If you're at all concerned that you might not be getting enough
vitamins, go with a good one-a-day vitamin-mineral supplement. Unless
you have a known deficiency in something, you shouldn't need anything
else.

My favourite quotation about colds: "A cold will last a week if you
treat it, and seven days if you don't". Wish I could remember where I
heard it, it deserves to have a proper attribution.

I agree with Bernard. I *always* treat a cold with neat whisky. I still
have the cold for a week, but, with careful dosages, I don't care how I
feel! ;-S

Maggie

I have a slight cold (slight headache, high temperature, sore throat
and dizziness -- my pharmacist agreed that this sounds like a cold),
and am wondering about using mega-vitamin therapy (large doses -- I
think it needs about 1g per day -- of Vitamin C) to deal with it.

However, today I started a new tub of test strips, and one thing which
Bayer says might cause false results is the presence in the bloodstream
of unusually high concentrations of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

I'm wondering if it's alright to take up mega-vitamin therapy, or would
this push the ascorbic acid concentration high enough to cause false
readings?