Does Ginger Ale help cure the common cold?
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No, but if you stir in a little JD with that you won't care so much that your nose is running.   I hope you feel better.
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Some evidence has suggested that zinc might trim a day or two off of the usual 7-10 day course.  But essentially there is nothing you can do except treat the symptoms.  Hydration, decongestants, and analgesics can be helpful for symptoms.  Painful or excessive cough can be treated with anti-tussives, but if possible avoid using these, since cough is an effective way of cleaning your lungs and airways.  \n\nHelp prevent getting a cold when people around you are sick by washing your hands frequently, and never touching your face.  You may want to frequently clean off keyboards and other surfaces that other people use.\n\nIf you have a cold, be kind and wash your hands frequently,  do not cough or sneeze into the air or into your hands, and let people know that you have a cold so that they can take precautions.  If you have something worse than a common cold, avoid people alltogether and see a physician.\n\nFinally if you do catch someone's common cold--and you probably will--take comfort that you will never get THAT particular cold again, since you are building an immunity to it.  However, there will always be plenty of new strains coming along every year that you can catch.
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if the cold symptoms just started, use cold-eeze. it helps! if it's been haning on for a while, the old remedies are best. (lots of rest, liquids, and vitamins!!!) Unfortunately, a real cold just needs to run it's course.
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Home remedies of common cold and minor respiratory infections, should include herbal treatment and some other tips, like open the windows frequently to avoid a big concentration of microbes(it is essential) in the room, put plasters of aloe in the front of the face and wrists to lower the temperature ecc.\nCheck out also this link about fever. I wrote that based on the questions asked by my clients. \nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoiJ6WwIyV83Jl9lSdKl6oXsy6IX?qid=1006031504946\nIf the person has been characterized as high-risk, should be advised to get the influenza vaccine. \n\nRegarding the herbal treatment let me be more specific than Batman(he was good but very generic), just because this is the field of my specialization(I am a health care provider). \n1.If you have fever, the 1st thing that you have to do, is open your mouth and check your tonsils: if you distinguish any white spots(this is puss) then you have to go to the doctor to get prescribed an antibiotic.  Don’t trust any home remedies at this case. In any case, you can have some gargles. Prepare a solution of chamomile(1 glass) and 1 spoonful of salt (4-5 times daily).\n2.If not, just an antipyretic drug is enough. If you have high fever, you can use a combination of aspirin + paracetamol (next time that you will visit your doctor check it out with him).\nUsually, the professional associations are posting guidelines for this purpose.\nCheck them out, too, visiting their site.\n3.You are talking about cough. There is a net distinction between cough relievers, in expectorants and antitussives. The mechanism of action of the relevant medicines in order to affront each symptom, is different. Be sure that you did the correct diagnosis, in order to take the correct medicine. Maybe the cough is of allergic provenience or it is a side effect associated   with any medicines that you already take? For example, it might be associated with use of ACE inhibitors(it is a medicine used to lower certain types of  blood pressure). Take care on what you will use, preferably ask your pharmacist. Commonly used expectorants in sirops are thymus extract, fennel, honey, vitamin C.\n4.Liquorice: according to the bibliography, it is used the whole plant. Males, take care: it has an estrogen-like action, so don’t exaggerate in the use of this plant! I know that it is very tasty.\n5.Echinacea: the use is not just empirical; it is used not just in the prevention but also in the acute phase: there are some double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in patients with acute respiratory infections.\n6.Oligoelements, like Zn , for topical use can inhibit the rhinovirus activity.To be found in the pharmacy. Another solution could be sodium chloride 0.9%, for topical use. There are also some preparations on the base of distilled sea water, in the commerce.\n7.Garlic, probiotics and ginseng are used during the phase of prevention.\n  \nI will not specify any sites, there are a lot, for me every official site is O.K., included the site proposed, that is excellent and I will explore,too. \nOr maybe an example is always useful. This is the USDA site\nhttp://search.usda.gov/search?q=cache:zG9-qRuMqAwJ:http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/ds_altmed.html+alternative+medicine&num=10&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=usda&oe=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=OC\nFrom my professional experience, I would like to recommend you to take care when you practice self-theraty. Herbal medicine is very popular today but sometimes there are some “secrets” hidden behind it, other than those shown in the 2nd link and they have to do with the geographical place where the plant is cultivated (soil, water for irrigation, weather), the time of harvesting of the plant, the purity of the essential oil, the GMP’s(good manufacturing practices) and sometimes also with the profit of the practitioner.\n\nI will finish this long discourse, saying what we often listen in our professional conferences. Whatever is car
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try boiling ginger root chunks into boiling water, let it cool add a little honey and lemon juice then drink it, it allways works for me.
