Last one to post........... Part 19

[HannahHammer]

Yes! my 410 post has come!

 

[HannahHammer]

It goes by way to fast

 

[Mom2Ashli]

We need to switch weekdays for weekends. We work 2 days and have 5 off.

 

[kelljacques@aol.com]

I hope you feel better!!

thanks kelli..... I am off to bed~~

 

[kelljacques@aol.com]

We need to switch weekdays for weekends. We work 2 days and have 5 off.

sounds good!!! see what ou can do about it!!

 

[HannahHammer]

We need to switch weekdays for weekends. We work 2 days and have 5 off.

LOL i agree

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Hopefully some rest will help you.

Have you tried that product called Airborne. It is made for teacher or by teacher or something like that. It is supposed to stop or help with a cold.


Sick of getting sick? Taken at the first sign of a cold or before entering a crowded or germ-filled environment, Airborne offers hours maximum vitamin and herbal support. This natural formula contains 17 ingredients, including vitamin C and zinc.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Victoria Knight-McDowell holds a glass or her cold remedy Airborne at her office in Carmel, Calif., Jan. 28, 2003.(A.P.)

Out with the cold
Teacher serves up possible remedy

By Rachel Konrad
Associated Press

CARMEL, Calif. -- Victoria Knight-McDowell spent years brewing herbs and swallowing vitamin cocktails to ward off students' bacteria, but the second-grade teacher couldn't vanquish one of the world's most common plagues.
"I'd catch a cold and it would last three months," Knight-McDowell said. "All winter, I'd be sick, from one cold to the next. I decided children's germs must somehow be more virulent than adults' germs."

She refined her herbal-vitamin remedies throughout the early 1990s, experimenting with vitamins C, E and A, as well as zinc, selenium and herbs including forsythia, ginger, isatis root and echinacea.

After nearly two years without a cold, she realized she had come up with the proper proportions for her potion. She called it Airborne and decided others needed a dose.

Knight-McDowell sold the first package of an effervescent cold tablet in January 1997 to a local drug store, Surf & Sand.

Later that year, Knight-McDowell's screenwriter husband, Rider McDowell, received $170,000 for writing and producing a holiday movie, "The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue." The couple decided not to invest the money in the stock market -- despite the technology boom in nearby Silicon Valley -- but instead in Airborne. They also cashed out their retirement savings.

"Our families thought we had gone round the bend," Knight-McDowell said. "They wanted us to do something responsible, like buy a house. They thought we were mad."

But less than a year later, specialty grocery chain Trader Joe's ordered 300 cases of Airborne -- a $75,000 receipt that forced Knight-McDowell, still teaching second grade, to affix 1,000 package labels every night for several weeks to ship the order on time.

In September 1999, Longs Drugs ordered more, and the company leased a warehouse in nearby Monterey, and order fulfillment centers in Placentia and in Naperville, Ill.

Airborne is now sold at Wal-Mart, Rite Aid and Jewel-Osco, and it's the No. 1 cold and flu remedy at Drugstore.com.

Sales in 2002 increased 300 percent, the owner says. Knight-McDowell Labs, which has expanded into Airborne Jr. and Sore Throat Gummis for kids, is expected to have revenue of more than $10 million for the fiscal year that ends in April.

That's a mere sniffle in the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, dominated by conglomerates such as Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc. Neither corporation has anything on the market similar to Airborne, and spokesmen for both companies said researchers were more focused on traditional medicines, such as penicillin and pain killers.

But Airborne's gangbuster growth is nothing to sneeze at, and experts say its success could signal a turning point for the rapidly growing alternative medicine industry. Once considered a niche popular with the yoga and macrobiotics crowd, herbal therapies and preventive remedies are increasingly common among mainstream Americans.

"The goal in Western medicine is to diagnose the situation and eradicate the disease -- kill it with antibacterials, numb it with pain killers," said alternative medicine expert Dr. John Douillard, author of "Body, Mind and Sport" and "The 3-Season Diet." "Alternative medicine is more likely to pose questions about why and how we get the diseases in the first place, and how to prevent them. People are finally realizing that it's easier to prevent sickness than eradicate it once it strikes."

As an herbal remedy that doesn't claim to cure colds once they develop, Airborne didn't need Food and Drug Administration approval before being marketed to consumers, and has never been tested by the FDA.

But an independent study has shown promising results.

GNG Pharmaceutical Services Inc., a testing company based in Sugarloaf, Fla., administered Airborne and a placebo to 120 adults within 24 hours of the onset of the symptoms of an upper respiratory infection.

Researchers classified 47 percent of the Airborne recipients in last year's clinical trial as "full responders" -- people whose symptoms completely or almost completely disappeared after taking Airborne for five days. By contrast, 77 percent of the people who took placebos developed colds, and only 9 percent saw their symptoms completely or almost completely disappear after five days with a phony pill.

GNG Vice President Randy Brown, who said 120 people was an adequate sample size, called the results "outstanding."

"We were pretty surprised to see that the response rate was so high. It blew our minds, to be honest," Brown said from his office in Kansas City, Mo. "They gave me a bunch of samples, so I started using it when I travel. I was stunned to see that it worked on me, too. ... There's no doubt in my mind that the product is efficacious."

 

[HannahHammer]

Im getting a little tired

 

[HannahHammer]

417th post....

 

[Mom2Ashli]

I am working really hard not to get sick.

Lots and Lots of hand washing and vitamins.

 

[HannahHammer]

and 418th post....

 

[Mom2Ashli]

I am going to try and pack tomorrow night.

DD has dance on Tuesday, Brownies on Wed and I have a meeting on Thurs.

Another busy week for me.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

 

[HannahHammer]

Nothing really going on...

 

[HannahHammer]

Good night people im going to bed.

See you tommorrow

 

[eeyoresmountainpals]

Hi everyone! Just thought I'd say hello. Our internet went down around 1:00 and just came back up. Can't read back right now, hope I haven't missed much.

I'm heading to bed. See you in the a.m. if the internet cooperates!

 

[Mom2Ashli]

 

[trappednabox]

I get home and no one's here I guess I'll see ya in the morning

 

[ckckc2000]

finally I made it back