Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Craig Maltby, Editor
Summer crud is setting in…another immune test awaits
UPDATE 2:20 PM CST (about 17 hours later). Well, seems there’s improvement. Chest is better, nose is clearing, head is not as dizzy (no comment from my friends, please). Somehow I knew and was hoping that this summer crud onset would just be a fleeting thing that’s on the way out within a day or so. That’s usually the way things go with me, whether allergy, summer cold or winter crud. The immune balance phenomenon continues to amaze! And, the published research on EpiCor so far has mirrored this very experience. Study participants report significant reduction in cold, flu and allergy symptom severity and/or duration.
Original Post OK, I feel like crap today. I’ve been in New York City the past week, walking all over kingdom come in 90 degree 
weather with killer humidity. In and out of air conditioning. In and out of boiling subway tunnels.
I came home to Des Moines two days ago, which welcomed me to 98 degree weather with killer humidity. Plus some flooding to boot, though my suburban area did not get hit.
Now, some kind of sinus irritation has set in. It has the potential makings of a classic summer cold. Thick feeling head, heavy chest, raspy voice. I was out to dinner tonight with my wife and kids. My daughters said I was spacing out, staring into a zone, acting kind of out of it.
The key is, can my immune system…going on 2.5 years with EpiCor… make this be nothing more than a short-lived irritation that doesn’t balloon into a flow-blown crud attack that takes 10 days to kick? I think so. We shall see. I’ve taken no OTC meds, though I did use a little nose spray last night. I also had a beer with my brother after work, which probably did not help, either.
