Just Where Does All That Glop Come From?--Talking About Boggers With a Cold

I'm sorry you are not feeling well. It seems everyone has a touch of something this year. I really don't know where all that congestoin comes from, but its sure is nasty. I think you should take a couple of shots of Southern comfort and layer up on the blankets. Go to sleep and sweat it out of you. I have tried this a few times and it has worked for me. Hope you feel better soon, and keep eating the soup. they say it's 3 days to catch it, 3 days to be really sick, and 3 days to start going away.

Well, my grandma (a hillbilly, bless her heart) used to swear by bear grease smeared on a rag and wrapped around the offending throat. Thank gooness, there was no available bear grease! At least, when I was affected. My best remedy is for a sore throat - gargle with salt and warm water, but you shouldn't be able to taste the salt. If you can taste the salt, it'll probably irritate your throat, as opposed to soothing it. As for the nose, I usually try to blow the crap out, and out and out. Takes forever! If all else fails, get a Z-pac from your Doc. I had to get one - I got the flu for Christmas, and a sinus infection as a follow-up. Sucks and blows, yes? Still using my Puffs Plus. Where will it end, yes, where will it end?

I like to use the store brand of mucinex. It makes me feel better. Home remedies: either eat horseradish, or if you do not like to eat it, breathe the fumes off of it. That is according to Prevention Magazine. I think all that glop is kind of like what the oyster does to make a pearl. Your sinuses are irritated, and your body forms the extra glop to wrap around the irritation. Philosophical enough? Maybe you should stir some horseradish into your soup?

Stay in your bed. Drink a lot of tea. Take hot bath. Drink bed time tea with chamomile (if you have it)... Relax, listen to good music... I would recommend sounds of nature... Watch comedies.... Pet your cats. Love is the most important medicine and pets are one of nature's best sources of affection. Pets relax and calm. Get well soon..:) Warm HUGS!

I honestly have no idea where that junk comes from but I've had it since Christmas Day - cough, fever, and have gone through 3 boxes of kleenx and 2 rolls of toilet paper just blowing my nose. Have also gone through gallons of Campbells Chicken Noodle soup but it's still with me :( I'm sick of being sick! So remedies???? I gave up 'drinking' 5 years ago but I'm about to go off the wagon - Hot Damn (cinnamon snops) used to be my favorite cure. Drink a pint, go to bed, sweat like crazy, and cold gone the next day. I'm about to go to the second option which works the same but not near as great smelling - Garlic, lots and lots of garlic. I get the tablets and just pop them like candy whenever I think about it. Problem is you certainly do not want to do this if you are going to leave the house or be around anyone because you can guess it - your sweat smells very strong of garlic.

It's your brains melting... You can do nothing and the cold will subside in 7 to 10 days, or you could take something (anything) for it and it'll clear up in only a week, week and a half tops!

for flu and colds I do hot toddies WHiskey surgar sqeese on lemon and hot water go to bed and sweatit out. and have always wondered when all that stuff thatcomes out when blowing nose comes from and I stil have no idea lol Still thinking abut it but that dont help either just as long as it comes out and dont go to the lungs!

Chicken soup, lemon, garlic and cayenne pepper. "Bernie Rappaport, MD, a California Psychiatrist, told us that his favorite recipe is to 'mix one-eighth teaspoon of cayenne pepper, the juice of one lemon, one minced clove of garlic and one gram of vitamin C. Sip slowly'" Further, "The cayenne pepper and the garlic both have germicidal properties, and both make you perspire, which seems to bring relief. Lemons are loaded with vitamin C (moreso than limes)and are also rich in bioflavonoids, substances that seem to make vitamin C work better. If the mixture is too strong for you, feel free to cut it by adding water or an appropriate herbal tea." Quoted from "Natural Healing A Complete A to Z Guide for Australians" by Mark Bricklin. There are also several herbal teas that will bring relief. Feel better.

My grandmother used to boil hot water, then add some fresh lemon and smell it before drinking it. I never tried it but she swore by it. I've luckily been feeling fine recently, near christmas and new year I kept getting bad pains in my stomach. Thankfully, that's passed and although I was being told "Visit the doctor" I'm glad I didn't waste their time. ~Joey

Hi pyewacket, I'm so very sorry to hear that you're feeling so miserable. This on top of your feet, and ankle problem ... just isn't right. I know you've mentioned that you hate to lie down, take it easy, etc., but this is a time when you should be able to do this, and without guilt. Remember those old commercials from years ago? They were for 'Aspirin.' The slogan I believe was, "Rest in bed, drink plenty of fluids, and take Aspirin." Nowadays, people just seem to keep going, and if they work outside their home, they continue going into work. I believe this prolongs the whole thing, and is also a major factor, in many others ending up sick, as well. As for old fashioned remedies, my mother swore by 'mustard plasters.' Remember them? Every time we had a cold, we were 'subjected' to them, and they were so yucky smelling, and I can still remember 'the burn.' I think they're mainly for chest colds though. Another thing she'd give us, is, she'd take 'Vick's vapor rub,' and rub it on our chest, or in the case of a head cold, she'd place a small amount beneath each nostril, and it definitely helped with our breathing. Now that'll sure clean out the sinuses! She also made us 'homemade' hot lemonade. No 'Neocitran' for us, and in fact, it didn't exist back then. I hope you're better soon, and as for where all of that 'gunk' comes from, I've always wondered this too. It sure makes for a sore nose, with all of that blowing. I've found sometimes, I can barely stand the touch of a tissue, when I'm like this, as it's too painful. Have you ever had your 'taste buds' go completely because of this? Very unpleasant!

