How can I recover faster from a cold or the flu?

[mamysandycandy]

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Thanks everybody for all your helpful suggestions and kind heart🥰🥰🥰trying some of the suggestions and will see if they works.

[ohsheeT]

It depends on if I catch it in time before I allow it to happen all the way when I feel something start to happen the first thing I do is I either get cold medicine or mouthwash and I hold it in my mouth for at least 10 minutes because that's where they start from it's either there nose or your eyes I always think it's in my mouth so I hold one of those two things in there for at least 10 minutes and I take two bare aspirin and that will either stop it or slow it down

But either one or both of them are viruses I think so it just depends I've had blues that only lasted the day I've had colds last three to five days

And I always make chicken soup I don't know if it's just in my head but I think it's in the broth but that helps me too

[Anonymous]

Drink plenty of water, eat fruit and plain foods. Warm baths. Try to sleep it off as much as you can.

there's no magic bullet, you just have to get through it. So its time. I always try to sleep through it.

[Opinion Owner]

Try having sex or masturbating as well.

[mamysandycandy]

I will do that, although I need to buy more fruits. Only have apples and one pear left😅

[mamysandycandy]

My boyfriend ia not her for that lol

[Billlewis]

Take plenty of B and C vitamins, drink plenty of water and take hot showers.

[mamysandycandy]

Does multivitamin works?

[Billlewis]

You should be taking them anyway. However, you'll never get enough of a specific vitamin from a multivitamin on its own, thus the need for individual supplementation. Remember, the US recommended (USRDA) is the amount required to keep you from dying, not necessarily what you should be receiving. There are exceptions, of course; you don't want to take too much iron or vitamin A, but you still need more B and C than you'll get from a multi.

[mamysandycandy]

I understand

[AngryCarl3]

Don't get out of bed until you feel better. Drink plenty of water. Don't pig out on antipyretics, let the fever do it's work.

[AngryCarl3]

Flu doesn't care about your work schedule, sorry.

[mamysandycandy]

3 days, which is 39 hours work 😭😭😭i have to survive. And i have things to clean and wash at home to reduce contamination.

[AngryCarl3]

don't worry about contamination. You can only get sick once.

[mamysandycandy]

I hope so

[NathanDavis]

I cannot ever recommend it to others but...

I like to do cold showers, cold beverages... pills for the headaches and I just ignore it, I keep working and just sweat it all out

[Levin]

Just take a chill pill and let your body do its thing.

There is no need to recover quickly. That is the wrong way of thinking. Your body will do its thing.

[Anonymous]

My momma always used to say if push the fluids, eat chicken soup, get plenty of rest it takes 14 days to fully get over the flu. Otherwise it takes 2 weeks.

[mamysandycandy]

14 days? Thats to long i have 3 night shift from tomorrow to Friday, i wanna get well faster so that i don't miss to much work.

[Kelly6]

@mamysandycandy Drink more water,

Don't eat heavy food.

Keep digestion healthy

[mamysandycandy]

Thanks for the advice

[FreyaRed]

Natural vitamin C and sleep. Your body needs to replenish dead cells after virus infection.

[Alex-Snow]

Bed rest, stay hydrated and avoid contact with others. Any fever or body aches? If so, Tylenol might help. I hope you feel better soon :)

[jahaims]

Sleep more. Take in proper nutrition if you don't already

[Abbycado]

Definitely stay hydrated. Gatorade helps.

[mamysandycandy]

Gotta do that, even tho I sick at remembering ro drink water

[Abbycado]

That’s super important to stay hydrated. Hope you feel better.

[mamysandycandy]

I try, thank you Abby! @Abbycado

[queenofcardio]

Lots of rest and hydrate

[bowenw]

Homemade chicken soup

[Erron_Black]

maybe herbal teas

[mamysandycandy]

Drinking mint tea with honey right now, is it enough?

[Erron_Black]

You'll get to try it out; you just shouldn't go overboard.

[mamysandycandy]

Not to drink it all the time?

[Erron_Black]

dont try all mint

[In_Trance]

Go vegan

[mamysandycandy]

Nahh i am good. I like meat and dairy products

[mamysandycandy]

Thanks for the suggestion tho

[In_Trance]

Suit yourself... That's what's keeping you sick

[MereAnarchy]

Tamiflu

[mamysandycandy]

What is that?

[MereAnarchy]

Antiviral drug

[Bradleyyeldarb]

Zinc and vitamin c

[mamysandycandy]

Vitamin c tablets or from fruits?

[Bradleyyeldarb]

Tablets 1000mg or more