Got a cold? Here's a rather unique cure.

[NuclearNed]

I have a couple of buddies who are members of a local SWAT team. One of these guys works out virtually every night at the gym where I go. These are both really intelligent men, but they are both pretty intense and hard-core, so I have every reason to believe that the following is true.

Apparently "Bob" had a really bad cold, and was suffering from it greatly. Since he's such a trooper, he was still coming in to work, even though he was more or less dead on his feet. That particular day, the members of the SWAT team were at their training facility doing exercises, and "Bob" decided that he had had enough. He looked at the rest of the team and stated that he "was going to fix this cold once and for all."

"Bob", being the man's man that he is, acquired a tear gas cannister from the supply area and proceeded to the tear gas training building, where he shut himself inside. Several long, painful minutes later, he emerged from the building cold free, with all his mucus membranes a-flowing freely. Apparently (and I quote) "he had snot hanging all the way from his nose to the ground - literally." After a quick blow of each nostril, "Bob" went on about his day feeling much better.

The guy who told me this story said that the next day, "Bob" was completely cured of his cold.

 

[Cattlegod]

Thought this was going to end up with a punch line and turn out to be a joke

 

[dug777]

o rly?

well i'll just grab that tear gas canister i've got in the laundry then

 

[Looney]

Complete BS. Teargas doesn't work like that... it feels like you're choking on chlorine gas. What MIGHT be plausible is mace/pepperspray... whoever made up this story obviously got the two effects mixed up.

 

[Schadenfreude]

:roll:

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Looney
Complete BS. Teargas doesn't work like that... it feels like you're choking on chlorine gas. What MIGHT be plausible is mace/pepperspray... whoever made up this story obviously got the two effects mixed up.

Actually, its more likely I got that detail mixed up. The guy who told it to me may have said mace/pepperspray - I can't remember.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Looney
Complete BS. Teargas doesn't work like that... it feels like you're choking on chlorine gas. What MIGHT be plausible is mace/pepperspray... whoever made up this story obviously got the two effects mixed up.

Actually, its more likely I got that detail mixed up. The guy who told it to me may have said mace/pepperspray - I can't remember.

Even then, just because you clear your sinus, doesn't mean the cold virus has been eradicated from your body.

 

[Syrch]

good stuff if true

 

[quakefiend420]

sounds like we need to do some experimentation...who's gonna take one for the team?

 

[dug777]

i think you should quake

ya rly, i do

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Shens

 

[Injury]

tear gas, from what I understand, really just causes the eyes to burn in a non-damaging fashion, making the chemicals in the air force someone to either keep their eyes shut to avoid the pain of the burning, or open them and be forced to have their eyes covered in tears while they burn like hell.

I may be wrong, though.

Either way, I'd rather have a sissy little cold and pop a dayquil or two and be on my way.

 

[Aimster]

watch fear factor

even with your eyes closed it will hurt like hell.

 

[Papagayo]

You can do the same thing at home..
snort some tobasco sauce..

 

[Biggerhammer]

I experienced a similar case - I was in the army, and in basic training we went through the gas chamber (CS tear gas). I'd had a cold before and I didn't afterwards. I don't think that I would deliberately do that to myself, but it did stop the cold for me.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Biggerhammer
I experienced a similar case - I was in the army, and in basic training we went through the gas chamber (CS tear gas). I'd had a cold before and I didn't afterwards. I don't think that I would deliberately do that to myself, but it did stop the cold for me.

All right, now I'm pretty sure that it actually was tear gas and not mace/pepper spray like someone else suggested because the guy who told me the story used the phrase "CS cannister".

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I don't know if it will cure a cold, but it will sure as hell clear out the stuff in your nose. Pepper / OC spray just makes those membranes hurt. It doesn't make you produce snot, etc. Not like tear gas does.

And yes, this is from experience. And the OC spray was much more painful.

