Does orange juice help with a cold?

Question 1
Does orange juice help with a cold?...  I have a slight cold post nasal drip. And I wa wondering if orange juice I good for it?

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1)   the vitiman c is suppose to help fight infections, and oj has alot. - cheach

2)   I think it could help you a little since Vat. C is good to prevent a cold. You could also drink much warm water and get to bed earlier. - Jack Stone

3)   I always have been told it does but upon digging i found evidence to the contrary saying that it is almost useless for a common cold. - andy

4)   No, it triggers mucous production. Go for apple juice if you want to drink juice. - thenoseknows

5)   yes and no oj has lot of vitamin c and that helps but it also has citric acid and that doesnt help - Edowādo

6)   A full orange would be better for you than straight orange juice, IMO. VItamin C would be great for your immune system. So would elderberry or echinacea.

If you think you are still fighting off a virus, you could try something like oil of oregano drops orally. If you really need to clear out your nasal passages, you could also consider using something like a neti pot and mixing a solution of purified water with a natural salt (eg: unprocessed sea or Himalayan) and a couple drops of goldenseal but if you do this make sure you eat tons of yogurt or take a probiotic. - Dee Robinson

7)   yes. - Mr E

8)   Orange juice does have a small amount of Vitiman C but not enough to aid in fighting the cold.

To fight a cold you need a minimum of 12,000 mg a day from the outset to five days after the cold ends. The only way to receive that much is through tablets and best taken with food..

Humans and monkeys can not produce Vitiman C while almost all other animals do in quantities to combat illnesses. A sick dog can easily produce 25,000 mg to combat its illness. Of humans could we'd be sick less often. - Ken G


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Question 2
HELP! I've overdosed on caffeine, is there anyway to get it out of my system?...  Ok guys!

I've drunk just over a litre of coca cola (pepsi max to be precise) and I am like shaking, dizzy, confusion, having bursts of excitment then hitting a real low where my body is aching, I feel a headache is on it way! oo and im peeing quite a bit

All I want is for it to be out my system - Please help!

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1)   Drink lots of water to dilute the caffiene and flush it out. You'll be fine. Don't panick, you're not overdosing - you won't die. You've simply consumed more caffiene than your body is used to. - psych_78

2)   drink the same amount of water and wait for it to be flushed through - Twisted Sister

3)   i guess drinking a pint or so of water will help - jennifer p

4)   but it wont harm u in the slightest you div , your over reacting over nothing!

are you that board you have to resort to asking this question? - JD-STARZ

5)   These are all symptoms off Caffeine overdose.

Their is not a lot you can do. Go sit in a dark room for a bit.
However 1 litre of soft juice is not a lot off caffeine however you are describing typical symptoms.

As for the headache, you could take paracetamol, but these products all contain caffeine so I would just leave it.
Hopefully, your symptoms will stop in a few hours. If In 24 hours they're still troubling you, it be best to see a doctor. - Ali Smith

6)   i would guess its a sugar rush rather that the caffine. lie down and wait for it to pass, and dont do it again if it makes you feel like that!!! - Amy

7)   If you have a homeopathic medicine shop close by please buy 5ml of Nux Vomica 30 . Take 4 drops of Nux Vom-30 in half a cup of water at 30 minutes interval only 3 times.Please do not eat or drink anything in between .

You will be OK soon - PARTHA R

8)   A liter of Pepsi Max has 194.4 milligrams of caffeine, or roughly the same as two cups of coffee. Your symptoms to sound very familiar, but I'm afraid there is little you can do. Eventually, your body will flush the caffeine out through the urine. - Little Cage


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Question 3
What are the risks of trying ecstasy?...  I have never done it before. I have smoked pot, done shrooms, and taken narcotics before. I'm not a frequent drug user, all though I do smoke about every weekend. So this being the first time, I'm not sure what to expect, besides the things I have heard. I only plan on taking a single tablet. I should be fine, right? What are the risks? And how should I expect to feel? This will probably just be a one time thing, like shrooms. Thanks, guys!

