Itchy Runny nose and a foggy head but I have a paper to write. Pls help.
Sorry for saying “y’all”
EDIT: You people are saints, thank you for all the advice 
Dayquil
Tylenol for headache and fever, pedialyte or it’s knockoffs for electrolytes, spicy soups to help drain the runny nose for a while as well any med with Guaifenesin can help thin out heavy mucus. Lemon ginger honey tea always helped and as people have said you can add some whiskey to make it a hot toddy. Antihistamines can also help in some cases with headaches (clariten or generics of the same name, avoid benadryl unless you want to knock yourself out also some decongestants are a combo of gaufensien and antihistamines).
Eat a banana (potassium) and drink as much water as you can. Lay on a towel and pile on the blankets. Sweat it out.
My partner swears by gargling saltwater for anything upper respiratory-related.
Otherwise, plan on eating a lot of soup for a few days. If you have a really bad cough, mixing booze and honey might work. (My grandpa swore by Portuguese brandy and honey. He kept a bottle hidden away that I am pretty sure would have worked as a Molotov cocktail as-is.) If you can get NyQuil and just sleep it off for 14 hours at a time, that’s probably your best bet. It’s basically a time travel potion.
No booze! Your body needs to be extra-hydrated when you have a cold and booze dehydrates you. No booze for sick people unless they’re dying and its their final request. Not strictly related to the topic but there was this thing about giving cold people booze to “warm them up”, terrible advice do not do it. Booze is literally poison.
But soups are amazing because they’re warm, hydrate and are easy to digest, you need some proteins though. Chickpea soup is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYqct6ttONs
Or any clear veg stock soup with potatoes and whatever proteins you have just throw it in you cant go wrong tbh.
booze dehydrates you
The effect is actually very low - like 25-100 ml after for 30 grams of alcohol
As long as you’re not living on hot toddies and maintaining a high level of water intake you’ll be fine
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Saline spray or a nedi pot.
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Some edutainment-acquired knowledge: Cold lasts about a week on average, if you take vitamin C and zinc that time supposedly is cut short by about half a day.
It’s not readily available but a dropper of oil of oregano can wallop (for me) most ailments north of the chest.
Drinking tea til my piss is tea
Paracetamol and Ibuprofen
Sudafed (with pseudoephedrine) from the chemist for the congestion
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/71886/duro-tuss-chesty-cough-forte-60-tablets for making the mucus easier to get rid of
If you’re coughing, get some Rikodeine from the pharmacy (schedule 3 so you have to ask for it) - it has 200 mg of dihydrocodeine per bottle (and probably won’t be available over the counter for much longer)
try common warm
Lemon, ginger + honey tea (or something with a mixture with like tumeric and stuff), some mint teas, and paracetamol/ibuprofen preferably with some kind of decongestant. Bonus points if you make a honey lemon honey tea with some liquor mixed in.
Mmmm that sounds nice…
Liquor though?!? Wouldn’t that make my body more vulnerable to sickness?
Eh just a small amount will actually help sinuses (hot steam from the tea) and it’s antibacterial so it clears your throat for a bit
You can do both of those without alcohol and if you’re sick should! No alcohol for sickos
Obviously don’t drink a lot, but I’ve never had a problem. I think the english call it a toddy or some silly name? It seems everywhere has a variation of it.
Neat, thanks for the recipe
Tullamore Dew, according to my late grandmother
Benadryl at night helps if your allergies are bad enough
No home remedy but lemsip cold and flu tablets generally have worked pretty well for me in the past. For a light cold it largely deletes the symptoms completely. Combine with any variety of tea and honey and you should be able to get some functionality back
