What's the best thing(s) to do when you have the common cold?

Answer 1

1. Eat and drink hot clear liquids (like tea and broth) and spicy foods. It keep the mucus clear and liquid.

2. Rub down with Vicks Vapo Rub before going to bed. It works really well. It is powerful stuff.

3. Take a couple of Excedrin every four hours to help your body feel as well as possible.

4. Try to stay in bed and do these things and rest for 24 hours. You will wake up feeling much better the next day.

Answer 2

Rent a few old movies, eat some chicken soup, drink plenty of fluids, enjoy a few crackers with horseradish to help ease the congestion, and suck on zinc lozenges every two hours. The best ones are from GNC and they come in a green box. Your cold will be gone in a couple of days and you will have had a nice rest. If you try to work through your cold it will last a week or more and there will be no help for you.

May I recommend Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy for the movies? Excellent director, and they star Toshiro Mifune, one of Japan's finest actors.

Answer 3

Colds are minor infections of the upper respiratory tract that can be caused by hundreds of different viruses. They are among the most common illnesses in the United States, with some authorities reporting an average of 1 billion cases of the common cold every year.

Find treatment information, as well as great diagrams, below!
http://cold.health.ivillage.com/coldupperrespiratory/commoncold.cfm

Answer 4

This is what I do...
Rest
Drink a lot of Gatorade
Take ibuprofen (because I think it works better than cold medicine for the sore throat pain)
Take a cool shower
Put vicks on
Call my mommy and cry :( (LOL)
And monitor your temperature in case you need to see a doc

Answer 5

rest and take some mild pain killers for ur fever if i have one
drink plenty of fluids