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What are everyone’s go-to cold remedies or prevention tips?


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  • Drink plenty of fluids. …
    Get enough sleep. …
    Use saline drops. …
    Gargle salt water. …
    Take pain relievers. …
    Take a spoonful of raw or manuka honey. …
    Use a humidifier. …
    Sip warm liquids.


  • Olive leaf extract to build up immunity, and if we do get a cold, then lots of water, lots of rest, and home made chicken soup.


  • Honey and lemon hot water , pineapple juice I just seem to crave it when I’m sick


  • Stay warm and I have a small bottle of Black Liquid Echidnea in the cupbaord as cough medicine don’t work for me which was recommended by a friend after so many years of constant colds and coughing .


  • Stay warm and hydrated and remember to eat well.


  • As prevention we always take at least 2 tablets of vitamin C daily during winter times.


  • Rest for prevention with lots of fluids and good healthy food.
    Fluids and rest to ease symptoms and steam, all the steam.


  • When I was a child my grandmother used to put Eucalyptus on my pillow slip and give me half teaspoon of honey with a few drops of lemon juice to swallow. Seemed to work.


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