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Now that we’re into Fall, *ahem*, the cold and flu season, you can most assuredly count on catching some form of sickness or another. Yes… accompanying all of the wonderful experiences fall brings each year… sadly, THIS is one of them.

My family and I have already begun to contract our share of “the season”, involving the terrible head-cold, sore throat and light fever. Being the germ freak that I am, I tried everything in my power to avoid it, but, when it’s running through your family… you better face it, it’s pretty much hopeless.

You see, when the youngest two of my siblings catch a cold, we can be certain that they will not sleep through the night. This is unfortunate for my mom, who is the one up dealing with all of the sniffling and moaning, and coughing and groaning coming from the two rooms next to hers. (Kelly and I have our rooms in the basement, lucky for us).

Last year my mom happened to get the email below from my grandma.  It said that Vicks Vapor Rub would stop the coughing when applied to the soles of your feet.  Well, it just so happened that Ryan and Kristina had a cold at the time and couldn’t sleep because of their cough.  My mom thought she had nothing to lose, so she went in and rubbed it on their feet (actually we used Breathe Better Rub) which is similar, put their socks on and would you believe, they went to sleep and quit coughing.  The next night she did the same thing and they slept through the night.  The third night she forgot Kristina’s feet and while my mom was in bed she could hear Kristina coughing and coughing.  My mom went into her room and while she was still asleep rubbed the Breathe Better Rub on her feet, put socks on and covered her up.  Five minutes later, no more coughing.  Strange but true. 
 
Now my mom thinks ahead and puts it on their feet the first night they get a cold.  However, the other night my mom was woken up by Ryan who was coughing like crazy. (She had forgotten his feet.)  She went in there, lathered the rub on the bottom of his feet, covered them with socks, and within minutes he was sleeping peacefully. My mom highly recommends this and has found nothing else that has worked so wonderfully as Breathe Better Rub..

You might want to keep this in your medicine cabinet this year.

Breathe Better Rub – the all-natural herbal rub that clears sinuses, relieves nasal congestion, and alleviates breathing discomfort (and stops the coughing). It consists of the ingredients: Rosemary oil, Lavender oil, Peppermint oil, Eucalyptus, Menthol, Camphor oil, Beeswax and Canola oil.

Here is a copy of the email my mom received:

VICKS VAPOR RUB – COUGHING Email

VICKS VAPOR RUB
During a lecture on Essential Oils, they told us how the foot soles can absorb oils. Their example: Put garlic on your feet and within 20 minutes you can ‘taste’ it.

Some of us have used Vicks Vapor rub for years for everything from chapped lips to sore toes and many body parts in between. But I’ve never heard of this. And don’t laugh, it works 100% of the time, although the scientists who discovered it aren’t sure why. To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks Vapor rub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime, then cover with socks. Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly.
Just happened to tune in A.M. Radio and picked up this guy talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good, due to the chemical makeup of these strong drugs so, I listened. It was a surprise finding and found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime, in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.
My wife tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and persistent cough a few weeks ago and it worked 100%! She said that it felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her, coughing stopped in a few minutes and believe me, this was a deep, ( incredibly annoying!) every few seconds uncontrollable cough, and she slept cough-free for hours every night that she used it.
If you have grandchildren, pass this on. If you end up sick, try it yourself and you will be absolutely amazed at how it works. 

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