Saturday, February 18, 2012
Does this make any sense? Probably not.
Random thought, most likely invalid. Yesterday's bad experience with a decongestant made me ponder the alternatives. Not just the weird little trip, but the decongesting itself. Trying to get all the mucus out means extra coughing and blowing, thus extra inflammation of the airways and extra soreness in abdominal muscles. Makes it harder to cough and blow when really needed.
I asked: Why is this good? Practice what you so tiresomely preach, boy. Trust subsidiarity and negative feedback; let the body make its own decisions.
Let the mucus dry instead of wetting it down, and try for as much sleep as possible.
And in fact this seems to work better.
Maybe there's an analogy to healing a wound. You don't want to keep it bleeding. You want to insure that the worst stuff is out, then expose it to air, let the scab form, don't disturb it.
Substitute mucus for scab. ¶ 1:37 AM
I asked: Why is this good? Practice what you so tiresomely preach, boy. Trust subsidiarity and negative feedback; let the body make its own decisions.
Let the mucus dry instead of wetting it down, and try for as much sleep as possible.
And in fact this seems to work better.
Maybe there's an analogy to healing a wound. You don't want to keep it bleeding. You want to insure that the worst stuff is out, then expose it to air, let the scab form, don't disturb it.
Substitute mucus for scab. ¶ 1:37 AM
