How do you beat a rotten summer cold????

[studio1087]

How?

Tons of fluids?

Hot showers?

Sleep more?

Herbal Tea?

I have mother of all summer colds. I feel like a little kid with the runny nose & throat and congested head and aches and it's beautiful outside! I sound funny when I talk and I look like someone rolled me down a hill.

On the rare occasion that I catch a cold this badly it's below zero outside and windy and terrible.

Just seems wrong to be all clogged up and sore when it's sunny and warm.

Massive amounts of carbonated water seem to help.

What do you do when get a rotten cold?

[Boubou]

You need a hat and your favorite bottle of booze.
Recline in a comfortable position, remove your shoes, put hat on one foot, start drinking, when you see two hats you feel no pain

[uriah1]

-If you already got it, it is too late for zinc...
so, water and pseudefeds..zyrteks if runny

[scrapyardblue]

Echinacea for me

[Flaneur]

You know what they say............

recovery takes a week with medication and seven days without.

You have my sympathies. Drink lots of water and take the occasional aspirin.

[mudshark]

just hang in there until the fall and then you'll have a rotten autumn cold

[dan1952]

Zyrtec, vitamin C, lots of water, get some sleep.

[JoeNeri]

I came down with a killer cold last week, just before a Friday night, 4-set, 9 pm to 1 am, bar gig. Loaded up on Day-Quil and played the gig with everything I had. The cold didn't stand a chance in that bar, with the music loud, the beer cold and the girls foxy, and a ton of cigarette smoke wafting its way inside from the smokers' patio.

I felt just fine the next morning.

Of course, there's probably a hundred or so folks here with colds that they caught from me.

[Five Fingers]

You need a hat and your favorite bottle of booze.
Recline in a comfortable position, remove your shoes, put hat on one foot, start drinking, when you see two hats you feel no pain

Yep, that's the one...the panacea for almost all ills!

[Sherpa]

Mojitos - I fresh lime. Mortar and pestle plenty of fresh spearmint leaves with crushed ice. 1 jigger of your favourite rum. Repeat as needed.

[Ron Garson]

Hot Toddy!

[Jupiter]

Just go to bed until it's over.

[DeepSouth]

Just redefine the cold.

From where I'm sitting it's not a summer cold. It's a winter cold.

[cband7]

Granny Clampett from The Beverly Hillbillies had a cure: you took it and you were well in 'a week or ten days'......



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[Lowbassnotes]

A bag of tortilla chips and a big bowl of hot salsa. I like to combat a virus with fire, eating a couple hot chile peppers seems to help too.

[Feargal]

Raw onions , garlic and chili, mixed into the hottest salsa you can take with fresh tomatoes for vit C.

[telleutelleme]

Let me know when you find out. So far time seems to be the only thing that has worked.

[brewwagon]

hot baths with epsom salt

[mal paso]

You don't by any chance live near a Tibetan restaurant do you?




Kham Amdo Thugpa, medium spice.




It'll clear it right up

[Jazzerstang]

regular use of multivitamins- no joke- everyday. Eat healthy. Sleep well. Exercise. Relax. Airborne helps too when you suspect that you have been exposed. Have not had a cold for over a year-- knock on wood.