What do you do for a cold?

bitch and moan about it, seems to work as good as anything else

 

When I used to be smart, I was taking a zinc supplement along with my daily multivitamin and extra vitamin C. Now that I'm older and denser, I just start taking Zicam when I feel a cold coming on. Seems to help most of the time. When it doesn't, there's Nyquil.

 

I take a multivitamin with zinc, and I try to eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. Also, tons of water, and washing my hands frequently. Prevention-wise, I think that helps more than anything.

When someone gets sniffly and sneezy around me, I break out the Airborne and the Lysol.

If it actually catches up with me, I can get over the worst of it by taking some Nyquil and sleeping it off. I also tend to over-indulge in orange juice and chocolate, but that's more of a comfort thing

 

Living in the tropics I find that I don't get that many colds anymore. I think I have had two or three in all the time I have lived here (seven years). When I used to get them, I would just make sure I stayed hydrated and carried a whack of tissues. I would take decongestants when needed and gargle with salt for the times my throat was sore.

 

I always felt that nothing really works too great, so sleep is best for me.
Zinc gluconate, such as coldeeze lozenges are suppose to work by destroying the cold virus in the throat so it doesn't become a full blown cold. Taste horrible and upsets the stomach.
Also Zinc does NOT help if you have the flu.
Sleep and fluids are the best medicine along with chicken noodle soup.

 

Zinc occupies the receptors that rhino-virus latch onto, helping prevent or shorten colds (or, so I'm told). Flu is a whole other kettle.

 

Jack Daniel's and honey.

 

Vitamins, copious fluids, lots of sleep, DayQuil/NyQuil (as appropriate), and frequent very hot showers.

 

Lots of camomile tea, much sleep/resting and soft tissues for the nose.

Never needed more than that.

 

Sleep
Vitamin C
Something spicy (Wasabi or ginger works good!)

I also like to go for a run to clear out my lungs.

 

All the water I can take. When I over-water, balance out with some electrolyte-enhanced water... then repeat.

If I have to be up and functional, I'll Dayquil myself until I'm done needing to be functional.

 

absolutely nothing. i just wait till its taken its course i let my body fight it. i just get along doing what i usually do.

/shrug

 

Same. I've never met a cold medication that didn't make me feel worse than the cold itself. Lot's of Kleenex (generic for me) and I'll try not to share; but it will just run it's course.

 

I usually just let it run its course, sleeping as much as possible. However, this year, I was required to be more functional and not a sniffly mess, so I took some decongestants. I actually really like AlkaSeltzer for colds now.. most other OTC drugs on the market have too many active ingredients, and 1 or more of them messes with my heart rate or makes me feel spacey. The AlkaSeltzer takes care of the worst symptoms and doesn't make me a complete space cadet.. just a partial one.

I also tend to drink a lot of warm herbal teas (chamomile, lemon and honey) as they go down more easily than cold water. My trip to the store when I'm starting to get sick has a list of AlkaSeltzer, gatorade/powerade, chamomile teabags, and Ensure for those times I either don't feel like eating (often when I'm sick) or my throat hurts too much to swallow something non-liquid.

I probably need to get back on the zinc thing again, but zinc is the one supplement I used to take a few times a week that irritated my stomach too much. I vomited a handful of times before I finally gave up on it.

 

Appropriately enough, this was on my FB newsfeed this morning:

 

Lots of Nyquil, lots of sleep, lots of Vernors for the stomach, lots of hot tea.