Last night before I went to bed my throat was feeling super scratchy. I gargled with some salt water last night and again this morning. Does anyone else do this? I know gargling with salt water is good for helping relieve a sore throat, but a nurse recently told me it also discourages bacteria from growing in your mouth/throat. I figure it couldn’t hurt! If you’ve never heard of it, this article addresses gargling with salt water. 
It is wet and drizzly this morning, but that didn’t keep me inside. I went did 4.5 miles. I run slower in the rain because it’s slippery out. It is better to run slow than fall and get hurt.
Before I left I had a small bowl of cereal and some coffee. I’ve noticed that since I’m trying hard not to eat after dinner I end up waking up a little hungry. This may completely change my eating/running routine – I am playing it by ear for now, but will let you know if I switch up the order of breakfast and running. In the past I did not eat before short runs (only long runs).
My post run eats were an easy oatmeal pancake (recipe to come). I topped it with PB&PB (pumpkin butter). I also had some OJ and half a piece of toast with PB – I was hungry this morning!
I am downing some generic air borne drink and hoping I don’t get sick. I normally “tough it out” when I’m feeling sick by not taking any medication. Just recently I have started taking Ibuprofen when I have a running injury. I don’t know why I thought it’s good to be a martyr. F that. I’m off to take some DayQuil…
My family arrives around 4:30pm today!! It is going to be so much fun! Happy Tuesday 🙂
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I??m happy You mention in regards to this issue;
Gargling with salt water is common in my family for sore throats as well as canker sores. P.S. I ALWAYS wake up hungry!
Number 1 thing we’ve always done in my home. Gargle with salt and warm water! It truely works
Have fun with your family! Hope you don’t get sick- that’d suck! I swished once with salt water when I was a kid and it worked great but I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it again I don’t know why. Good job on not eating after dinner, waking up hungry is a good sign. Now if I could just follow in your footsteps… 🙂
Hey that oatmeal pancake looks great! I love one BIG pancake instead of stacking them together:) That makes me more fulfilling!
Have fun with your family! Sometimes those runs in the drizzly weather turn out to be the best. When I’m feeling something coming on I swear by a workout in the Hot Room (AKA Bikram Yoga). I was feeling scratchy on Saturday…I go to my Bikram class and come out feeling so much better. Sweat it out I guess? Happy Thanksgiving to you 🙂
way to get out there in the rain! enjoy the time with your family 🙂
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That pancake sounds good. Hope you feel better
I’m a salty gargler too. I swear by it!
I can’t work out in the morning. My body demands a full breakfast right away when I wake up! I work out right before dinner instead.
Feel better, and make sure you get lots of rest!!
I swear by the gargling with salt water thing too; I picked it up from assorted singing teachers over the years! 🙂
Salt water is SO not good to drink. I thought u were healthy?!
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Even though this request was kinda sick…
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you even look beautiful in the morning.. FEEL BETTER
My mom has made us gargle with salt water as long as I can remember — for some reason she also made us heat up the water, too. I’m not sure what that does. But that vodka remedy also sounds like a good time …. 🙂
I used to not take pain meds like aleve and stuff, but I’m my creaky old age I find myself popping them more often. Sometimes I feel like they don’t work though, which is why I never used tot ake them. I do take excedrin migrane when I have a headache. That stuff is a miracle.
Have fun with the fam!!
hope you feel better soon!
Ha yes I gargle! Oh my gosh my mother’s been making us do that since we were little – it’s gross but it works!
You might want to try gargling with Listerine to kill any bacteria in your throat. This probably isn’t a good idea, but a shot of alcohol (like vodka) will also do the trick. But who’s to say you couldn’t sip it with something a little more easier to swallow mixed in? Hope you feel better!
Kelly, thanks! (Goes off to grab the vodka…)
Oatmeal pancake looks awesome! I also used to not want to take medicine…whats the point of that though? 🙂