Kick that cold out! 10 tips to get better fast

If you’re one of those people, who keep catching colds as soon as the fall starts, you definitely need to figure out the way to tough it out fast and go back to your life in full force. Working or studying while being cold is not fun at all, especially when a terrible headache, general weakness and other well-known cool symptoms of a cold ruin your efficiency and turn you into snotty sloth.

Obviously, when the cold gets too serious (high persistent temperature, bad cough), it’s better to rush to your doctor to prevent more dangerous complications, define the diagnosis and find the right treatment, maybe antibiotics.

But, when it’s nothing more than a normal seasonal cold, you may definitely tough it out with the help of the basic nasal spray, painkillers or even natural cold remedies. And, there’re a few tricks you may use to get rid of a cold and get your energy back a lot faster than expected.

How to get over a cold fast

1. Stay at home. Avoid a common mistake of going to work/school with a slight or minor cold and coming back home feeling like you were run over by a cold train.
   It’s better to stay for a couple of days at home and take care of your health than make your cold a lot worse and close yourself at home for a week or so.
2. Make sure to stay hydrated. When you have a cold, your body loses a lot of fluids by sweating and having a runny nose.
   That’s why it’s important to drink a lot of fluids, preferably warm fluids (like raspberry, Echinacea or ginger teas, warm milk, etc.).
3. Help your immune system run by consuming a couple of teaspoons of pure honey a day. Some people even claim that honey helped them cure minor colds overnight. If you want to, you may try their recipe out as well. You just need to add a teaspoon of honey and half a teaspoon of lemon juice to a cup of warm water and drink it before going to bed.
   Even if it doesn’t get rid of your cold overnight, honey will boost your immune function and enrich your body with natural vitamin C. When taken pure, honey’s also great at soothing sore throats. And it’s quite tasty, right?
4. Eat well. Your appetite isn’t that great when you’re stuck in bed with a tiring cold.
   However, your body needs a lot of energy to combat it. Consume low-fat and high-fiber foods to provide your body with it.
   Vegetable-based warm meals, a lot fresh organic vitamin-rich fruits and yogurt with its beneficial bacteria should constitute your ‘being cold’ diet.

   Vegetable or chicken broth and soups help soothe cold throats and relief nose congestions as well.
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5. Treat yourself to hot baths and showers to relax your body and reduce nasal irritation.
   Carry out short steaming sessions for the same reason.
   Just lean your head over a pot of steaming water mixed with essential oils, garlic or herbs, cover your head and a pot with a thick towel and inhale the steam.
   Don’t stay under the towel for more than 10 minutes.
6. Don’t be lazy to wash and blow your nose in your bathroom under the warm running water, but not with the help of tissues.
   If you rub your stuffy nose with tissues too much, you might add the skin irritation to the existing congestion discomfort.
7. Combine natural remedies with medicine in order to get rid of cold faster.
   Drink peppermint, lemon, turmeric and ginger teas, eat fresh garlic, take apple cider vinegar and warm water mix (2tbsp of vinegar to a cup of warm water) three times a day, make sure to consume enough vitamins and rest a lot.
   If you’re looking for easy recipes for homemade natural cold remedies and teas, visit Everydayroots.com.
8. Gargle to cure your cold throat. Prepare your gargling liquid.
   You may choose a salt and water mix (1tsp of salt to 1 cup of warm water), a turmeric mix (1/2tsp of turmeric, 1/2tsp of salt and a cup of warm water), sage tea (1tsp of sage leaves (fresh or dry) for 1 cup of warm water) and gargle at least 4 times a day. Use up the entire cup of gargling cold remedy each time.
9. Keep track of your temperature. It’s not good for your body to withstand high temperature for too long.
   While minor temperature raises even help to combat the cold, too high and lasting temperature needs to be reduced.
   Take paracetamol, increase your liquid intake and take elderberry syrup to bring down your fever.
10. Cold is not for sharing! If you’re not living alone, isolate yourself in one room, close the door, open windows to ventilate the room several times a day, eat and drink from one cup and bowl, wear a mask when interacting with other people outside your ‘quarantine zone’, wash your hands frequently and cough/sneeze into tissues, not your hands.