what is the cure for cold, i have tried drinking lots of water and vitamin c but still there is no remedy?

Question

what can you suggest to get rid my cold?/

Answer 1

When I start to get a cold, I drink LOTS of water. I also take 1000mg of vitamin C each hour for 12 hours. After that, I take 1000mg twice a day. I also take one zinc lozenge and a multi-vitamin twice a day, and I rest. I've found I get sick less frequently, less severely, and am functional again within a day or two.

Answer 2

Now that you've got it, try to keep hydrated.....have some good old fashioned chicken soup and get plenty of rest. Make yourself some Ginger/lemon tea with honey (helps congestion).....eat spicy food (peppers are great for a cold) or some horseradish on whatever......citrus......warm compresses are good on your forehead and across your nose too. Gargle with warm salted water......keep a cool mist vaporizer going.....use Vaseline on that red nose and get some Benzedrex if it's stuffy. a lot of the aforementioned OTC products will help the symptoms but I'm not sure that anything exists yet to actually cure the cold.
BTW: one of the best front-line ways to keep from getting a cold is to WASH YOUR HANDS frequently.....be careful about the public surfaces that you touch and try to avoid contact with people who have colds. I hope you feel better soon!!

Answer 3

Several years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published definitive research on this. What they found was that, for a viral upper respiratory tract infection (ie a "cold"), supplementation with zinc, cut the average duration of the cold in half. This is an equivalent treatment effect to antibiotics used to treat bacterial upper respiratory tract infections and is very significant.

There are several brands of cough drops on the market with a hefty amount of zinc added to them for this purpose. They are very effective and cheap as hell.

Note that repeated testing of vitamin C and echinacea (two popular treatments for colds) show zero effect.

Answer 4

you can't get rid of a cold. Once it's there, it's there. But you can do things to help aleviate the symtoms, and get over it faster. The first most important thing is to get LOTS of sleep. I mean like, go to bed at 8:00pm- and sleep in as much as you can. Nap whenever you can. Eat only healthy food- low sodium soups, and fruit and veggies. Drink mostly water, and alot of it. Keep taking your vitamins. Doing all this will help you get over your cold faster.
By the way- taking cold medication only prolongs your cold- it might make you feel better temporarily, but it will only make all of the 'guck' in your body stay in there longer by supressing it. Don't take medication...your body CAN heal itself if you let it.

Answer 5

C doesn't get rid of a cold unless you start taking it at the very first signs of it coming on and the same goes for echenasha. (sp?)

I suggest what my doctor does. Chicken soup. The attributes of it really does help to get rid of a cold. Also a steaming bowl of salted water. Put a towel over your head and inhale the steam...will open up your air passages and the salt dries them out.

Answer 6

All you can do is treat symptoms until your body takes care of it. keep taking the Vitamin C, because that will help your immune system work more quickly, but it still takes time.

In the mean time, drink lots of hot fluids (tea or coffee), and go out for sushi. Wasabe cleans out the sinuses like nothing else on the planet (except maybe tear gas.)

Answer 7

Rest, rest, rest. Drink the fluids, take the vitamins, and eat chicken soup. Did I mention rest? That is the most important.
Wash your hands frequently and take good care of yourself,, and hopefully you can avoid the bad ones next time.
Get well soon!

Answer 8

you can't cure a cold... to help alleviate your symptoms, keep up with the water and vitamin c, drink tea, eat chicken soup, try zinc lozenges, and get lots of rest.... hope you feel better soon

Answer 9

Halls cough drops do WONDERS for me as quickly as I also have a stuffy nostril, plus it enables soothe your throat (verify you get ones with menthol). in basic terms suck on those for a on a similar time as and save blowing your nostril. Drink various water, orange juice, and save on with hen noodle and different common soups for food (crackers in the soup are ok). you will want the cherry flavored Nyquil, as that one tastes extra beneficial; that's purple-colored (the unique is the fairway, which tastes "style-of" like black licorice). there is likewise Dayquil, which will do the comparable element yet won't make you drowsy; in case you get that, get the gelcaps, no longer the liquid stuff (it additionally tastes humorous). if your eyes are watering once you're in the solar or a common easy, wearing shades would help somewhat.

Answer 10

DayQuil, NightQuil, Tylenol PM, getting lots of rest.
It might be more than a cold and you could need antibiotics