Medical Curing a Cold: A Mom's French Fry Remedy

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Curing a cold often involves home remedies and over-the-counter medications. One participant highlights the comfort of homemade french fries as a personal remedy, but they are unavailable due to a family member's absence. Suggestions include making the fries oneself or asking for the recipe. For symptom relief, common recommendations include staying hydrated, resting, and using medications like Zicam for sore throats and Mucinex D for congestion. While these medications can alleviate symptoms, they do not cure the cold. Another suggestion is to use a combination of pseudoephedrine and triprolidine for effective symptom suppression. Overall, the focus is on managing symptoms and ensuring adequate rest and hydration during recovery.
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How to cure a cold??

Usually when I have colds, I eat french fries and they seem to go away within a couple of days. Problem is, it only works with the french fries that my mom makes and she is away this weekend and I have exams next week and I can't take them with snot coming out of my nose.

What do to? Shall I ask my mom to cook the fries and send them over by plane or is there medical treatment for this seemingly incurable disease?
 
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Bipolarity said:
Usually when I have colds, I eat french fries and they seem to go away within a couple of days. Problem is, it only works with the french fries that my mom makes and she is away this weekend and I have exams next week and I can't take them with snot coming out of my nose.

What do to? Shall I ask my mom to cook the fries and send them over by plane or is there medical treatment for this seemingly incurable disease?

Ask her how she makes them and fry them up yerself. Sounds more like comfort food to me though.
 


For sore throat, I usually take Zicams. For conjestion, mucinex D is pretty good. It's really powerful though and you would need to be a certain age to get it since it's OTC.
 


No problem, I have a sure-fire cure.

1. Drink water - a lot of it.

2. Get in bed. Sleep.

3. Repeat 1 and 2 until you feel better.

You'll be fine for exams next week!
 


I can't take them with snot coming out of my nose.

Genetically malfunctioning people (allergies) have been doing this since the dawn of time almost, harden up.
 


Take a cold medicine with pseudoephedrine hydrochloride 60 mg as the nasal decongestant and triprolidine hydrochloride 2.5 mg as the antihistamine. You won't even know that you have a cold.

It's not a cure but will suppress cold symptoms.
 
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