 

[vedavox]

in basic they used CS gas in the chamber and we had snot everywhere. that stuff really cleans out your nose!

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
sounds like we need to do some experimentation...who's gonna take one for the team?

Done it.

We have to go into the CS (Military Grade tear-gas) Gas hut for our annual Nuclear Biological Chemical Defence (NBCD) training.

The first time I went in, my mask worked fine. Just got crazy ichy wherever there was unprotected moisture. Felt like there were fire ants on my body.

Second time, we had to feel the effects before the mask went on. It didn't seal properly. I was on my hands and knees while someone fastened it properly. Pain doesn't BEGIN to describe what it's like. That burning was in my lungs, my eyes, mouth, face...beyond horrible. And the mucus did flow, but it didn't clear my sinuses

if you went into a CS chamber unprotected and you wern't used to it, you'd pass out, possibly die.

 

[ViperXX]

It was CS gas. I've been gased a few times (TRT training). The snot flows like a water fall. It also burns really bad any where you sweat. Your arm pits, back, crotch, so on and so forth. It also makes you feel like you can't breathe and your eyes burn. Best way to remove the effects is to stand facing the wind and let the wind clear it from your body. I think water makes it worse.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I have a couple of buddies who are members of a local SWAT team. One of these guys works out virtually every night at the gym where I go. These are both really intelligent men, but they are both pretty intense and hard-core, so I have every reason to believe that the following is true.

Apparently "Bob" had a really bad cold, and was suffering from it greatly. Since he's such a trooper, he was still coming in to work, even though he was more or less dead on his feet. That particular day, the members of the SWAT team were at their training facility doing exercises, and "Bob" decided that he had had enough. He looked at the rest of the team and stated that he "was going to fix this cold once and for all."

"Bob", being the man's man that he is, acquired a tear gas cannister from the supply area and proceeded to the tear gas training building, where he shut himself inside. Several long, painful minutes later, he emerged from the building cold free, with all his mucus membranes a-flowing freely. Apparently (and I quote) "he had snot hanging all the way from his nose to the ground - literally." After a quick blow of each nostril, "Bob" went on about his day feeling much better.

The guy who told me this story said that the next day, "Bob" was completely cured of his cold.

that won't get rid of the cold, it might clear out your passages though

 

[Mucho]

There is no cure for the common cold!

 

[Ojopwned]

I can vouch for this method. I've done it personally... Twice. In Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, I was sick as a dog on the day we went for gas mask training. Definitely had a fever. Also coughing, nose running, sneezing, sinuses, and basically on the verge of death trying to do boot camp with a cold, avoiding the clinic for fear of being rolled back in training. After 5 minutes or less in the gas chamber and a bucket of snot later, I was completely healthy with ZERO cold symptoms for the rest of boot camp.

The next cold I had, I decided to test my theory. I got a friend to hook me up with a visit to the base gas chamber. Sick as a dog, breathed CS gas for a few minutes (if you can call that breathing), and came out as healthy as an ox ready to run a marathon.

I don't know how it works, but I imagine the trillions of microscopic shards of glass scraping your sinuses as clean as the day of your birth has something to do with it.

But trust me when I say this: CS gas does in fact cure the common cold like a Harry Potter spell.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's good to know for next time I have a cold... now where would a civilian get ahold of CS gas?

I find ever since I started keeping my beard nearly year round I don't get colds. Supposedly the bacteria that lives in a beard will actually kill a cold before it gets into your body. I thought it was a myth but I'm kind of believing it now. I always get sick at this time of year and I've been good for several years in a row now.

 

[highland145]

That's good to know for next time I have a cold... now where would a civilian get ahold of CS gas?

I find ever since I started keeping my beard nearly year round I don't get colds. Supposedly the bacteria that lives in a beard will actually kill a cold before it gets into your body. I thought it was a myth but I'm kind of believing it now. I always get sick at this time of year and I've been good for several years in a row now.

Bear mace should work.