Feed a cold and starve a fever: What advice should you be offering?

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Feed a cold and starve a fever: What advice should you be offering?

Guest Writer

Guest Writer

Alesha Smith
Lemon and ginger
Hot lemon and ginger

For the otherwise well adult who does not need antibiotics for their cold and (possibly) flu symptoms, what advice can you reasonably offer beyond hot lemon and a pain reliever?

The cold is a common condi­tion characterised by sore throat, rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, cough, sneeze, headache and malaise. Most healthy adults get, on , Pharmaceutical grade remedies