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Cold and Flu Management for Singers

Now, we’re going to lead straight off from where we left off last week and we’re going to be talking and covering cold and flu management.

We all know how frustrating it is to have a cold or a flu and have to stop practicing, stop rehearsing… stop doing what we love which is sing. And subsequently we can lose technique, precious time, not learning songs and lyrics and whatever it is for the performance that we are preparing for and it is very frustrating and not fun.

The techniques that I am going to give you here is going to greatly help you out to get you back up on your feet as quickly as we possibly can.

  1. If you feel a cold coming on get on to every I am going to tell you here on Day one – that’s the most important I can give you, not 2, 3,4,5,6 days down the track because it’s no good then when the cold and flu has full grip. This is so we can nip it in a bud before it gets worse and blows out to something bigger.
  1. Now the main point about when you are sick is stay hydrated (room temperature water). Drink as much as you possibly can so we can flash the system and the bug out. When you’re cold and sick, you don’t want to sometimes drink especially water but please stay hydrated as it is very important.
  1. Load up a lot of Vitamin C – that’s the next thing. Get this from fruits, get it from the natural sauce, buy a bag of oranges or kiwi fruit as it is very high in Vitamin C. Have 6, 7 or 8 of these a day. If you don’t like fruit, please go to the chemist and buy some ascorbic acid powder but its better if you get them in a natural source. # fact, Guava has has the most vitamin C out of any fruit or vegetable.
  1. Good quality of vitamins or supplements are also very important. I personally take a good quality multivitamin when I’m sick. I take B Vitamins, cod liver oil tablets, cold eeze tablets. These cold eeze tablets have got zinc, Echinacea, vitamin C and garlic in them, you can get these from your health food stores.
  1. Load up onions or garlic – these really build your immune system up. Yes, your partner and your family aren’t going to like this because you’re going to smell but you’re going to feel the difference, it really works wonders.
  1. Olive leaf extract or Echinacea extract in a liquid form is very good. I have got some students that absolutely believe in both of these. They take these and they never have colds. When they feel that symptoms of colds coming along, they start taking these and it never builds into anything substantial.
  1. If I have a sore throat, I gargled betadine throat gargle – it’s absolutely fantastic, I gargle this a couple of times every hour. If I am not able to gargle betadine as a substitute, I will gargle warm salty water as well.
  1. Good Quality throat lozenges not lollies. Anything that has an antibacterial agent in it. I highly recommend strepsils, strepfen, throat clear, difflam and betadine throat lozenges. Please avoid any lozenges that have mental or eucalyptus in them as they can strip the natural mucus lining of the vocal chords off.
  1. Rest – very important when you have a cold or flu because your body is fighting an allergy. So get as much rest vocally and physically as you can so that your body can go to work and try to get rid of what it’s fighting as quickly as you can.

A couple of other facts here:

  • A common cold is going to last between 5-7 days, your common flu from 7-10 unless you’re abusing yourself. But if you are doing every thing I told you above, it might well only last 1 or 2 days. So try these things that I gave you here, see what works for you so that you can eliminate your cold as quickly as possible.
  • If you’re cold or flu is lasting longer or you’ve got sick very quickly and if you’re coughing up different colored phlegm – it’s not clear, it might be green or grey in color please go to your doctor. This is a definite sign that you have some sort of infection, ask your doctor to give you some antibiotics so that as a semiprofessional/professional singer, you could get rid of this as quickly as you can and to make sure it does not turn into something worse like laryngitis.

Hope these handy hints have helped you out so that you can keep singing. Thanks for joining us and we’ll see you next week!

Peter Vox

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