What can I do for my cold? Aside from medications... Natural remedies?!


Question: What can I do for my cold.? Aside from medications... Natural remedies.?
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Rest! Sleep as much as you can, consume LOTS of fluids, (water, juice, hot tea with honey and lemon- avoid alcohol and caffeine) take vitamin C, echinacea and Oscillococcinum.
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Do not overdo the antioxidants, this can have a negative effect on immune response to infection - the body generates oxidative free radicals as a part of its way of responding to infection. Antioxiants like Vit C take up free radicals - you don't want to blunten the immune response.

Therapeutic vit C has not been demonstrated to reduce cold symptoms or longevity, in fact one recent study has shown a slower recovery period in children given large doses of Vit C.
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To help clear your sinuses, put some drops of peppermint or eucalyptus oil in a large bowl of hot water then drape a towel over your head nad breathe in the vapors. For the scratchy throat and cough, get some zinc lozenges and suck on those (don't chew them like candy). They come in several flavors and the zinc coats the throat. You should be better in 2 weeks. OR you can do nothing and you should be better in 2 weeks but at least you will be a little more comfortable if you try those things. ;-)Health Question & Answer

Viral infections can be abolished best by drinking lots of fluids including tea, orange juice, cranberry juice, water etc. I prefer to keep exercising through a cold because it helps stir up my lymphatic system and helps to produce more red blood cells etc. Food is not as important as fluids and exercise in my opinion when dealing with a cold.Health Question & Answer

Flood your system with Vit.C. taking 2000 mg at a time, up to 3 times a day.

Include garlic in your daily diet all year long and it will help your immune system.

The way you worded your question, I take it you don't want natural remedies either so I have nothing else to offer you even though what I did share was natural.

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