Curing a Cold: A Mom's French Fry Remedy

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around remedies for curing a cold, with a focus on personal experiences and suggestions for alleviating symptoms. Participants share various approaches, including home remedies and over-the-counter medications.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant claims that eating their mom's french fries helps them recover from colds, suggesting a personal remedy tied to comfort food.
  • Another participant suggests asking the mom for the recipe to make the fries themselves, framing it as a comfort food rather than a medical remedy.
  • A different participant recommends Zicam for sore throats and Mucinex D for congestion, noting the age restrictions for purchasing the latter.
  • Another participant offers a simple regimen of drinking water and sleeping as a way to recover from a cold.
  • One comment mentions that people with allergies have been managing cold symptoms for a long time, implying a level of resilience.
  • A participant suggests taking a cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine and triprolidine to suppress symptoms, clarifying that it is not a cure but can alleviate discomfort.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present a variety of remedies and approaches, with no consensus on a single effective treatment for colds. Different opinions on the efficacy of personal remedies versus over-the-counter medications are evident.

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Some suggestions are based on personal experiences and may not be universally applicable. The discussion includes varying degrees of medical advice and anecdotal remedies, which may depend on individual circumstances.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals seeking informal remedies for cold symptoms, those interested in personal experiences related to comfort food and illness, and readers looking for a variety of approaches to managing cold symptoms.

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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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