Best cure for the common cold

Paracetamol and Vitamin C

A nice hot curry usually helps, those chillis sweat the cold right out of you
Failing that you can't go far wrong with a proper big mug of tea, builders style.
Supermarket own brand cold & flu tablets worked wonders when I had a bad case of the flu last week, with some 1 a day multivitamins.

JohnDuncan:

Paracetamol and Vitamin C

As above, plus get plenty of sleep & don't go outside with wet hair until you're cured.

And if you can get to one of those posh gym's with a steam room - that has various essential oils in the steam - a deep-breathing session always seems to clear the airways.

Rest, eat lots including Mars Bars, vitamin C tablets, You`ve had it a week now so it`s too late but my advice to anyone who thinks a cold may be coming on is to do the above as quickly as you can. I`m sure I`ve managed to avert many colds through the years like this. Or if not completely avert at least knock it down to a one or two day minor cold.

fatboyslimfast:

I've had this bl**dy cold for nearly a week and it's starting to annoy me. So, what are your best remedies? Hot toddys? Honey/Lemon? Single Malt? Whatever you've got, lets hear it!

Lots of fluid, keep warm with plenty of ventilation. Alternatively, buy a bottle of Brandy. It won't cure a cold, but, oh boy, you'll have fun finding out.....

Red hot curry and a case of your favourite tipple.  At the end of the night you'll forget about the cold.  In the morning you will have more pressing issues than the cold!!

Seriously, rest, fluids, vit c, head over a bowl of hot water with Vics in

 

This works for me, every time, but it hinges on you acting on the first signs of a cold coming on:

Beecham's all-in-one liquid. I take a dose of that every four hours for an evening, by the time I wake the next day, cold has gone. I haven't had a cold in three years.

Vit C tabs (500 percent daily requirement strength) whilst you have the symptoms.

Tiny smear of E45 cream rubbed in around the nostril zone to prevent soreness from constantly blowing nose.

3 drops of Olbas oil on a piece of kitchen towel. Fold the tissue into a small rectangle and keep it in your shirt pocket so the fumes help keep you clear. Do the same at night but keep the tissue under a pillow so you wake up clear. It stinks, but who cares if it means you can breath through your nose?

Eat lots of your favourite foods to cheer yourself up. Lay off the alcohol and the curries. (An occasional curry is great normally because the mild toxins in the spices can 'nudge' your immune system, but whilst you are actually ill then it can do without the extra work.) Alcohol slows down recovery time.

2 Neurofens before bed and when you get up.

Lots of water.

chebby:

Vit C tabs (500 percent daily requirement strength) whilst you have the symptoms.

Tiny smear of E45 cream rubbed in around the nostril zone to prevent soreness from constantly blowing nose.

3 drops of Olbas oil on a piece of kitchen towel. Fold the tissue into a small rectangle and keep it in your shirt pocket so the fumes help keep you clear. Do the same at night but keep the tissue under a pillow so you wake up clear. It stinks, but who cares if it means you can breath through your nose?

Eat lots of your favourite foods to cheer yourself up. Lay off the alcohol and the curries. (An occasional curry is great normally because the mild toxins in the spices can 'nudge' your immune system, but whilst you are actually ill then it can do without the extra work.) Alcohol slows down recovery time.

2 Neurofens before bed and when you get up.

Lots of water.

Also, alcohol lowers body temperature. So when, on a cold day, you hear people say, a shot of this drink will warm the cockles, it's total fiddle-faddle.

Listen all, a wise man once said: "Commen cold last 7 days untreated. In intensive care it last a week..."

Common cold is a virus, and you can't really do anything about it (unless you got a prescription, but even these drugs only slightly reduces the symptoms/duration). Relax and take it easy, it will pass.

It has never been proven that vitamin C or any of the other suggestions actually have any effect.

hot whiskeys , i had a cold one saturday a few weeks back , had about 7 hot whiskeys , the sweat was pouring out of me , when i found myself singing along to john and edward on the x factor i reverted back to lemsips , was tip top the next day though .....

plastic penguin:

chebby:

Vit C tabs (500 percent daily requirement strength) whilst you have the symptoms.

Tiny smear of E45 cream rubbed in around the nostril zone to prevent soreness from constantly blowing nose.

3 drops of Olbas oil on a piece of kitchen towel. Fold the tissue into a small rectangle and keep it in your shirt pocket so the fumes help keep you clear. Do the same at night but keep the tissue under a pillow so you wake up clear. It stinks, but who cares if it means you can breath through your nose?

Eat lots of your favourite foods to cheer yourself up. Lay off the alcohol and the curries. (An occasional curry is great normally because the mild toxins in the spices can 'nudge' your immune system, but whilst you are actually ill then it can do without the extra work.) Alcohol slows down recovery time.

2 Neurofens before bed and when you get up.

Lots of water.

Also, alcohol lowers body temperature. So when, on a cold day, you hear people say, a shot of this drink will warm the cockles, it's total fiddle-faddle.

That explains the mystery of the elusive beer/alcohol blanket then. I have always been told, by friends prior to an evening out, that a few more drinks would provide sufficient cover in the form of a beer/alcohol blanket to make going out on a winter's night without a jacket, bearable. I never ever felt any warmer regardless of the beer consumed. Clearly a myth.

It is a very dangerous trick to drink and go outside without too much cloth on!

When you are feeling cold and start to shiver it is a protective mechanism from the body. The warmth are concentrated around the vital organs by reducing the bloodflow in the extremities. What alcohol does is increasing bloodflow in the extremities, making you feel warm. This is very dangerous when it is cold, and that is why you sometimes see drunk people freeze to death without even noticing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EElqrgk4N0

Bottle of malt whisky and a bobble hat.

Before going to bed, put the bobble hat on the left bedpost at the foot of the bed.

Go to bed.

Drink the malt whisky until the bobble hat miraculously moves itself to the right bedpost.....