What do you do when you have a cold?
 

Got a really bad one atm and was wondering what you guys do for it

Sleep.

Drink tea (any kind, green tea, lemon/honey/ginger tea, other flavours etc). Also I find vicks and inhalers really help too.

Also try to go for a walk, you will feel worse if you stay in bed all day long.

Did that yesterday and I feel worse today for it

Green tea relieves it whilst you're drinking it. Avoid alcohol as every night you drink with a cold you basically add another day onto the cold. Sleep and feel sorry for yourself.

Sweat it out of you.

That’s what I’m doing today

Tonight’s plans are ****ed then, but it’s worth a shot (no pun intended)

Nothing just get on with work. Blow my nose more

Oh it usually helps me :worry:

Wallow, so the usual

Fruit, bio yoghurt, vitamin c, lemsip, face steamer, water on a loop until its gone

Deal with it, buy hankies, lemsips throat sweets and get on wit it really

Me atm

Try and sleep as much as possible, have a bath, keep taking fluids

moan and whine a lot :fan:


but that doesn't help, so i take more vitamins, and lots of water :hee:

vitamins?

why

vitamins are good for you, vitamin c is what i swallow every day, that yellow pill with lemon flavor

and also a red pill vitamin A


and in beans is lots of soy which contains vitamin B


:flutter:

Did a qualified doctor prescribe these for some sort of deficiency?

no not a qualified doctor, just me knowing these things

well i am afraid you are wasting your money and being fed lies by marketing departments

go do some proper research

Siding with Nicky, ever since I was hospitalised and given an emergency blood transfusion back in April, I’ve had a Berroca with my breakfast every morning

i bought some multivitamin tablets once but they just gave me rly bad joint pain in my knees :shrug:

and?

I get depressed :)

OD on various forms of over the counter ****

Nothing really ,a cold just goes in it's own time,just sleep and drink plenty.

A berroca is a form of Vitamin tablet which dissolves in water to create a sort of vitamin infused fizzy orange

I've had an awful cold as well the last few days :( Try and eat plenty of healthy food with lots of vitamins, even if you don't have much of an appetite. Get as much sleep/rest as possible. Drink loads of water. And try not to over exert yourself - mentally as well as physically, stress will make it worse.

just get on with it really, unless it's the flu which then obviously you are bed ridden. I've had my fair share of chest infections/cold and pneumonia this year and now I've just caught another cold thats worryingly gone to my chest again, off I go to the doctors in the morning. My advice would be don't smoke because some colds can turn into chest infections and when the lungs are weakened by smoking it's not good. I've ended up with COPD and I quit smoking 10 years ago :sad: Oh and take Vitamin C

Flu medicine
Honey & lemon is really good
And lemsip

Feel sorry for myself

Why?

All these people with their fancy fandangle gizmos.

Just bloody carry on and let it pass.

You need some vitamins honey

I don't need a bloody face steamer I know that. :fist:

OD on olbas oil and strepsils

Old wives tale: "Wash your hair".

I guess it's the same principal as putting your face over a steaming hot bowl but yeah, always eases it for me.

I thought that was about catching a cold. Washing your hair and not drying it. :laugh:

1. Eat alot of warm meals.

2. Wrap yourself up in thick layers of clothing.

3. As disgusting as it sounds just let it out instead of trying to hold the sneeze in.

4. If you've got a Sore Throat with your cold then I'd recommend eating Ice Cream as it can sooth your throat and stop it feeling so painful.

I hope this helps.

Green tea with real honey lemon and ginger in is a god send. And a good home made chicken and ginger soup with heaps of garlic and vitamin c