Jun 29
HERBAL TEA BEFORE SCHOOL?
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I like to have herbal tea with my breakfast before school, and I’m also going into 9th grade.
It does have some caffeine in it, so just don’t drink more than a cup, and don’t ever drink it before bed.
Also, make sure you eat something with it, like toast or a bagel so it absorbs the tea. Otherwise, your tummy will hurt.
Another thing you need to do is brush your teeth after you drink it so it doesn’t stain your teeth and your breath smells good.
To get some energy in the morning, try the following:
- Do pilates or yoga (bending over aids blood flow to your brain, thus waking you up)
- Go on a jog
- Take a cold shower, if you can stand it
- Eat yogurt or protein in the morning to stimulate your brain
- Do the daily Soduku, word jumble, or other word games found in the newspaper to get your brain going
Help your immune system:
- Drink/eat a lot of vitamin C. Lemon juice, orange juice, lemons, limes, grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, etc. Vitamin C is proven to help the function of the immune system.
- Drink lots of water to help flush toxins out of your body and keep you healthy. This will also aid in weight loss and having lovely skin.
- Rest as much as possible, and make sure to get at least 9 hours of sleep. People don’t realize how stressed we are at our age, and sleeping helps us prepare for the day. Don’t stay up too late watching TV or checking your Myspace or something.
- Don’t put your fingers in your mouth, eyes, ears, nose; anywhere that can get inside your body and attack your organs. If you have any cuts or open wounds, keeping them clean is essential because germs and bacteria can very easily make you sick quickly if they get in your bloodstream.
- Wash your hands and brush your teeth regularly. Also floss and use mouth wash.
- Stay away from tobacco, drugs, and alcohol because they weaken the system.
If you get a cold, get rid of it by:
- Take a day off from school. You wouldn’t want to feel uncomfortable at school, with a blocked nose, runny nose, and the urge to sneeze every 10 minutes. This also helps limit your spread of the illness to others.
- Stop the spreading of germs. Don’t allow others to eat or drink from anything you have come in contact with, and change your pillow cases every day or two while you’re feeling ill. This will limit your chances of spreading the illness, as well as help remove the germs from your environment.
- Drink lots of water or juice. Staying hydrated will reduce the effects of many symptoms such as headaches and sore throat. You may go to the bathroom a lot, but it’s no different than your body trying to get rid of stuff by making you cough and sneeze. A good indication that you are drinking enough fluids is that your urine will be almost clear. The deeper yellows imply higher concentrations of waste in your body that are not dissolving and diluting enough - so, raise your fluid intake. Hot soups are another good way to take fluids in.
- Eat chicken soup. There has been some scientific evidence to suggest that chicken soup slows down the movement of certain white blood cells which cause the symptoms of a cold, in addition the hot liquid from the soup can help clear the nasal passages and soothe your throat. In addition, some view the combination of salt, heat and fluid in chicken soup as an aid in fighting infection.
- Wash your hands after you blow your nose. While this will not help you, it will reduce the likelihood of the virus being transmitted to someone else.
- Take cold medicine only if you need to, although not scientifically demonstrated, it is a common belief that symptomatic treatments may prolong the cold.
- Consider taking a vitamin C supplement, drinking orange juice, and eating some fruits. Although the effectiveness of vitamin C is widely disputed, many vitamin C proponents advise the use of high dosages (in excess of 2g) of vitamin C to reduce the duration of a cold (see warning).
- Get plenty of rest and try not to exert yourself — stressful activity can prolong a cold. You may want to add an additional pillow if you find that you cough more when lying down.
- Take a hot bath/shower to clear up nasal passages. If you have long hair, use a blow dryer to minimize losing your body heat afterwards.
- Use Zinc Nasal Spray. Since Zinc interrupts cold-virus replication in lab settings, Zinc Nasal Sprays may reduce symptoms, if used early on.
- To soothe a scratchy throat, gargle with warm lightly salted water.
- Boil special leaves (such as mint leaves, eucalyptus, thyme, and clove), let a towel soak up the water, and inhale, or just leave it on your face for a couple of minutes. It may help clear your nasal passages.
- Honey and Lemon cold relief: Boil some water, pour into a mug, add the lemon juice and stir in two teaspoons of honey (or to taste). Curl up in a comfy chair in front of a roaring fire and feel a lot better very soon. The effect should last for a couple of hours and brings almost total relief to sore throats and blocked noses.
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