I just choked and wrote a lot. But guess the damn internet "chokes" too. Coz what I wrote was too sad. So, let's not trying to do it anymore. Life needs to move forward and keep going on.
Conclusion: A randomized, controlled 5-year trial suggests that vitamin C supplementation significantly reduces the frequency of the common cold but had no apparent effect on the duration or severity of the common cold. However, considering several limitations due to protocol amendment, the findings should be interpreted with caution.
Luhua, you did right thing to stay home. If you go to work today, not only you will have hard time to concentrate, you will make mistakes and make you miserable. In addition, you will spread pathogens to everybody and make the others sick as well. So it is no good at all to do a reluctant job. There, you should feel less guilt to call in sick. Hope you recover soon.
Luhua, call in for sick leave for tonight shift and have a break. I understand most of residents never call in for sick leave, because they worried that the other doctor will have to see more pts and cover for her/him. But if you are sick, you can't function normally and recover slowly. You will have chance to pay back later when other is sick. BTW, monday night ER usually is much lighter than weekend shifts, attending should be able to handle it even without residents. Take care.
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I used to be sick very often, IV every 3 months because of the upper resperitory tract infection. After I came here, I seldom feel sick, at most take some cold medicine. I think because the air is much more clean than in China. So do not worry , have a good rest and you will be fine soon.
1) personal experience and literature review
当出现感冒的早期症状,如喉咙感觉异常,可以按一次2-5克,每天3次,饭后服。即能把早期症状压下来,即使咳嗽,流涕,发烧,也能缩短病程,症状减轻,感觉上没那么难受。 服食后,于小肠吸收,当身体内达到饱和后,则不再吸收。维生素C到大肠后,引起蠕动加快,肠鸣增加,若过剩量激增,可引起腹泻,这是唯一的副作用。所以,当有肠鸣增加时,表示体内饱和了,可停服。
2) SUMMARY:
- The effect of ASCORBIC ACID supplementation on
severity and duration of cold symptoms has been
repeatedly, though not consistently, shown to be measurable and statistically significant
3) ADULT:
a) Most controlled trials have found no significant effect of ASCORBIC ACID on the incidence of colds, except for individuals under heavy acute physical stress. However, the effect of ASCORBIC ACID supplementation on severity and duration of cold symptoms has been repeatedly, though not consistently, shown to be measurable and statistically significant, with a median decrease of 22% compared to placebo (Hemila, 1997a). Some authorities have called these effects minor at best (AMA, 1986). Significant reductions in incidence of pneumonia with ASCORBIC ACID supplementation has been reported in 3 studies, including a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (Hemila, 1997b).