Suggestions on how to fight a cold...

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Here is my problem. When I get a cold, I get it like it is my job for the next 3 months. I tend to get Bronchitis in October or November each year. This year it started November 4th (2007) and I had such a low immune system that I managed to catch 2 more colds once the Bronchitis started to subside. I finally got mostly healthy somewhere mid to late January and was healthy for about 3 weeks (give or take) until this past Friday when I caught the cold that both my hubby and my boss had. I do everything I can to prevent colds. I got the flu shot this year but, that is only good for the flu which I don't tend to get anyway. I wash my hands many times throughout the day. I wipe down the parts of a grocery cart that I will be touching with antibacterial wipes. I take Airborne and Zicam. I try to avoid touching surfaces, while out and about, that germ carrying hands might touch. If a store has and automatic door, I will use it, or I will use my shoulder to open other doors. I try to keep my hands off railings when walking up and down stairs. I am becoming a germaphobe. What more can I do? Airborne is pretty much like a power packed multiple vitamin so, I can't really take more as far as immunity boosting vitamins. I am just at such a loss. It ticks me off to see other people catch a cold that is usually not as bad as mine, and they get over it in a week or 2 while I suffer from colds for 3 months. And, now that I have this new one, I will probably just be getting over it around the time that my March allergies knock me around. Any help or suggestions that people can give me will be greatly appreciated. I have tried a lot of stuff to thwart colds and they have not been successful. But, if someone can suggest something I haven't tried and may not know about, I would be so grateful just for the suggesion...whether it works or not. At least it would give me hope. Oh, and even if I go to my doctor the second day into a cold and get prescriptions like the Z-pack or other antibiotics, they have no effect on me, regardless of how soon I get something to fight the cold. How crappy is that? Anyway, thank you in advance for any suggestions!