Cure for the Common Cold

[Idolfan]

ZOMG I read in the daily mail yesterday that there was one. Yes, that paper again. I can't help it it's so addictive to read. It said that a pill had been developed which has been proven to remove all the symptoms of a cold and so far I haven't found any evidence on the net to back this up. Plus I found it rather odd as to why it wasn't front page news. Wouldn't CURE FOR COMMON COLD! AMAZING MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT be exciting enough for people! Are the editors just being assholes and playing with us! I'm tearing my hear out!!!!!

[Never]

In truth that does not sound like a cure. At present you can eliminate cold symptoms with enough over the counter medicine. A "cure" is not something that medicine is capable of; it merely hides the symptoms until the body does the curing. If it is one of the better medicines, it actually aids the body, but in the case of cold medicine, it only makes you feel better while actually harming you; however slightly. Perhaps I am splitting hairs.

[drewmandan]

A cure isn't impossible; it just requires a level of technology that we don't have right now. A cure for the cold would involve injestion of specially tailored molecules that would target and destroy the infected cells and the viruses.

[Schmaven]

A cure isn't impossible; it just requires a level of technology that we don't have right now. A cure for the cold would involve injestion of specially tailored molecules that would target and destroy the infected cells and the viruses. That's more like amputation. A cure would be something that would repair and disinfect the affected cells.

[Taosaur]

That's more like amputation. A cure would be something that would repair and disinfect the affected cells. No, a cure would dry the affected cells, probably by smoking, to seal in their flavor.

[drewmandan]

That's more like amputation. A cure would be something that would repair and disinfect the affected cells. Oh? I wasn't aware that legs grew back in mere days, like cells.

[nitsuJ]

Oh? I wasn't aware that legs grew back in mere days, like cells. if you're lizardman it does!

[Schmaven]

Oh? I wasn't aware that legs grew back in mere days, like cells. Well I wouldn't consider eliminating any infested cell or virus a good thing. Sure, eliminate dead cells, but damaged cells can be repaired. And who said anything about legs growing back? My point is if you have a lot of infested cells, and you eliminate all of them, you will have no cells left in that area with which to rebuild. It's like having a lamp repair shop, but using a shot gun as your only tool to fix lamps. Sure, you can just blow it away and buy a new one, but that's not fixing it.

[nitsuJ]

Well I wouldn't consider eliminating any infested cell or virus a good thing. Sure, eliminate dead cells, but damaged cells can be repaired. And who said anything about legs growing back? My point is if you have a lot of infested cells, and you eliminate all of them, you will have no cells left in that area with which to rebuild. It's like having a lamp repair shop, but using a shot gun as your only tool to fix lamps. Sure, you can just blow it away and buy a new one, but that's not fixing it. you compared it to amputation, he said the thing about legs growing back because our body can make new cells. (grow them back)

[werwun]

Who the hell would want a cure? A cold is the best excuse for time off work!

[Mes Tarrant]

I say halt all the finding a cure for the common cold nonsense and focus on viruses that actually do significant harmszszssz.

[nitsuJ]

I say halt all the finding a cure for the common cold nonsense and focus on viruses that actually do significant harmszszssz. yes, i agree. even though the common cold is highly contagious, it's nothing that some liquids and rest can't beat within a day or so.

[Mes Tarrant]

Yar, precisely. And it'd be even easier if more people washed their hands.

[nitsuJ]

Yar, precisely. And it'd be even easier if more people washed their hands. yes, i wash my hands a lot and my parents used to think i was verminophobic and then i'd bring up the point that i'm hardly ever sick either and then they caught my drift for why i wash them a lot. i'd say the past.. 10 years if not more, i've only been sick to where i went to the doctor only once, and i could of toughed that out but didn't want to, it was a bad sinus infection. if people had better hygiene they'd be surprised how little they'd get sick!! there are other viruses that do need to be researched more though that something as weak as the common cold

[Idolfan]

Good point, I had not even wondered why science had apparently not been focusing on worse diseases. And thank god the thread got back on track or we'd be amputating people's noses. GOD sometimes I wish that could be done actually!

[cuddleyperson]

Well I wouldn't consider eliminating any infested cell or virus a good thing. Sure, eliminate dead cells, but damaged cells can be repaired. And who said anything about legs growing back? My point is if you have a lot of infested cells, and you eliminate all of them, you will have no cells left in that area with which to rebuild. It's like having a lamp repair shop, but using a shot gun as your only tool to fix lamps. Sure, you can just blow it away and buy a new one, but that's not fixing it. Well then you must be pissed at your T killer cells! Going around and destroying your own cells, the ones with virus's and bacteria inside them. They could be saved somehow but oh no those T cells engulf and destroy them!

[werwun]

Who here wants space-age technology?

[Schmaven]

Those bastard T cells, how dare they!!! I knew I shouldn't've been playing around with all those leaky T-Virus vials. I admit, I don't know jack sh!t about biology. Excuse my ignorance, I was wrong. To keep from getting sick, nutrition is even more important than hygiene in my book. If your body is healthy and doesn't have nutritional deficiencies, it should be able to fight off most of the germs that cause the common colds and such.

[Half/Dreaming]

The cure for the common cold has already been found. It is chicken noodle soup, Dayquil, a few kisses from mommy, and Sprite. This is old news.

[nitsuJ]

The cure for the common cold has already been found. It is chicken noodle soup, Dayquil, a few kisses from mommy, and Sprite. This is old news. what if the kids mommy drinks all of the dayquil and gets messed up and falls into the hot chicken noodle soup, then in a hurry to get her face under cold water knocks over sprite and slips up in it and flips around and lands on her neck and dies?

[Schmaven]

what if the kids mommy drinks all of the dayquil and gets messed up and falls into the hot chicken noodle soup, then in a hurry to get her face under cold water knocks over sprite and slips up in it and flips around and lands on her neck and dies? Then those kids are probably part of a final destination movie. If I remember correctly, they made 3 Final Destination movies. The 3rd was by far the shittiest. I thought the second one was good though.

[nitsuJ]

i've seen all 3, yes the third was terrible, 2nd was decent, 1st was best

[Idolfan]

Extended discussion indeed.