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« Reply #15 on: Feb 16, 2006, 11:36 pm »
Airborne is good to use, but be careful with zicam. I got sick during  tech week of the world premiere we did of Aida: Student Edition. (definitely one of the worst possible times my body could have picked to hate me) Anyways...I took the swabs. A few hours later my face and half my torso went numb. At the ER I found out Zicam isn't approved by the FDA. It's considered homeopathic so it doesn't require their approval. I forgot what it is, but a main component of the Zicam swabs can actually cause you to lose your sense of smell completely. According to the ER I went to they have alot of people come in with reactions from it. Just a heads up!

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« Reply #16 on: Feb 20, 2006, 11:09 pm »
water, water, water and more water.

the repbulic of tea makes a honey ginseng green tea that I swear by when I have a sore throat/fever/cold/cough/what have you.  Drink two or three cups a day with a little spoonful of honey in each.

check it out here:

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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2006, 02:50 pm »
As soon as you feel yourself getting weary, take some Emergen-C (available at GNC, Trader Joe's, and other healthy/hippie places). It won't cure the worst, but it'll help. I was introduced to it in the world of opera, where grown adults treat illness like the boogeyman.

A multivitamin should be a habit - but at least try to have one daily when in production. Rest, healthy eating, and lots of water should be everyday priorities. It's hard to keep up when you're working like crazy on a show, but this is really when you need it most.

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« Reply #18 on: Jun 18, 2006, 10:09 pm »
Sleep during tech week is something that usually makes stage managers cringe. Its is really vital at some point to say "Okay, im done for the night" when youre home pouring over notes, or typing up rehearsal schedules. Get a good nights rest, not wierd scheduled naps during tech days.

If you do put off some form of work, make sure you think ahead of when you will be able to do it again. Its almost as terrible to wake up from a good nights rest to realise you didnt do something that was requested of you. After all, we stage managers would hate to even think of looking unreliable...it just wont work!

Good luck

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« Reply #19 on: Jun 18, 2006, 10:26 pm »
Sleep is essential - I think most stage managers have (at one point in their lives) not slept much during tech week. 8 hours is recommended, although difficult to fit in. Sleeps shorter than 4 hours in duration are useless (Whilst you sleep you go through 3 different states, and it takes 4 hours to go through them all completely, and it is the last where most of the benefits occur, including bodily repair (ie the throat)). It is hard. In any other industry, the hours we do would be unacceptable (7am->11pm is not unusual during tech week when not working in a union house).