Leave it to you, Pye, to ask this question! I wish I knew the answer...lol. I know I've often said when I've had a bad cold that I should have lost half of my body weight because it sure would seem like I blew that much out of my nose. Although sometimes it's even more irritating when I blow my nose and there's nothing to come out but it's still all stuffed. All stuff up and not even any buggers to show for it! As for remedies, try some Echinacea. My husband keeps telling me he saw it on TV that it doesn't really work it's all in your head; HELLO - and my cold is WHERE?? But, honestly, there have been many times when I've had that feeling you get when you're coming down with a cold; I have allergies and I think a deviated septum so I'm stuffed up much of the time but I can really tell the difference when it's a cold and those times I take an Echinacea and by the next morning if I take it before bedtime it's gone. If it's just all in my head that it works, so be it, but it does work for me and it's a lot cheaper than most cold medications. I hope you feel better soon - in less than 7 to 10 days! Annie

Yeah...bee puke is great for sore throats and helps quiet coughs. Let's see....is it feed a cold/starve a fever or starve a cold/feed a fever. Heck, I don't remember but anyways, chicken soup or even just the warm broth helps. I am proud to say I haven't been sick in almost a year now. Amazing considering my daughter usually brings home all the yuckies from school.

Since I've been afflicted with a similar situation for the past week, pyewacket, I had to ask myself that very same question. There were a couple of days recently that I was sure I had caught one of those "killer" colds they were talking about in the news not long ago. For 2 whole nights I was constantly blowing my nose-which hardly allowed for any sleep. By the time I made it to the doctor on Tuesday I felt as if my head was in a vice and there was someone gradually tightening it until I feared my brains would erupt at any moment, lol. Thankfully, I'm now back to about 50%(no thanks to the new doctor). I've come to the conclusion that this gunk just builds up inside you-like in a car engine-and when you are feeling a little vulnerable it jumps out at you. Who knows?

I swear all the glob is your brains leaking out of your head through every orif. You body is making so much mucous to help get rid of all the germs that are in your nose and in your body. There is nothing better than good old campbells chicken noodle soup when you are sick. Chicken and stars are good also.

remedies for colds? well just have a good rest and drink plenty of water and no cold drinks..i dont take any medicine when i have colds just eat citrus fruits...and eat some hot chicken soup which you have already done..

my brother swears we all have a "snot pocket" somewheres that fills when we are sick LOL. the only thing i've ever found helps me with colds is rest,and lots of blankets.none of the remedies seem to do anything,but sweating it out seems to make it leave faster(as long as you don't jump from hot to cold quickly,that is)..

Howdy Pye, Sorry to hear of the cold and flu symptoms you are experiencing. You asked about the "GLOP"..It's my understanding that this is your bodies reaction to the invasion of the germs.It's your immune system working for you tossing away the cute little bugs running through you bod. The "glop" as in convenient as it is should be a welcome sign that your immune system is doing it's job. And by the way; The Campbell's Select chicken with noodles is the only soup I ever eat!! LOL

howdy, hope your are feeling better today. i have always wondered about that, too. surely that's a very good, acceptable, biological, scientific, medical reason or explanation as to where the 'glop' comes from... all of insides working to get the bad germs and bacterias and what-nots out of our system - thru' the glob. i really wonder just how many of these bad germs have infected your body because there is just toooo much glob... you keep blowing it out till 'you think' there is no more.. the passage is all cleared, and... in a few seconds - the nose is clogged up again... i always tell my husband i wish i could 'take the nose off, drain everything - every drop of glob - out.. and put the nose on again'.... and since i work in a 'closed' environment - airconditioned office, with the windows or door hardly open - once one colleague has it... all of us will start to worry, and pray that we wont catch the bug and become the 'next sickling'. oh.. ever heard of "Vicks Vaporub" ? i luv it.. been using since i was little.. the whole family uses it. it doesnt cure the cold or stop the glob... but it really helps clear the passage, helps to breath easier... i do hope you get better... take care!

I'm sure the medical profession can say where all that stuff comes from, but I'm more interested in how to get rid of it. In answer to your other question, here is a recipe for something that helps me out when I have a cold. In to a mug put the juice of half a lemon, a teaspoon of fresh chopped ginger, one chopped up garlic clove (a large one), and as much cayenne pepper as you can stand. Now fill the mug with boiling water and let stand for 5 minutes. Sip it slowly and make several during the day.