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Join Date: 27 Oct 2010
Location:  QatarPosts: 404 |
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Home Remedies for Colds |
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Are cold symptoms making you feel miserable? Here are 12 cold remedies you can use right now -- at home -- to feel better.
Cold Remedy #1: Drink plenty of fluids to help break up your congestion. Drinking water or juice will prevent dehydration and keep your throat moist. You should drink at least 8 to 10 eight-ounce glasses of water daily. Cold Remedy #2: Inhale steam to ease your congestion and drippy nose. Hold your head over a pot of boiling water and breathe through your nose. Be careful. If the steam burns your nose, breathe in more slowly. Cold Remedy #3: Blow your nose often, but do it the proper way. It's important to blow your nose regularly when you have a cold rather than sniffling mucus back into your head. But when you blow hard, pressure can carry germ-carrying phlegm back into your ear passages, causing earache. Cold Remedy #4: Use saline nasal sprays or make your own salt water rinse to irrigate your nose. Here's a popular recipe: Mix 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda in 8 ounces of warm water. Fill a bulb syringe with this mixture. Lean your head over a basin, and using the bulb syringe, gently squirt the salt water into your nose. Hold one nostril closed by applying light finger pressure while squirting the salt mixture into the other nostril. Let it drain. Repeat two to three times, and then treat the other nostril. Cold Remedy #5: Stay warm and rested. Staying warm and resting when you first come down with a cold or the flu helps your body direct its energy toward the immune battle. Cold Remedy #6: Gargle with warm salt water. Gargling can moisten a sore or scratchy throat and bring temporary relief. To reduce the tickle in your throat, try an astringent gargle -- such as tea that contains tannin -- to tighten the membranes. Or use a thick, viscous gargle made with honey, popular in folk medicine. Steep one tablespoon of raspberry leaves or lemon juice in two cups of hot water; mix with one teaspoon of honey. Let the mixture cool to room temperature before gargling. Am sure your cold will be well soon.  |
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Join Date: 08 Dec 2011
Location:  Saudi ArabiaPosts: 52 |
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RE: Home Remedies for Colds |
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Also sip in as much hot chicken soup as you can. Chicken soup really helps you to cure cold soon. Tried and tested remedy  |
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Join Date: 22 Dec 2011
Location:  United StatesPosts: 3 |
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RE: Home Remedies for Colds |
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Very interesting tips... Thanks for sharing.....
men's health |
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Post # 4
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Join Date: 18 Jul 2010
Location:  KuwaitPosts: 274 |
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RE: Home Remedies for Colds |
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really all very nice tips...thanks for that. |
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