Remedy against garlic aftermath

I had a very garlic-laden dish yesterday (if I had known I would have had something else) and now my co-worker is in agony due to my garlic effluvium. I have drunk milk, showered, washed my hair, had a wild-cherry lozenge and one of her ginger candies. Is there anything else I can do besides going home?

Brush your teeth

@sarabyrd
"Is there anything else I can do besides going home?"
NO!

Run naked around the office ...

Chew on parsley

Done that too, of course.
edit: damn it, don't post so fast! I have brushed my teeth, nowt else of the suggestions!

Not really. Allicin is pretty powerful stuff. You can get the garlic smell off your hands with stainless steel (no one knows hy it works) but once ingested, it's going to take a day or two for it to leave your body. Chewing parsley might help your breath a bit (and mask the smell better than mints), but you're sweating the stuff out, too. Try Grinner's suggestion; it couldn't hurt.

I restrict my garlic-heavy meals to Friday nights... unless a cow-orker pisses me off.

woof.

& eat more garlic, everything needs more garlic...

A quick run of about 30 min. should do the trick. You will have sweated it out. All things green should also help, for instance eating a Granny Smith apple. What is also supposed to help is drinking half a glass of lukewarm milk within half an hour after having eaten garlic. But I guess that's a bit too late now. Next time I guess.

Feed your colleagues Tsaisaiki

Your coworker is a vampire and is only attempting to induce you to lower your defences. Keep a stake and a waterpistol of holy water at the ready.

Exactly how close do you work with this colleague for them to be smelling your bodily vapors?

She is not amused, but I am. C'mon everyone, one big whine for Ingrid ...
The parsley seems to help, at least it makes me nauseous. All good remedies are said to do that.
@ showem: our desks are face to face, about 2 m

top post Yeti..

@Showem
offices can get real tight you know.. guy in front of me, we have our monitors back to back, I kicked him the other day while streching!.. ooppss

light some incense maybe? spray some room freshener?

Pull your co-workers left arm behind her back then lock it into place with your right arm, grabbing the back of her head with your right hand. Then force feed her a clove of minced raw garlic.
Problem solved.

Tell your colleague to go home.

If the breath is the main problem try cheweing fennel seeds..although i don't know where you'd get them in the office but you did find some parsley i guess...

I have burned some orange peel, it helped a little bit. But I am getting sick and tired of her constant "phewww!" every time I leave or enter the room. After today, I don't want to hear anything about this from her again ...

Tell her that you may stink of garlic but she is annoying. However tomorrow you will no longer reek of garlic but she will still be annoying. It might give you a afternoon of quiet after the obligatory "I've never been so insulted, harrupmh" response.

wow, that's pretty rude! People smell like BO in my office and I just leave it be. If it bugs her she should be the one lighting incense.

I say you come into work smelling like garlic more often. Make a game out of it.

Glad you don't have an appointment with me today! I hate Garlic breath, we confirm appointments a day in advance, but they all come in, oh, I forgot I had an appointment today!
BO- that is another one that gets me... they are always the people that complain about the window open!

BO and garlic are fine. Its perfume that really gets me pissed off. Back home where females do the same line of work as me I had to avoid showering and washing my clothes just to drown out the perfume stench from the female co-workers with some nice healthy male pheremones. Here where theres only males in the office its not so much of an issue. Except for this one guy who comes in sometimes, he reeks worse than many chicks!

Hullo? Its just a one-day thingy, right? What is she getting so mad about? Just out of curiosity, is she German?

she sounds like a pain in the arse...eat more garlic in future just to annoy her.
that's what I'd do.

Have her over sometime and serve a whole roasted head of elephant garlic -- you know the kind in the terracotta thingie that bakes for an hour and then you just squeeze the roasted mush out of the peels onto bread ooooooh that's good but I smelled terrible for three days. I could even smell it on myself, that's how intense it was.

Saunaing is less strenuous than jogging, but sweating it out might really work. Anyone have any experience or is it just a theory?

i'll see if i can find the recipe i used to have for "40 clove curry", i kid you not. mind you, it's fairly self evident what the main ingredient is. you could force a re-org with that stuff!

Eat some fish. I hear tuna is good for getting rid of garlic breath.

Matter of fact, she is a fundamentally nice German girl but extremely sensitive. I know if I harped on about anything she did for a whole day she'd be telling me to shut the hell up. I'm just shrugging my shoulders and waiting for the day to end. I told her first thing in the morning that I hadn't known the food was chock full of garlic and offered to work in a different room today. At noon I bought an apple-scented candle as a peace offering and things are very relaxed at the moment.

Man theres some princesses around. This precious little bavarian teen was on the train today, making a big deal about some faint odour somewhere (probably me, no idea). She was having her scarf over her face, and breathing in all the air all dramatic like every time the doors opened. Theres only one thing to do in those situations, let rip and let her enjoy my fermented last nights dinner as much as I did.

I have just told her she gets to talk about this until midnight tonight and then never again. We're not bitching at each other, perfectly normal conversational tone. I think I'll give her a jar of aiola for Xmas instead of the caipi set.

I pretty much took that as a given.

Tell her you have joined a new health movement and start extolling the many benefits of garlic for your health. This new club advises:
consumption of raw garlic at every meal
consumption of raw onions with every meal
consumption of almost gone-off fish at lunch. however the fish must be bought from the shop and stored in an office desk until ready for eating
consumption of several pints of guiness every night...trust me there's nothing quite as bad as a guinness-garlic combo fart

A few weeks of this treatment and she won't cause you anymore problems as she will have quit her job !

She's been here for half an hour and hasn't mentioned it, so I think we can close the topic. Thank you all for the enlightening suggestions, and I can't wait for my next spaghetti bolognese with home-made garlic bread.

Today I am treating my co-workers to a delightful combination of nasty old socks, worn for 2 days in a row now, and a touch of stale beer flavored BO boldly delivered from the very t-shirt that I wore yesterday and slept in last night. Finishing touches are provided by the ever-present, but usually more subtle, "kza-crotch" a delicate fragrance of my own creation, not to be enjoyed elsewhere.

okay that's absolutely disgusting

Liquid Chlorophyll (it's made from Alfalfa) I swear it works. Same concept as parsely, but way stronger as an internal deodorant. Not sure though if you can find it here- try asking for liquid chlorophyllin at the Apoteke. I imported mine with me and haven't had to look for it yet here, but I would imagine it is available here.