Common Cold

[powell11]

Anyone know what food/drink or any other remedies can help keep a cold down, just so i can get through my daily work?

Thanks :D

[cazzz1975]

I find soup very good for colds, I tend to have chicken noodle soup.

lots of hot warming drinks, I tend to take a paracetamol if I have a headache as well.

[Eve]

I find Day Nurse very good. Olbas oil can be good on a tissue to help decongest.

Those Cool and Soothe type pads you put on your head are great though you might look a bit daft at work.

I also love hot juice (cordial), find it really soothing.

Lots of fresh air too, keep up the fluids, get as much sleep as possible outside of work.

[NoMercy]

Lots of fresh chillies - the hotter the better.

[askyourgran]

Beechams powders, sometimes cold remedies make you drowsy. Warm blackcurrent juice, in fact warm drinks and paracetamol.

[rowanwitch]

elderberry cordial or ginger and lemon with honey made with hot water.. and paracetamol... olbas oil on a tissue but don't sniff it too often... and I just pick on fruit the rest of the time

[Hopkirk]

Lemsip when you have a cold.

Regular vitamin C and zinc before you catch one, to bolster your immune system.

[chazza]

Paracetamol to lower your temperature, echinacea, vitamin C and Zinc to counteract the symptoms, and I find that a drink made with a squeeze of lemon juice, spoonful of honey and topped up with boiled water soothes my throat and makes me feel better