Can anyone recommend a really GOOD QUALITY multi-vitamin?

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No idea. The ones I take (cheapest on the shelf) are probably rubbish. My mum swears by Echinacea for boosting the immune system.

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I had serious tonsilitis when dd was born and got everything going - started taking echinacea and zinc as soon as I felt run down and honest have never had so much as a sniffle since - (dd is now 5!!) did stop taking it for a while last year but got really bad flu !! I don't take it all the time - mainly in winter and just take it for two weeks at a time then have a rest and also when I feel a bit run down - fab x

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Just Tesco - but have also had others from boots and asda, I really think they are all the same hth

zinc

I've been taking Elderberry Tincture (it was recommended by someone on here) and I've found it even better than echinacea for boosting the immune system.

I don't take it all the time, just if I'm feeling run down. At the first sign of a cold or virus I take the maximum dose until the symptoms go away. When I take it colds don't progress beyond a slight sniffle for a couple of days. I ran out about a fortnight ago and my current cold has turned into a nasty chesty cough, which is what used to happen nearly all the time.

I can't remember what brand it is, I get it from the health food shop in Greenwich market. I'm going to get some more tomorrow so I can let you know the brand then if you want.

If you sign up for Boots Health Club most of their value-pack vitamins are half-price - well, for the next couple of months anyway.

We use their multivitamins with iron (Complete A-Z I think they're called), vitamin C (500mg), omega 3, 6 & 9 oil, and evening primrose/cod liver oil - not all of them every day, but I notice the difference when I miss for a bit.

I take them with a glass of fruit juice, which helps with absorbing iron (prob doesn't make much diff to the other things).

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This is the one that I buy from my local heath food place. I swear by it now.

I think I'm like you in that I don't just get one thing, like a cold. This time the cold complication is a cough, a gungy eye and a pending ear infection. I've found that with the elderberry I still catch the colds, but they are mild and short and it doesn't go on to become an epidemic of other infections.

mega vit c doese my colds last a bout one day

i take 1000mg a day and then if i am getting a cold double for a couple of days

kills it

none

any vitamin you take that is surplus to requiremtns you piss out wanwyay

eat an organce fgs

ahiniea has been proven to do nothing
its all a waste of money

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infection
its jut slife
dont spend money on crap viatmins

what toem do you go to ebd

Sounds like you have a good diet anyways and so muti vit won't be a lot of good.. as usually water soluble vits just pass thro' system..

Lots of cold remedies on the shelf - some work better than others, but usually just a combo of vit c, ech.. and zinc.

Stupid question, but have you been under or are you partcularly stressed and pressured lately? Usually colds are just physical symptoms of stress??

all fo them do
otherwise you coudl od on vitamins coudlnt you.

waste of time
onyl damn fules take me

You're probably just coming into contact with people with infections more.
Do you work?
DP started bringing home tons mroe little cold/flu type viruses since he started a job in a new office, the air con is probably recycling the bloody germs.

the vitamin c thing is interesting yes they have done studies and no benefits have been proven but from my own experience it works for me

yes it is pruged from the body which why you need more than one mega dose in a day when you are developing a cold

vitamin c helps the body access other vits and minerals and when your body is under stress and creting an immune respoince it needs extra vit c

slow release is the other [possibility

it doesn't bother me if other people dont use supplements

i do and i am very rarely if ever ill

well physically anyway lol

you can od on vitamins

and minerals

there are toxicity limits eg vit a

you have to be careful

i use supplements to manage my mental health but i also use the food i eat to help and exercise

all those things also have the side effect of helping physical health

mental health and physical health are also to some extent working in concert

Solgar is what I take

Multivit, IMO it's the best there is.

I agree with zippi re vit C - when you have an infection your body needs far more vitamin C to fight it. If you only take the minimum you won't have nearly enough.

SofiaAmes is good on this - do a search - her father is a scientist who knows about all this stuff (unlike cod) and he recommends taking them!

You have to be careful with A, D & E which are not water-soluble and will not be flushed away (A is the dodgiest)