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1)   theres no risk, your brain is already shit. enjoy! - Bob Bob

2)   The risk of trying ecstasy? Waking up in a strangers back yard with your pants missing. - Brennan S

3)   I'd be very concerned with the fact that this drug is not natural, but made in some loser's back room or basement lab. You can't always be 100% sure of what you are getting. Shrooms and weed actually have medicinal properties, but ex will have residual effects in your body. The earth didn't grow it, you sure we should use something like that?

ETA: I am not an advocate of pharmaceuticals at all. I believe they cause more damage than believed, they will always have side affects and can't work in harmony with our bodies. It's like trying to reconcile plastic to flesh: impossible. Also, pharmaceuticals that are used LEGALLY are still the third cause of death in America. - Dee Robinson

4)   The biggest risk is not knowing what's in the pill.

A lot of times those pills are cut with DXM or other crap that REALLY isn't good for you. Some times there are a mix of other stuff in there too, like heroin .... which is usually easy to notice (brown spots).

However, if you get some good pure MDMA, you will be fine -- from a health standpoint. As the drug releases serotonin, creating amazingly good moods, you may have a mood swing for a hangover. But the feeling? ..... 'A kid at Disney World' is a phrase often used here in the States to describe the feeling...no matter where you are or what you're doing. Everyone will be your best friend. Everything in the world is 'amazing'.

.....So I've heard.


@Dee: The earth didn't grow ibuprofen, Cialas, or [name and OTC drug] either. Just because it's manufactured doesn't mean it will be harmful when used in moderation. - End The Fed!!!

5)   The reason I won't do it is that it has the ability to raise your core body temperature to 105. You brain starts to denature at 106. For me, that is just a little too close.
Me. I like bud. - Doug

6)   my friend that does x on a regular basis and who is responsible with it, knows what to do for each trip she does wasn't prepared for her last one. it was meth based. who knew? nobody. im not trying to scare u im just letting u know ur playing with hard stuff now. if u dont think x is hard then ur probably going to try coke sooner or later and idk about u but i feel like if im never going to do something more then "once". i mine as well never do it at all if its only once. thats y iv smoked pot for over 3 years now and haven't tried anything else. theres no point knowing the joy of a drug even if u know where it came from if ur only going to do it once. it could b horrible and b the worst few hours of ur life or it could b one of the best things ever. i mean what doesn't sound cool about seeing sound and hearing colors!? well thats y i wont do it. i tried pot knowing i might like it and as long as i kept my life together that it would b ok, good grades and not only hang out with just people that smoke. despite that most ppl do these days anyway hah. - Nick

7)   I have pasted two different answers I already wrote on ecstasy so that you have a more informed decision about what you may get into. I encourage you to do a lot of research before making your decision.

BELOW HAS BEEN PASTED

Some drugs increase your temperature; and MDMA is one such drug.

As your temperature increases, your body sweats as its defense mechanism to help cool your body off. In the process you lose fluids.

These fluids need to be replenished or your body will not be able to regulate your temperature.

Once temperature gets too high your brain begins to fry, organs begin to shut down, and you could die. Even worse than death, you could wind up as a vegetable, sucking from breathing tubes; and spending the rest of your life wishing you were dead.

The other effect of MDMA is that it makes you feel good; even when your body is trying to tell you, "hey stupid, I'm overheating, so slow down a bit." The MDMA is masking the warning signs and many just keep on dancing even though they are getting sick. Once the dizziness and vomiting start, it's usually too late.

So it is very important to drink fluids while on ecstasy. A standard average rule is 16 to 20 ounces an hour; but if you are up dancing you will need a little more. And the problem with this rule is: is that it varies depending on how much ecstasy you take, how hot your surroundings are, and how well your body is at regulating temperature and fluid retention.

Its wise to drink some type of sports drink too because if you are sweating profusely, you will need to replenish your electro-lytes. Just don't over consume sports drinks because that can make you sick too.

You also have to be careful not to drink TOO MUCH water because that can kill you too. Lately more users seem to be dying from drinking too much instead of too little. Your body can only process so much water at a time. If you take in too much, your kidneys shut down and organs shut down, and you die.

