Fighting Off that Cold: Tips, Tricks and Products

It's cold season and you want to try something different. It seems like no matter what you do, you can't stave off a cold. You wash your hands, drink your orange juice and get plenty of rest. What else can you do? How do you fight off a cold? What products are best once you get that cold? Here are all your "cold question" answers that you will ever need.

Washing your hands and getting plenty of rest certainly are great factors in reducing your risk of getting a cold. But there are some supplements you can take to help your immune system as well.

1. Take a multi-vitamin. Cold season or not, this is essential to healthy living

2. Vitamin C- this is an excellent way to keep your immune system in check. However too much Vitamin C can be detrimental.

3. Look into Probiotics, like Acidophilus. It keeps your digestive track in check and also keeps a healthy bacterium in the body, which in some cases has been shown to lessen the chance of infection. A new multi-vitamin on the market called the "Multibionta Probiotic Vitamin optimizes two essentials. The advanced formula already has 100% of the recommended daily allowance of 23 different vitamins and minerals.

Another product is called Airborne. This product, developed by a teacher should be taken before you go into a cold bacteria contaminated place. These places include a classroom, hospital and airplane, where the air tends to be stagnant. Airborne was once mentioned on Oprah about two years ago, and the product was backordered for months! Some people claim that it works, while others believe it to be somewhat of a sham. I have used this product before with no results. I still got a cold. One thing everyone does agree on about this product is the taste. It is pretty horrible. It comes in an effervescent tablet that really does a dandy on the taste buds-and not in a good way.