"home" cold remedies needed.....

[Simon]

35 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

You tea bag the boss ?

 

That's what she gets for using up all her personal days cutting the grass.

[Beck Water]

Soup with lots of garlic.   Try roasted garlic soup (about 3 entire heads of garlic per quart of soup, maybe 4, that's what we're talking about) but chicken noodle would do if it has lots of garlic

 

Lemon juice, honey, and whiskey for a sore throat.

 

Take hot showers.  Heat rosemary and sliced lemon in a pot and breathe in the steam.  Guafenisin to loosen up mucus.

Delsym extended cough syrup to sleep, if you have a cough; sudafed (the original kind the stores keep locked up) to help keep your sinuses clear

 

 

[Simon]

13 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

Take hot showers.

 

Running the shower at its highest temp with the door closed for about 5-10 minutes before you get in creates a nice steam bath effect.

[Mike in Horseheads]

6 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

Running the shower at its highest temp with the door closed for about 5-10 minutes before you get in creates a nice steam bath effect.

Then getting in at it's highest temp will make you forget the cold quick

[Simon]

7 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

Then getting in at it's highest temp will make you forget the cold quick

 

I would hope I didn't have to spell out the step of turning the heat down before you got in.

But then again, it is Beck Water we're dealing with... 🫢

[BADOLBILZ]

On 1/7/2025 at 10:28 AM, Sweats said:

The one main issue i have is that when i get a cold, i just have to let the sickness run its course through "home" remedies.

 

I have major reactions to cold medications and in fact, my son has the exact same thing.......any pharmacy cold medications leaves us running up the walls and super hyper for weeks. It doesn't matter what it is, it just kicks the **** out of us because we won't sleep for days and that doesn't help when you're sick.

 

UGH

 

 

As @davefan66 said,  I would recommend zicam.   It's zinc.   It shortens the duration of the cold.  I use the nose swabs.   That's something I think everyone should just have on hand all the time.   If you are around people with a cold or even start feeling symptoms just start using it.   I have avoided many a cold that my wife and/or kids have brought home using that stuff and greatly shortened the colds I have gotten before it gets in the lungs and turns into a nagging cough etc.. 

[davefan66]

5 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

As @davefan66 said,  I would recommend zicam.   It's zinc.   It shortens the duration of the cold.  I use the nose swabs.   That's something I think everyone should just have on hand all the time.   If you are around people with a cold or even start feeling symptoms just start using it.   I have avoided many a cold that my wife and/or kids have brought home using that stuff and greatly shortened the colds I have gotten before it gets in the lungs and turns into a nagging cough etc.. 

 

Absolutely, works great. Shortens cold symptoms tremendously.