 Poster: A snowHead
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Risk factors are : Lots of people in a crowded area, some of whom will be actively shedding virus. Bone dry cooled air improves virus transmission. Dry mucous membranes in your nose have reduced resistance to infection, because the usual mechanism of mucus being moved by the surface cilia doesn't operate. You are generallyu pretty knackered before your holiday so your immune system may be at a low ebb.
Top tips: Echinacea may work, but don't take it for more than 2 weeks at a time. Keep your mucous membranes moist with a saline spray (or steam, green tea, vaseline around your nose) and stay well hydrated. Hand hygeine with soap AND alcohol gels helpful (but not in your nose!) Travel away from the heaving masses (train, car, first class). Tea tree and Eucalyptus oils both have antiviral properties, but the airline staff get a bit twitched about your essential oil burner mid flight. Take a holiday before you go skiing, or early nights, no booze, good diet, don't overtrain etc to keep your immune system tip top,
Bottom line is you probably got it before you got on the plane anyway.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Martin Nicholas, For the big party sHs who indulge in plenty of powder the saline nasal sprays may be doubly welcome 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Jonpim, I, like many quacks, rarely follow the advice I give. So same planet as you mate 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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