Ugh!! Where in the uckfay is all this snot coming from?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My first cold of the season, thankyou.
I’ve got all the pleasant symptoms of a grade 3, class A, Type 1 cold virus.
The symptoms include the following;

  • continious bursts of sneezing, usually three or four in a row, with very productive excreta dispersal.
  • inflamation of the left eye, causing non-stop tear duct activity and strange looks from fellow employees wondering who the hell died.
  • buckets full of used snot filled tissues, which I ran out of, so now I use hand towels, ouch.
  • headache, fatigue, upset stomach, little sleep and no energy, hooray!
  • I have to be at work today, contruction deadline is tomorrow, perfect.
  • itchy nose and the only way to scratch it is to pinch it which causes more tears and more sneezing.

Where in the hell does all this snot come from anyway? I swear there has been more snot (in terms of gross kilograms) that has exited my body than there is body.
I attempted to drink the cold away last night with a little Jack Daniels lots of times but that didn’t seem to work so good. Then I realised that maybe I had the ‘feed a fever starve a cold’ thing all wrong and was thinking ‘kill a cold with alcohol and starve a fever’.
Whatever the case, today is revenge time for the cold virus that would not evacuate my body through natural means, which is drinking Jack Daniels.

And it is pissed off!

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Preach it, brotha!

I called off work today, after going in yesterday, spending about 65% of the time sneezing out huge clouds of germs at 70 miles per hour, and spreading this plague like Typhoid Mary. I’m staying home and playing World of Warcraft. Bleah.

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And these aren’t the regular sneezes either. They don’t go AAACHOOO, they go HAAAACHAAAA. Where’s the mop when you need it.

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I’m pretty sure snot is melted brain. That’s why you feel so sluggish and dumb when you have a cold–your brain is melting out your nose. :smiley:

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Try this:

Snort salt water up each nostril while standing over the tub. Then blow your nose into the tub. Repeat a few times each side. Enjoy life again for a few moments.

I learned this trick here on the SDMB and have to say it works great. I take an empty margarine tub, add a few shakes of salt and warm water, dissolve, and then use the corner to snort through each nostril. Make the water salty to the taste, but not too strong. You can also add a dash of baking soda.

This helps clear out the mass snot that accumulates, especially if it is that colored bacterial stuff. Boy is life nice afterwards, you feel so much better and you clean out your head for a while.

-Tcat