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Rest and plenty of fluids.  There is no cure for the common cold, yet, despite the many claims...\n\nChicken soup not so hot?\nIf people believed all the old wives' tales about catching and preventing colds and flu, they would stock their cupboards with chicken soup all winter and never step out into the cold. But the myths often have no place in scientific reality, so if you wonder whether you should starve a cold and feed a fever (or if you've got it the wrong way around), try this quiz (originally written by the American Lung Association).\n\nMyth: Spending time outside in cold weather can cause a cold or flu.\n\nFact: Exposure to cold weather does not bring on a cold or flu. It can, however, cause pneumonia, which can come about when someone already has the flu. This is the most serious complication of the flu and is more likely to occur in the elderly and people whose immune systems have been weakened by other medical conditions.\n\nMyth: It is possible to catch the flu from a flu shot.\n\nFact: The flu vaccine is made from an inactive virus, so it is impossible to get the flu from it. Some people may be sore where the vaccine is injected and may feel unwell for a couple of days with fever and muscle aches. Anyone who is acutely ill with fever or is allergic to egg or another component of the vaccine should not get the flu shot.\n\nMyth: An upset stomach is a symptom of the flu.\n\nFact: Stomach distress is rarely a symptom of the flu. Other viruses, bacteria and food poisoning are more common causes of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.\n\nMyth: Large doses of vitamin C can prevent colds and cure them quickly.\n\nFact: This is not proven, although consuming the daily requirement of vitamin C is good for overall health.\n\nMyth: Herbal treatments such as echinacea and zinc will cure a cold quickly.\n\nFact: To date, there is no conclusive scientific evidence that either can cure or prevent a cold. The best way to avoid a cold is to avoid close contact with others who have it, wash hands frequently and avoid eye and nose rubbing.\n\nMyth: A bowl of chicken soup and hot toddies can help cure a cold.\n\nFact: Chicken soup has no power to cure a cold. However, hot liquids can soothe a scratchy throat or a cough. Hot toddies should also be avoided during a cold. Alcoholic beverages can increase the body's chance of dehydration, and therefore make symptoms worse.\n\nMyth: It is best to starve a cold and feed a fever.\n\nFact: Neither of these is a good remedy. When fighting a cold or fever, the body needs
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Hold your breath while taking seven sips of water - a little ginger can also help (ginger root or ginger ale)
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The common cold is a viral infection. It can be manifested in different ways by different people. The manifestations during a common cold as well as the flu depend on your body's immune system response. The common cold is usually less severe than a strain of the flu virus. The common cold usually starts as some type of respiratory viral infection and can commonly cause host susceptibility to bacterial organisms. The flu virus acts more aggressively and has some effects on the nervous system. These effects cause the severe headaches, body aches, lack of body temperature control, and muscle aches that accompany this disease. At this time, there are no direct treatments for either of these viral diseases. The goal of treatment for both is to manage the symptomatology of the disease. For example, Tylenol/Ibuprofen for fever, etc.
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Ginger is generally accepted as being good for an upset stomach - hence the old home remedy to drink ginger ale when you're belly's aching.
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ginger helps u when ur sick.\ntry powerbars or cliff bars or powergell or accel gell
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I don't know but ginger is supposed to help nausea. Like ginger tea or ginger snaps.
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There is only one thing that has been shown to be effective in shortening the length of a cold.  This includes various anti-viral therapies your doctor might try to push on you.  Read the detail sheet that comes with the med, it basically says the med doesn't do squat....lol.\n\nAnyway, zinc supplementation is the only treatment ever found that reduces the length of a cold, once you have it.  Supplementation with immune boosting vitamins etc. like vitamin C, help....if you take them regularly BEFORE you get sick but do nothing after you get sick.  In contrast, research published in the New England Journal of Medicine a few years ago, basically proved that taking zinc after you get a cold, basically cuts the duration of the cold in half, on average.\n\nAnother supplement that might work is something called beta 1,3/1,6-glucan.  This is a highly purified extract from yeast cell walls.  It is a powerful, general immune system stimulant.  It has shown to be dramatically effective in animal studies against dangerous diseases like anthrax.  No studies with the common cold that I am aware of, but I'm willing to bet it's effective because of its mechanism of action.
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ZINC!  Zinc lozenges diminish the effects of a cold, and if you take them at your first symptoms, you can fight back the cold altogether.  I find that that lots of OJ or vitamin C supplements and a good sauna help also.
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Well, there appears to be some controvery about this.  While some people swear by the stuff, others say that it has no real effect on overcoming a cold.  \nHere are some links, one of which is from a National Institute of Health study.  I hope these help you decide whether to head to the health store or not.
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The fever yes\nBut a beer will fix that(~~)
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Sorry to say but you cannot cure a cold.  It is a virus and there are almost no viruses that can be killed by medication.  Bacteria can be killed, but not a virus.  So, just make the symptoms as bearable as possible and wait.  It will be over in a few days.
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Since it is taking so long for you to get sick, that is the hallmark of a viral infection (bacterial infections make you sick within hours, not days).  A few years ago, some research published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that zinc supplementation cuts the average length of such infections in half.  This is a similar treatment effect to antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections (antibiotics do nothing for viral infections).  You can get zinc in the form of pleasant tasting honey lemon cough drops at almost any grocery store.  Suck on a bunch of these to get the effect.  It's the only thing I know of, shown to do anything for colds.  However, it does alot and is easily and cheaply obtainable.  Vitamin C, btw, has been shown to do nothing.