Head cold...I'm dyin' up here!!

[Old TexMex]

This is one of the worst colds I've ever had. Somebody out there must have a cure I haven't heard of.....maybe?

 

[Rintimtin]

I use mucinex, well actually the Walmart brand equivalent. It works well for both chest and head congestion.

 

[Laketime]

Hot tomato soup with lots of crushed red pepper.Then immediately gargle with lots whiskey while the pours in your throat are opened up.

 

[Salty RI]

You can let it run it's course and it will take about two weeks, or you can get plenty of rest, eat soup and drink plenty of liquids and it will last about 14 days.

 

[okiegtrider]

Have you checked the Bourbon thread? Might not cure your cold, but you probably wont care.

 

[vonn]

This is one of the worst colds I've ever had. Somebody out there must have a cure I haven't heard of.....maybe?

Thought I had a head cold ,was the flu and 6 days later I am still alive but it was touch and go at first! good luck ! Hope you don't have the flu!

 

[tops]

Rock and Rye. Larry

 

[jbtrucker]

Alka Seltzer Plus cold Effervescent Tabs or Day/Night Gel Tabs

 

[DeathGrip]

'changes in latitude.

 

[e3mrk]

4-5 shots of either Johnny Walker or Jack Daniels.
It wont cure You but it makes being sick a lot more fun.

 

[sureshotbob]

My Dad used to work with a old Italian guy that swore you boil some red wine with cut up apple's drink it down when still hot. You will sweat out the cold.
My Dad did try it But I can not remember how good it worked. But what I do remember was it stunk up the whole house.

 

[dave holl]

Us old guys have to be careful that a cold doesn't turn into pneumonia. How do you be careful?
Drink plenty of fluids.
Treat the symptoms with OTC stuff.
Take a spoonful of honey nightly. (with whiskey)
If you don't feel any better in 5-6 days, especially if you feel it in your lungs, see a physician and get a chest xray.

 

[Onomea]

Ginger tea. If you have access to fresh ginger, grate some up, fine, and steep in boiling water. Add lemon, and honey to taste. (Probably works better at the front end of a cold when it can still head it off.)

 

[Grip_Maker's_Wife]

Being sick is no fun. If you just got the cold Airborne works wonders, but works best when you first feel the symptoms coming on. It has prevented me from being sick many times. If it has been a few days however, it will not make a difference.

For congestion, I think pseudoephedrine (real stuff from the pharmacist not the fake stuff on the shelf) combined with Guaifenesin (mucus thinner) work best together to get the stuff out. Stay away from orange juice and milk products as those increase mucus production.

Chicken soup, lots of hot liquids, plain water to help flush stuff out, and lots of rest. Hot water with fresh lemon and honey is great. Honey has antiviral properties. If you can stand the zinc lozenges they help shorten the cold but I can't stand the taste and they can upset the stomach too.

Good luck! I hope you feel better soon!

 

[V-35]

Alka Seltzer Plus cold Effervescent Tabs or Day/Night Gel Tabs

Alka Seltzer Plus works well for me along with 'Cold-Eze'. The Cold-Eze does nothing for your symptoms, but it will cut your cold duration in half. However they do taste awful. :-(

Art

 

[joeintexas]

Lots of liquids, soup, broth, whatever goes down good. At night a stiff shot of bourbon with honey,lemon and ginger. {maybe two}. Zinc seems to help also. Lots of rest. Colds are just a royal pain! Good luck my friend.

 

[pharman]

Very good product!

I use mucinex, well actually the Walmart brand equivalent. It works well for both chest and head congestion.

This is a very good product...I especially like the Mucinex D ...it will open your congestion up...you will have to sign for it at the prescription counter due to fact it contains pseudoephedrine...

 

[pharman]

Reminds me of Pharmacy college professor!

You can let it run it's course and it will take about two weeks, or you can get plenty of rest, eat soup and drink plenty of liquids and it will last about 14 days.

