Get Well Soon: Essential Remedies for Beating the Common Cold

Ever found yourself battling a stubborn cold and wishing for a magic potion to speed up recovery? Having just emerged from my own recent bout of sniffles and sneezes, I’m here to share the tried-and-true remedies that helped me bounce back. In this episode of the Fruit Blenders Podcast, we explore the essentials—from staying hydrated with water, healthy juices, and warm lemon honey drinks to the soothing embrace of rest and relaxation. Discover how sipping on warm liquids like chicken soup or tea can ease congestion and learn the simple yet effective ways to maintain moisture in your environment to fight off stuffiness.

Join us as we dig into the healing power of honey for soothing coughs and the benefits of using saline nasal drops, especially for infants and young children. We delve into age-appropriate methods for relieving sore throats and the importance of using over-the-counter options wisely for pain relief. Whether you’re a loyal listener or tuning in for the first time, these practical tips will serve as your toolkit for navigating your next cold with comfort and ease. Get ready to feel better faster with these comforting and practical solutions.

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https://www.piedmont.org/living-real-change/9-natural-cold-and-flu-remedies

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night. Wherever you are and however you are watching or listening, welcome to Fruit Blenders Podcast. On today's episode, our main topic and subject is cold remedies that work If you are sick. These are the cold remedies that work For those who caught a cold or a fever. Have you ever wondered is there a way I can get better faster? I mean, of course, we cannot control the insides of our body and how our cells are bouncing around. Well, the last few days, especially this weekend over, I've been sick. I've been sick, but I'm well now and I'm feeling better. I feel better, had to take some time off everything and I just had to take a break. I had to take a break from everything and I'm blessed enough to have a team behind me that does everything that's needed to be done, and I'm proud of them. I am. But hey, we're back now. And for those who've been tuning in, thank you for always supporting the podcast. I see the results, I see the numbers. Thank you all so much for the support. It's much appreciated. And my new subscribers I see you all. Thank you so much. You are all amazing, thank you.

Speaker 1: 1:56

Let's get back to the episode. So If you caught a cold Fever, some kind of illness let's just say in the cold department and you were a cold, expect to be sick for 1-2 weeks. That doesn't mean you have to feel awful, but if you really want to get better faster and sooner, this might just help you. Drink plenty of fluids. Drink water. Enough juice, healthy juice, clear broth or warm lemon water with honey helps loosen stuffiness. Cold congestion these also help prevent losing too much fluids called dehydration. Don't drink alcohol, coffee and sodas with caffeine. They make dehydration even worse. Rest your body needs rest to heal. Plenty, plenty of rest. Get lots and lots of sleep. Sip warm liquids. Many cultures use warm liquids such as chicken soup, tea or warm apple juice for colds. Warm liquids might ease stuffiness by increasing mucus flow, and mucus is what is stuck in your nose, that leads up to your brain and your head. Mucus is just everywhere. So warm liquids might ease stuffiness by increasing mucus flow.

Speaker 1: 4:17

Honey, try honey. Honey may help coughs in adults and children who are older than age one. Try it in warm tea or lemon water. I have done this and it works. It's been doing this. It's been helping me for years, for years.

Speaker 1: 4:42

Also, add cool moisture to the air. A cool mist vaporizer or a humidifier can add moisture to your home. Moisture might help ease stuffiness. Change the water daily. Remember that. Change the water daily.

Speaker 1: 5:01

If you have a humidifier or a vaporizer, clean the unit as the maker instructs it, as the maker instructs those who have a sore throat. This is the way you soothe a sore throat. If you have a sore throat, using a salt water gargle can relieve it for a while. Put one and a half to one and a half teaspoon of salt in an eight ounce glass of warm water. And remember, children under the age of 6 years most likely cannot gargle. Yet you also can try ice chips.

Speaker 1: 6:04

Sore throat sprays or hard candy or hard candy. Take care when giving or taking hard candy to children because they can choke on them. Mint hard candy. Don't give hard candies to children younger than 6 years old. Ease stuffiness.

Speaker 1: 6:36

Selene nasal drops and sprays you can get without a prescription can help relieve stuffiness For infants. Experts suggest putting a few Seline drops into one nostril. Then use a bulb syringe to gently suck out that nostril. To do this, squeeze the bulb Gently, place the syringe tip in the nostril about one to 1 and a half inch, about 6 to 12 milliliters and slowly release the bulb. You can use saline nasal sprays in older children as well.

