what is good for a head cold?
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ooooooooooooh.THERAFLU.
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Honey is a good, natural antioxidant, and antibiotic, and herbal teas will help, the herbs as well as the steam moisturizing your sinuses.\nCitrus boosts your immune system, and gives you the C and bioflavanoids your body needs.\n\n Avoid cross-reactive foods such as honeydew, cantaloupe, watermelon, banana and chamomile.\nHere's a website with some common sense ideas to help you get through allergy season.
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Take Vitamin C and Zinc lozenges this can help stop the cold from going through the entire process.  \n\nTake Echinacea and goldenseal extracts. These boost the immune system.  \n\nPut eucalyptus oil in 2 cups of boiling water and breath in the steam, this helps with congestion.  \n\nNative Americans use Hyssop in tea form as an expectorant and to fight viruses.  \n\nGargle: A mix of water and pure tea tree oil this helps sore throats. \n\nDrink chicken broth and potato peeling broth.  \n\nDo not use handkerchiefs, use paper tissues and flush them after use, the cold virus lives for several hours, thus increasing the risk of re-infecting yourself.  \n\nWash your hands frequently, this reduces the chances of re- infecting yourself and others.  \n\nOther homeopathic remedies are: Belladonna; Arsenicum; Aconite; Antimonium tartaricum.  \n\nTake echinacea this herb is antiviral and antibacterial, speeds healing, boost the immune  \nsystem. \n\nHorseradish is another herb that many use in the kitchen but it also has excellent properties to treat sore throat and upper respiratory tract infections, reduces fever, and expels   concentrations of mucus.  \n\nUse kava kava as a gargle for soothing and analgesic pain relief. Helps insomnia cause by coughing and sore throat. \n\nMyrrh is an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, very powerful and excellent for chronic sore throats. It acts also as an expectorant and decongestant. It helps cure gum disease.  \n\nIn Europe is common to see singers use oregano oil  to fight respiratory allergies, laryngitis and sore throat, for it's antifungal and antibacterial properties.  \n\nSage is used to cure sore throat, stuffed nose, gingivitis and coughs, is a powerful antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal. Use as a gargle.  \n\nWild indigo is an antiviral and antibiotic for infections, it stimulates the immune system, and cures chronic sore throats.
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"Cold-Eze" zinc lozenges really helps lessen the severity of a cold if you can start them early when you first begin symptoms.  Once you are sick, just any over the counter cold pill, lots of rest and plenty fluids.  Hope you feel better!
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Herb supplements such as Echinachea and Goldenseal work very well.  I'm not a health freak, but my friend's mom gave them to me and my cold cleared up really fast and it's good for preventing them too.\nAvailable at healthfood stores as well as drug stores.
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take lots of vitamin c to boost your immune system, and zinc will help your cold go away a little faster. coldeeze drops work very well, and ive heard that Zicam swabs work great too but i havent tried them.\nother than that, just drink lots of fluids, get lots of rest, and take some cold medicine to relieve your symptoms. \nhope you feel better soon!
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Room temperature, no question. Ginger ale at room temperature helps settle the stomach. The first thing to do when you feel a nausea type cold is get your fever down. With fans, ice and as soon as possible tylenol, not aspirin
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Drown your cold with orange juice...vitamin C is good but people don't know how much to take....you have to take 1000 mg each hour until you get diarreha for the pills to help. But the juice keeps you hydrated and it helps your throat. Also..Lemon Juice....put a tablespoon in your mouth and hold it...sore throat germs cannot live in lemon juice.\nRest as much as you can...your lungs and sinuses cannot heal if you are taxing other parts of your body.
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Airborne.It is great!You can get it at almost any store.I take it as soon as I feel a cold coming on ,and it really helps to stop or shorten the symptoms.That and chicken soup,hot tea with honey,and O.J.(NOT Simpson*LOL*)
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i don't think the wet hair had anything to do with you getting a cold.\nright now is the best time to start taking echinachia, vitamin c and\nzinc, because you're just at the beginning of getting sick. if you start now taking the above listed, about 3 times a day, you could avoid getting sick all together!
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Get a shot of whisky(any kind), put about 2 tablespoons of honey in it, about a teaspoon or two of lemon juice, mix it up and heat in microwave, about 15 seconds to warm then drink.  This mixture is good also if you have the flu or a  cold.
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Eating healthy and exercising is a great start and its good you have that already. Some people just have weak immune systems and find it hard to fight off colds. Try taking Echinacea at the start of the seasons, it will build your immune system but only take it for ten days straight, if you take it for too long it can start to weaken the immune system as your body gets used to it. There are a lot of natural remedies if you want further info, speak to your health professional :)\n\n\n I find having a bit of garlic at the start of winter keeps me cold free, it helps sinus and purifies your blood
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Just eat well, drink plenty of fluids, and get bed rest as much as you can.  I just got over a cold, I took Nyquil at night and Dayquil in the mornings, it helped me.  Vitiman C is great at preventing a cold.
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Chicken soup is one of the best home remedies, it helps hydrate you and helps make your nose run thus getting rid of some congestion.\nOtherwise you can eat and drink anything you want just make sure you get extra fluids so you are really well hydrated.  This helps to thin out the congestion so you can get it out of your sinuses/nose and if it is in your chest it lets you cough it up and get rid of it as well.\nYou don't, repeat DON'T need an antibiotic for a cold so please don't go to your DR and yell and scream until he gives you one. Save them for when you really neet them and they'll work better.
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Don't get one!  No, really.  There is no cure for the common cold, just various means of alleviating the symptoms until it has run its course.  Prevention is the best medicine, and a healthy diet and excersise should help you have a strong immune system.  I understand echinacae is helpful combating colds.
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The best answer is, of course, see a doctor. Do you smoke? If so, cutting back or quitting might help. If not, try the steam approach. Get a large bowl of hot, hot water and sit directly over it with a towel on your head. You could also try taking vitamins(if you're not already), starting with a multivitamin, vitamin C, echinacea and goldenseal, and vitamin E. Be sure to follow the directions about how much to take of all of these though.These just help boost your immune system and fight off possible infection. BUT, most importantly, see your doctor. It could be something more serious than a cold or flu.
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This is the age old question, how to get rid of the common cold? I still don't think there is a 'for sure' answer for this but, I'd start with a cold pack, such as, NyQuil or Sudephed Cold etc..  You also need to boost your immune system.   Drink lots of water, of course, and take about 1000 mg of vitamin C with echinacea every four hours.  Try gargling with                \nwarm salt water every hour for your throat.  Good luck with that, and God bless.