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On Friday, 11 March 2016 23:16:00 UTC, Sam Crean wrote:
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Tim Streater wrote:
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Adrian Caspersz wrote:

I've just acquired a seasonal cold that seems to be unusually
swelling my vessels in nostrils causing daily nose bleeds, seems
paracetamol is helping.

Never noticed this before. Funny strain of cold.

Walk-in clinic (that's miles to drive), local GP (a week to see) or
"it will go away?"

ATM I'm thinking/hoping the last ...

I take 1000mg of Vit C every day at the onset of a cold,

Complete waste of time.

Not really as it gets rid of the cold within a few days, rather than
the
weeks that everyone else seem to have it.

It doesn't actually. That's been studied using proper double
blind trials and it has no effect what so ever taken that late.


it clears up within a day or two, i don't take anything to relieve
the symptoms which is all the 'cold remedies' are.

Yes. That's all they do. But relief from the symptoms is what you
need, most of the time.

The Vit C will give you the squits, though not in the running to the
bog vareity, just a bit loose, but who cares if it gets rid of the
cold...

It doesn't.

It helps the body fight it naturally,

No it doesn't.

it works for me,

Just the placebo effect.

doesn't work for either of my brothers but works for one of my sisters
and
a few other people i know,

No it doesn't.

everyone's different and have different things going on inside them,

And proper double blind trials show if it works for anyone. It doesn't.

this is probably why there are dozens of different medicines for the
same
ailments, not everyone responds to certain things and other things need
to
be used in those cases.

But those that work for anyone can be shown to do that
with proper double blind trials. Vitamin C taken like that
doesn't make any difference with anyone when you do a
proper double blind trial to prove whether it works for
anyone or not.

The trouble with double blind placebo controlled trials is that 95%
of them give results that fail to be replicated when tested later,

That's a lie.

ie most such results are wrong.

Another lie.