Speaker 1: 7:32

Relieve pain Relieve pain. Adults can take many, many pain pills such as Tylenol, ibuprofen, advil, mortar and IB others or Aspirin. Do not give children or teenagers Aspirin, mortren, ib OTHERS OR ASPIRIN. Do NOT GIVE CHILDREN OR TEENAGERS ASPIRIN. Aspirin HAS BEEN LINKED TO REA'S SYNDROME AND A RARE LIFE-DRIVING CONDITION IN CHILDREN OR TEENAGERS WHO HAVE THE FLU OR CHICKEN POX. Treatment of fever or pain. Consider giving your infants or children versions of medicines available without prescription. Examples are Tylenol, ibuprofen, advil, mortrin, etc. These can be used as a safer alternative to aspirin.

Speaker 1: 8:30

Try Cold and Cough Medicines For adults and children age 5 or older. Pain relievers available without a prescription might ease some symptoms, but they won't prevent a cold or shorten how long it lasts, and most have some side effects. We all agree that these shouldn't be given to younger children. We all agree that these shouldn't be given to younger children. Using too much of these medicines or not using them the right way can cause serious damage. Talk with your children's child's healthcare professional and healthcare providers before giving any of these medicines to your loved ones and your children.

Speaker 1: 9:21

Take medicines only as the label says. Some cold remedies have mixed ingredients, such as decongestant plus a pain reliever. If you also take a pain reliever, taking a decongestant with a pain reliever could cause problems. Read the labels of the cold medicines to make sure you're not taking too much of any medicine. Read the label carefully. The list of cold remedies that don't give relief is long. Some of the more common ones include medicines called antibiotics. These attack germs called bacteria, but they're no help against cold viruses. Don't ask your health care provider for antibiotics for a cold or use old antibiotics you have. You won't get well faster and using antibiotics when you don't need them adds to the serious and growing problem of germs that can resist antibiotics.

Speaker 1: 10:35

Cold and cough medicines in young children. Cold and cough medicines in young children. Cold and cough medicine you can get without a prescription can harm children. Do not give any cold and cough medicines to children under age 4 years of age. Talk with your child's health care provider before giving any medicines to children ages 4 to 6 years old. Know that these medicines may not help much and may have side effects.

Speaker 1: 11:14

Cold remedies with mixed study results Alright. So in spite of ongoing studies, the scientists still today don't know whether some cold remedies such as vitamin C and zinc, work. Here's what we all know and here's what studies know. Vitamin c taking vitamin c has not been shown to help prevent colds, but some studies have found that taking vitamin c before cold symptoms start may shorten how long symptoms last. Vitamin C may help people at high risk of colds before or because they're often in contact with viruses that cause colds. For instance, children who go to group child care during the winter are at high risk, and this is very true. And this is very true. I have worked with children for so long and even in sports and coaching and after school programs and youth programs. Children getting sick is an ongoing cycle and it never ends until they get older and older as their immune system builds up. It's true, children are at high risk.

Speaker 1: 12:35

Zinc risk Zinc. Some studies show that zinc or syrup may prevent a cold or shorten symptoms. Other studies show zinc doesn't help at all. It's true.

Speaker 1: 12:50

I mean, what has helped me the last few days is my mom's secret recipes and secret remedies at home, and once she taught me that I just took that and used it to my advantage. So what she does is she cuts up some ginger, some garlic sometimes with it, and lots and lots of lemon oranges, lots and lots of lemon oranges. And if you boil that and steam it into your face, it really helps you a lot my mother has taught me so much and honey and tea and all the good stuff. So if you are sick and bad right now as you listen to this episode, get up. You know, make some soup, cut up some lemons, cut up some oranges, get a little bit of garlic, some ginger, some cinnamon sticks, toss into a bowl of hot water, let it boil up and use that. Let that steam into your face as a humidifier or vaporizer. Use that steam as a humidifier or a vaporizer to moisturize the air around you. So that's what my mother has taught me and I've been using that secret recipe for years now and it works. It works. I mean, I've only been sick for like two, three days. I want to say, but yeah, it really works.

Speaker 1: 14:23

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