Comments on: Cold http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/cold/ falling indelibly into the past Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:41:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/cold/#comment-605 KF Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:47:05 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=320#comment-605 <p>Trust me when I say that my experience with post-nasal drip is a long and rich one.  Growing up in Louisiana with serious allergies (one of the times I went through the scratch test—there were multiple iterations—the doctor included “grass and trees” in his litany of things I’m allergic to.  I asked which ones.  He said “all of them") I had a chronic drip that was No Fun Whatsoever.  Which is why the return of that particular sensation always comes over me like a portent of doom. </p> <p> On a wholly other note, though, I also grew up kind of creeped out by the term “post-nasal drip,” which always sounded a bit too much like a brand name to me (the echo being Post Toasties, I suppose)… </p> Trust me when I say that my experience with post-nasal drip is a long and rich one.  Growing up in Louisiana with serious allergies (one of the times I went through the scratch test—there were multiple iterations—the doctor included “grass and trees” in his litany of things I’m allergic to.  I asked which ones.  He said “all of them”) I had a chronic drip that was No Fun Whatsoever.  Which is why the return of that particular sensation always comes over me like a portent of doom.

On a wholly other note, though, I also grew up kind of creeped out by the term “post-nasal drip,” which always sounded a bit too much like a brand name to me (the echo being Post Toasties, I suppose)…

]]> By: jeremy hunsinger http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/cold/#comment-604 jeremy hunsinger Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:20:10 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=320#comment-604 <p>that is post-nasal drip.. it causes that soft palate irritation.  easiest cure is spicy food until your nose runes like a faucet. </p> that is post-nasal drip.. it causes that soft palate irritation.  easiest cure is spicy food until your nose runes like a faucet.

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