This reminds me of one of my professors at Pharmacy college...he used to say: if you have a cold and take medicine you will get better in 7 days...if you have a cold and do NOT take any medicine you will get better in 1 week!

Hey Salty RI...are you by chance an RPh?

 

[chaparrito]

I feel for you. I have it too. Head and chest. It's been a week yesterday. This a.m. for the first time I am waking not feeling like I'd been beat with a stick. Mucinex and Alka Seltzer cold fizzies - the ones with aspirin, not Tylenol. Echinacea and Goldenseal as well and three grams of Vitamin C a day for immune support.

 

[JSR III]

Go to the local Chinese restaurant and buy a bucket of hot and sour soup. Like other pepper loaded remedies, this works best when you first feel the symptoms coming on.

I have done this on numerous occasions and have warded off the long term effects of a cold more than once.

 

[Wishbone]

I feel your pain. The cedar tree pollen is in full force her and Im suffering big time. Happens every year and sucks every year.

 

[bearfoot]

not a cold, a crappy sinus infection!! 3 times to a doctor, 2 scripts of antibiotics, now finishing up 2ed. script of steroids. antibiotics weren't working. sinus infection was so bad it wouldn't let the AB work. was down for 4 days, the infection came back again, been dealing w/ this for a month, inflamed lungs/ nasal passages/ head sinus swelling, also feeling like I rolled down a mountain, ^^^^ like others above these infections just are lasting long. talked to a worker at the drs. office, said they have never seen colds/ sinus infections lasting so long. only do musinex dm when I want some relief. dr. changed me over to musinex d. everyone have a good weekend, happy new year, spring only 4 months away.

 

[bearfoot]

oh yea, live in sw Pa. thinking, these illnesses all over the country at the same time. now in the burgh they are starting to talk about the flu starting to show up in the counties of the state.

 

[old bear]

Jim, just lay low, get lots of rest, drink lost of juice and water. Get feeling better soon.

 

[Philadelphia Patriot]

A stomach bug is making its rounds here. My family has it, at least one person in every house I have been to this week has it, and my sister who works in an assistant living home confirmed it's hit her residents too.

 

[pharman]

Good Doctor!

dr. changed me over to musinex d.

Hey bearfoot...you have a very good Doctor...Mucinex D is a very good product that WILL open you up!

 

[Salty RI]

My Grandfather was Narragansett Indian and my Grandmother used to make up some Indian remedies, you needed a strong constitution to get them down but they worked, when she died they went with her.

 

[Lobogunleathers]

I am so sorry that you are under the weather! Hope you feel better soon!

 

[Watchdog]

This is one of the worst colds I've ever had. Somebody out there must have a cure I haven't heard of.....maybe?

You have my sympathies.

I have some sort of cold/virus thing right now...for the first time since 2012.

Severe muscle/joint aches/pain with some nasal congestion. It isn't the flu, but it's one of those things that bring back childhood memories of mom taking care of me until our family doctor made a house call. Yes, doctors really did visit sick kids at their home.

Any other day like today...temperatures in the low forties with clear Carolina blue skies, I'd have been out in the woods with the dogs and my backpack. Today, it was all I could do to get out of bed, and that was after sleeping from 7:30 p.m. last night until noon today.

So I decided to bypass all the home remedies, all the old wives' concoctions and witches' brews, and go straight to my doctor. I don't have time to waste on pot luck "cures". But that's not sayin' I'd refuse to use some of that stuff my friend Rusty uses. Just so we're clear on that.

So I got an Rx for Phenergan with codeine. Yay! I will eat a bowl of soup, then take a hit of the medicine and hopefully sleep the whole thing off.

I have no problems taking something with opioids in it. Wish I had a couple bottles of the stuff.

Hope you get to feelin' better.

 

[johngalt]

For me, being able to sleep it off is the key. If I get congested, I can't sleep, and can't recover.

Take whatever you need to that lets you sleep. NyQuil really helps me. I ignore the dosage instructions on the bottle, I usually need about double.

If you need something stronger, don't be shy about getting a prescription from the doc.