What is the best Medicines or the best way to fight of a cold?!
Question: What is the best Medicines or the best way to fight of a cold?
i have been taking vitamin C drops a lot but nothing really has help to cure it.
what medicines help the most and the fastest. Also i have had my christmas tree for a week and a half but i dont know if its just allergies or what?
please help me
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5 to 10,000 iu of vitamin D3 a day will prevent colds and flu. Double that in divided doses throughout the day to get over one much faster. 10,000 mg a day of vitamin C is also effective -- it has to be taken in large doses. Wimpy amounts don't work.
Drink lots of hot tea with lemon juice and honey. It's the best standalone home remedy. Drug store products that claim to treat cold symptoms are useless.
There is no cure for the common cold - a Nobel Prize awaits the person who first comes up with one.
If you take nothing for a cold it will go away in 1-2 weeks. If you do take something, it will go away in 7-14 days. Anyone who suggests otherwise is either deluded or a fraud.
The best you can do is manage the symptoms, and over the counter cold and flu medicines from a pharmacy work the best hands down.
Airborn is a scam. Read: http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/zimne…
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EDIT: @kathy millar, you have been giving out some very bad advice lately and you need to be called out. You said: "Vitamin C will only get rid of a cold if you take enough to saturate every cell in your body". I don't believe this is true at all - please provide your peer reviewed scientific data that supports this claim.
Not sure if there is a cure:
Vitamin D3 as has already been mentioned.
Zinc lozenges are awesome.
Hydrogen Peroxide. Some people do IV's at a clinic. It kills it instantly! Viruses can not live in an oxygenated environment thus the extra molecule in Peroxide with it's extra oxygen molecule does the tricks.
But if you don't want to go to a clinic then just buy the store bought stuff, place a couple drops in one ear for 10 minutes then the other. As well as gargle well with it. Swallow a few drops of it several times per day as well.
Experience.
airborne does help a cold, its some vitamins and things...you put it in water and it fizzes like alkaselzer. Vitamin C will only get rid of a cold if you take enough to saturate every cell in your body with as much as it wants, and it is difficult to reach this level, without a doctor giving you it by iv...and if you don't reach that saturation point, your cold will get worse, because it makes more of the phlem, you will think your going to drown from blowing your nose...it does help keep it clear, though. I took one time a bottle of 100 500 mg vitamin C and my cold got worse, the next day I took another bottle, and within an hour the cold was gone. Every other time I tried it it didn't work. Keeping your neck warm, wear a warm neckscarf also helps. I went 15 years without catching one, then I got whooping cough, and now it seems I catch one after another...
No medicine will cure a cold. The cold virus mutates so fast that it's impossible to come up with a reliable antiviral drug for it. Your immune system will take care of the infection; just rest, eat healthfully and drink plenty of water.
vitamin c does nothing to help ease a cold. I'd say take echinacea. It's an herbal supplement that is supposed to reduce cold symptoms by about 1.5 days. sleep is also great.
tylenol makes a pill called sinus pressure and severe pain thats the only thing that has helped me.. i think its just the weather