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Cold/flu, I hate having to spend a week in bed every 8 weeks or so. Any less-known tips?
For example I thought that dealing with ear pain with a cup of pan heated salt poured into a sock and held against it (increases blood circulation and somehow that helps) is pretty universal, but just yesterday it turned out an Austrian pharmacist never heard about it. It may be new to you as well. As a traditional folk remedy, it provides very quick symptomatic belief, works in about 10 mins, but if the pain returns the next day, doctor.
For the record, the known tips are: paracetamol (tylenol) but with muchas caution as it is a liver killer, or ibuprofen (I would say if you have kids, don't even keep paracetamol/tylenol in the house, ibuprofen works just as well and is safer) vit C, hot tea preferably with honey, bed, various kinds of throat lozenges.
When I was a child, I had this. A 6 week cycle of cold -> sinus infection which required antibiotics to normalize, 5 weeks of normalcy, then another one. I didn't grow at all during 1st grade due to constantly being sick.
I had bad adenoids - they're like tonsils but in the back of your nose. They are supposed to shrink away to nothing as you grow but mine were hypertrophic and blocking part of the drainage and thus causing constant infections. I had them removed in a quick and easy surgery in second grade, the cycle ended instantly, and I caught up with my classmates quite quickly.