I woke up with a scratchy throat?!
Question: My daughter was over yesterday and she wasn't feeling good. Am I in for a nice cold? How can I nip this?
Answers: My daughter was over yesterday and she wasn't feeling good. Am I in for a nice cold? How can I nip this?
If she was there yesterday, chances are it is not her that gave you a cold. It typically takes 3-5 days after exposure to develop symptoms.
Go to the drugstore and get some Zycam. I have heard really good things about it. You can also take some extra vitamin C for a couple days but not for longer than that. Make sure you drink plenty of water as well.
eat plenty of fruit (oranges) and drink peppermint tea.
The oranges are a direct source of vitamin C and they can provide much better results than a regular vitamin C tablet.
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Also, boil some water in a small pot and then put a towel over your head and the pot. Breath slowly. This will help get out viruses.
Take some Tylenol or Motrin. Drink some hot broth, tea, orange juice and eat some chicken noodle soup. Suck on some cough drops and get as much rest as possible. Hope the cold doesn't get you.
Get as much rest as you can and drink lots of clear fluids, hot and cold. Hot tea with honey and lemon is good for your throat, so are warm salt water gargles.
I've had good luck with Zicam Nasal Gel. It has to be the nose stuff, not the lozenges or sprays. You coat the inside of your nostrils with this zinc gel every few hours and it stops the cold germs from replicating so you don't get as sick or for as long.
Definitely clean/Lysol high touch surfaces (doorknob, phone, faucets) and make sure you're washing your hands a lot!
Take some of that airbourne. You can get at it any Walgreens. Or try some Old English 1800, that will surely cure your scratchy throat problem.
That's how it starts, take vit c, drink plenty of fluids & rest, try sugar free throat lozenges.
The Zicam nasal gel works very well, try it.it will keep you from getting really sick
You said Nip. lol.
Cold Remedy:
- Gargle with feta cheese and lawn fertilizer
- Sleep until noon (of next week)
and
- Order $642 worth of crap from QVC
You'll be feeling better in no time.
<---- healthcare expert
1Cup hot water
1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Rum
1 Teaspoon sugar
1 Tablespoon Honey
Combine all, stir & drink.
Have a few more, then go back to bed.
If nothing else, you will sleep well.
Go dig that towel out of the laundry and drape it over a big bowl of hot steamy water in which you have boiled orange peel, lemon juice, and mint... hang your head over it and breathe deep.
Then do all the things the other answers said 'cuz they're a lot smarter.