammation as would other foods. Miso soup is also excellent to have.
Regarding zinc, during the critical stage when combating an infection, I will take up to 3 times the regular dose. If a regular dose is one tablet, I will take three tablets initially. But its important to not overtake it. Also, I’ve read that there can be serious problems with zinc nasal sprays, and lately I’ve preferred ingestible zinc tablets to sublingual ones for safety. Too much zinc directly in contact with the mouth or nasal passage can have unwanted, long-term effects such as altering taste perception, which can be avoided by taking an oral dose.
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