Best remedy: eat a lot of weird/dirty stuff as kid. Kids need to get dirty, all those hygenic handsoaps are a farce, they undermine the bodie's ability to form a decent immune system. I ignore being sick, it always diminishes to a bit of a cold. Only got real flu 2 times in my life, never had antibiotics...I rule... 
I agree. I was outside getting dirty all the time as a kid all the way up to my freshman year in h.s. and I never get sick *knocks on wood table* My kid sister got prescribed tetracycline, I think it was, for acne and about a year later when she went off to college, she got sick and stayed that way. I've never even gotten my hepatitis shots. If you take a lot of antibiotics all the time, I think your body loses it defenses once you get sick and then it's really hard to get better. I don't know if you stop, if your body eventually bounces back or not. I say, if you're going to try to boost your immune system, go herbal, don't go to your doctor for a prescription made in a lab. Last time I got really sick it was cuz I decided to drink the water out of the de-humidifier in the basement during the summer becuz I figured it would save my mom money from the water bill. The very next day and for the following two weeks I was sick as a dog with a hacking cough. Hehe. Never do that, especially from the basement (mold, mildew, dust, etc. in the air). Not even if you put it through a Brita filter first and boil it which I did. Coincidence?
