Sick with a cold and want to be better by christmas!!?!
Question: Im sick with a cold and christmas is coming and im having a house full of people come and cant afford to be sick right now!! I called out of work yesterday... unfortunately i have to go in today... but im looking for any ideas of how i can I get better faster?! I started sleeping with a vaporizorer last night... my symptoms are stuffy, runny, nose, congestion, and itchy ears... ive tried tylenol cold medicine... but that only will mask my symptoms for a few hours then im back to feeling crappy again... i dont wanna mask them i wanna get rid of them!!
Answers: Im sick with a cold and christmas is coming and im having a house full of people come and cant afford to be sick right now!! I called out of work yesterday... unfortunately i have to go in today... but im looking for any ideas of how i can I get better faster?! I started sleeping with a vaporizorer last night... my symptoms are stuffy, runny, nose, congestion, and itchy ears... ive tried tylenol cold medicine... but that only will mask my symptoms for a few hours then im back to feeling crappy again... i dont wanna mask them i wanna get rid of them!!
A cold is a virus, and nothing you can take is going to shift it off any quicker. Your immune system has to fight the beggar off, and that takes a week to 10 days. Days 3-5 are usually the worst, after that it generally starts to ease off and you feel more human. The cold medicines are only meant to help ease the symptoms, they aren't actually a treatment. The vaporizer won't hurt anything, but generally it's easier to breath cooler moist air than warm moist air. So try lowering the thermostat in the room you sleep in. If you can rest and drink plenty of fluids, the cold medicines should help you manage the worst of the symptoms. It's reasonable to think that if you can rest, you should be well on the mend by the big day as it's about a week from now. Meantime, invest in the tissues with aloe in them, your nose will thank you and you won't end up playing Rudolf on Christmas Eve. Sorry, it's a virus and there just aren't any miracle cures.
keep taking the cold medicine. try mucinex dm it gets rid of mucus. and drink a lot of orange juice and take vitamin c pills. try not to go outside then back in as much as u can help it.
Drink plenty of fluids and just ride it out. There isn't much you can do really for a cold. But try an early night or two. Sleep will help.
The itchy ears gave me a clue, you might have allergy's, try an allergy medicine if you can take them, something like Sudafed. Also, take some vitamin C a large dose, will help and any your body doesn't use, you will excrete when you urinate. if you have a cold too. There is something on the market called COLD SNAP. I used to buy it at Albertsons grocery pharmacy in Evergreen Colorado. it was amazing, you take the medication as prescribed on the bottle and your cold is Gone in a day. no kidding it truly worked. It's Chinese medication which consists of a whole load of herbs . see if you can find that too
Try natural food for medicines and purify the air at home. Lemon peel tea for colds and Lysol for the air
Stop taking cold medicine and fill a bowl with hot water and Vick's vapor rub dissolved in it and look face down above the liquid with a towel over your head and breathe deeply and your sinuses will open up and your congestion will clear up! Do this repeatedly and get extra sleep and drink lots of hot liquids, and you'll feel better almost immediately! Stay away from most of the new cold remedies because they will just make your symptoms remain or get worse! They want you to remain ill not get better!