Ways to Fight the Common Cold

We all know and have experienced the dreaded symptoms before at one time or another. You are sneezing and you have a runny nose. Maybe your nose is congested and your throat is extremely sore. Your body might ache and you are tired. So what do you have exactly? You have caught what they call the common cold. Well it's too late unfortunately to prevent it so how can we fight it? There are ways to do this in order to lessen the severity of a cold that you might be facing. I've compiled a list here of ways to deal with a cold.

1. Sleep! Your body right now is in overdrive fighting off the cold and you will need extra rest. More so than normal. That extra added rest will give you a quicker recovery time. You'll be tired anyway from the cold so why not sleep?

2. Drive plenty of fluids. These fluids can include soup, water, juice (for that vitamin c we all need) or tea. No dairy here like milk. This can increase the thickness of your mucus and you do not want that. Keep glass of water always next to your bed. You will need to replenish those fluids that are lost and keep your body constantly hydrated.

3. Eat foods that are spicy! This is my personal favorite and I don't need a cold as an excuse to eat them. What does this do? This forces out the mucus which is a good thing.

4. Now this falls under the fluids category but in particular you should drink ginger tea. I'm not a big fan of it but it does work. It will calm that itchy and scratchy throat that has you up at all hours of the night which can be a nightmare to deal with. It will also help to clear out your nose. Ah relief! You can actually breathe, maybe not smell yet but that will come back in due time, I promise.

5. Eat garlic. Chop up a couple of cloves and put it in your food. If you don't like garlic, you can always take a capsule. It helps to clear things up, gets rid of fluids and is antiviral along with antibacterial. Not bad huh?

6. Take Echinacea. I always have a bottle of this in my house. I bought them in capsule form but you can also open the capsule and add it to water to make tea with it. Echinacea helps to strengthen and boost your immune system. This is what you need most while you are fighting a cold.

There you have it! That's the list. Hopefully these will work for you.