Common cold remedies

Give her enough cough syrup Phate and she might not wake up for quite some time.

Smash the mucusy pasty.
 
Vicks First Defence is good... usually kills it off if you get it early on.

Ibruprofen for sore throat and Contac to erm... so you can breathe through your nose? :p
 
Most remedies do nothing, they hide or mask symptoms, which isn't a bad thing, who wants to feel bad. Some ibuprofen/paracetomal will help lower a fever and help with aches/pains though that would be more with a flu.

TO beat a cold, flu, you need to help your immune system, a big badass B-complex vitamin, a little vit-c, a zinc tablet, a multivit or some decent food, some omega 3's.

Feed your immune system, it has to produce MORE white cells and targeted virus killing crap than normal, so give your body the building blocks it needs to make those things quicker rather than waste energy and time sythesizing them before it can start building more white cell's.
 
Rohypnol.... Or Chloroform....

Both equally good.... If she is against taking them.... the old "Does this rag smell of Chloroform to you?" usually does the trick.
 
Tonyator said:
Rohypnol.... Or Chloroform....

Both equally good.... If she is against taking them.... the old "Does this rag smell of Chloroform to you?" usually does the trick.
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Won't work if she's bunged up. He'll just have to smack her in the back of the head.
 
you cant sweat out a cold, its an infection thats in your blood, not body water.


let your immune system do the work for you. as above, feed it what it needs.

i would say prevention is the thing to work on, but anyone even the most healthy are open to getting colds.


good physical fitness determines how often you get a sick i think and it certainly goes a big way in how you recover from being sick.
 
Dogoid said:
you cant sweat out a cold, its an infection thats in your blood, not body water.
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It's not a blood infection. It's a upper respiratory tract infection. It just likes to live in that area and reproduce.

Fever is the immune system's response to help neutralise an infection. So "sweating it out" may actually help get things done a bit quicker by keeping the body warmer than normal, and making conditions less ideal for the virus.
 
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Fluids, treat the symptoms with paracetamol and decongestant, sleep. Sleeping in a chair might be handy - lying down usually makes congestion worse.

Hot drinks can help with symptoms too.

Alcohol is antiseptic, so there's an excuse for drinking spirits. Being a bit drunk helps to mask the symptoms.

Oh, and this is GD so...

...mustard!
 
First of all - don't get sucked into the 'improve your immune system' rubbish. There's nothing that can make you improve it (unless it has been depleted by cancer or drugs - which is unlikely) - if there was, we wouldn't need vaccines and if you did improve it you would be overun with Arthritis, inflamatory diseases and all the other problems caused by an overactive immune system.

Eat extra protein - Amino based protein shakes are good and help to get strength back and kick start recovery.

Also, don't get sucked into the other western rubbish like paracetomol or other fever reducing pain killers. They just make the virus stick around longer by reducing your temperature (your bodies own defence mechanisim) - and a virus that would have taken 2 days to clear, will instead last 4 days (and infect twice as many other people) - one of the reasons third world countries have no problems with colds / coughs.

Honey, water and hot steamy bath is all you need. And stay away from dairy products like ice cream (usually something else that everyone eats when sick) and milk / chocolate as they cause extra phlem & make a cough much worse.
 
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gargle diluted TCP. kills all the bacteria in your mouth and then continues to kill it for the foreseeable future. it used to be advertised on the back of the bottles but i assume they stopped it because the after breath is so bad that its genuinely hilarious. worth a laugh
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The probably stopped putting it on the back of the bottle because it is complete rubbish and doesn't work considering that colds are caused by a virus rather than bacteria...

Plenty of fluid and paracetamol are about as much as you can do.
 
Beecham Powders seem to work for me, full of Caffine makes me bounce of walls

Zinc vitamins is one i would recommend, Vitamin C does not kill a cold, a study has been done to prove that and it's "an old wife's tale".

Drink plenty of water and rest, so that your body concerntrates on killing the cold/flu. also get some fresh air. :)
 
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