So yes you can die from drinking too much water even if you are sober. It's just that when you are sober your body starts making you feel uncomfortable when you begin to drink too much; and that's why you don't hear of many fatalities from sober people drinking too much water.

But when you are on ecstasy the drug masks those warning signs and the ones that keep on chugging, tend to wind up in the ER or the morgue.

The rollers who have been doing this awhile generally know their body and how much to take, and how much fluids they need, and when to slow it down a bit. But even they get carried away sometimes.


Also:

Other drugs that are often found in ecstasy pills include other amphetamines, and GHB among others. And they too increase temperature; so it can be a cocktail of drugs all of which are raising your temperature and masking the symptoms.

And sometimes MDA is used in place of MDMA. That drug (MDA) can raise your temperature up far more than MDMA can.

And ecstasy tends to make you want to dance and jump around a lot; and that too will further raise your body temperature and deplete necessary fluids keeping you alive.

Oh and another reason so many get in trouble is because on ecstasy the less you drink, the harder you roll. And the more water you drink, the more you come down from your roll. So many don't use good judgment and tend to want to push that high as close to the brink as possible because it feels good. That is at least until medics are doing CPR on you.

So ecstasy is a risky drug on so many levels, but for many the high outweighs the risk.

It does seem the newbies to ecstasy have far higher rates of health emergencies than the more experienced rollers. But risks nonetheless.

SECOND PASTED ANSWER

All ecstasy has MDMA in it or technically it is not ecstasy. MDMA is methylenedioxmethamphetamine.

All ecstasy is cut with other drugs or on the streets its known as a molly, or clean cut ecstasy. If it doesn't have MDMA in it, technically it is considered fake.

Cut means what it is mixed with. Even powered MDMA is mixed; its just that the stuff its mixed with is not a drug.

Ecstasy pills are color coded: light colored pills are cut with additional amphetamines and will give you a speedy roll; dark colored pills are cut with a downer classification type drug. This will give you a more laid back roll.

Unfortunately some drug dealers are getting sloppy on their color coding system.

There are thousands of ecstasy pills out there but all are grouped into two classifications; speedy or smacky.

The big danger in taking any club drug is that you really don't know what's in it or how potent each pill is. They are not made from a pharmaceutical company by licensed chemists. You could even have different strengths from the same batch. Many users wrongly assume if one is weak I will just take two next weekend since I bought them in a batch and they are all the same - john


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Question 4
When my Mormon friend speaks crap comes out his mouth, literally, what disease is this and how can I help them?...  

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1)   Not a cure. Get a new friend. - carmel361310

2)   some magnesium milk would help ...you can also try something from catholic inquisition ... - .

3)   Maybe the problem isn't in his mouth but in your ears and brain. Go ask your question in Religion & Spirituality. - Rick

4)   Buy him some diapers for his face. - fakeuserid51

5)   Google a list of local dentists surrounding his address. Give it to him with a smile and a kind word. - c.

6)   This could be a sign of phsychiatric disfunction on your own part. Such hostility towards a friend could be a symptom. - rrosskopf


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Question 5
Herbs for preventing vomiting?...  I had the flu a little while back, but i'm still coughing and bringing up mucus. Thing is, I cough and vomit at the same time, not even coughing very hard. Are there any natural herbs for preventing the vomiting?

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1)   Sorry, no. - Bruce

2)   Something that has worked very well for me and others I know is 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda in 4-oz of water, stirred well. Take a sip or two every five minutes or so after vomiting keeping the mixture intact. Many disagree with me, but as I said, it's worked for me and others over many years. Might not work in your case, but I don't think it would hurt to try once, eh? - Rick

3)   1) Zingiber officinale (Ginger) has anti-emetic properties
2) Mentha piperita (Peppermint) has anti-emetic properties

Though, usually if you're vomiting it's for a reason. The body is trying to rid itself of something it doesn't like. Unless treating a serious condition or you have a risk of bleeding, anti-emetics should be avoided.

I wish you the best! - Optimist


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