[HANASHIR:15436] Re: Of Larynxgitis

[Jeff & Marcie Jonas <jonasfamily...>]

Here's my non-medical approach to laryngitis:  An apple a day!  I know it 
sounds trite but for me it works.  I read somewhere (maybe in an asthma 
magazine or article) that the vitamins and nutrients in an apple keep things 
constant in your throat and lungs.  My son has asthma and he and I both have an 
apple a day to maintain our upper respiratory  health.  This does not replace 
his inhalers but we find that it does keep things in check.  Maybe it has to do 
with keeping down a post-nasal drip, I don't know. It is not a quick fix for 
laryngitis but if you maintain eating an apple a day in the weeks prior to Rosh 
Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it might help.  Plus it tastes good and there are no 
negative side effects.
-Marcie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carol Boyd Leon 
  To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org 
  Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:53 AM
  Subject: [HANASHIR:15419] Re: Of Laryngitis


  Using prednisone for laryngitis can have its drawbacks.  The last time I had 
  laryngitis and really needed my voice for singing, I went on it, too, as I'd 
  done before.  But this time it allowed other problems to develop -- namely, 
  an ear infection.  So I paid for having a voice on Shabbat by having an 
  earache the next day plus additional doctor's bills....

  Life's really not fair, is it?

  -- Carol Boyd Leon


  ----Original Message Follows----
  From: "Francine Berg" <songberg (at) hotmail(dot)com>
  Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
  To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
  Subject: [HANASHIR:15410] Re: Of Laryngitis
  Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:21:20 -0400

  Hello fellow singers,
     If you are suffering from laryngitis, and getting very close to the 
  holidays,  I go to my ENT, and get on a 6 day pack of prednisone.  It works 
  wonders, and as long as this is not used alot, there will not be any 
  long-lasting side effects.  I have had to on this "stuff" for many a 
  holiday, since September and October are very bad allergy times for me.  It 
  is the wonder drug for singers!!!!!!!  Francine Berg  Syracuse

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