how to fight the cold or flu

The winter months come around, January and February, and these are the most common months of the year for people to be getting sick. It starts with that first sneeze or that scratchy throat feeling, and you just realized your going to get sick or already are with the cold or the flu. You feel miserable, like crawling into a dark whole until it is gone. You do not have any energy to do anything or go anywhere. You do not feel like having any company, except your mommy to come and take care of you. You just feel icky and want to hide under the cover's. I do not blame you, the cold and or the flu is not a good feeling at all and we all suffer from these at some time or another.

It is average now that 200,000 americans are hospitalized each year for flu like symptoms.

The cold will last about a week and the flu will last you about three week's or more. These icky symptoms are:

1. a stuffy nose

2. a runny nose

3. a cough

4. body aches and pains

5. possible fever

these symptoms will make a person feel down right icky with no motivation. But some people are still required to go to work, even if they are sick, some people just have no choice in the matter.

Here are some excellent ways you can fight your cold or flu and feel somewhat better so you can at least get to work and try to do your job, or if not going to work then it will help you feel better at home while your sick, it will be a little better for you.

Before anything else or before you even get sick, be sure to get yourself a flu shot, this is very important and will help fight against getting you sick in the first place. You can get the flu shot at a lot of different locations and they are affordable and some places offer them free. Here are a few places they are available.

1. Walgreens www.walgreens.com

2. Target www.target.com

3. Qfc www.qfc.com

4. Walmart www.walmart.com

That is just a few places, but they are available at a lot of different pharmacy's now and are absolutely the best in fighting from getting sick.

Be sure to drink lots of liquids such as water, orange juice and tea. Liquids are very important for fighting the cold or flu, also fights against dehydration.

Blow your nose as often as you can, this helps the stuffy nose congestion a little bit.

Try gargling with warm water and some salt(about a teaspoon0, this will help the scratchy throat feeling, do this a few times a day.

Take a steamy shower or a steamy bath, this helps the clear your nasal passage and help you to feel better.

Take some vitamin c. we all know that we need the vitamin c to help our immune system fight. It will fight with you and it is also very healthy for you.

Put some vick's vapor rub under your nose or on your chest, this will also help keep your nasal passage clear so you can breathe better.

So when it is time for the cold and flu season to come around, try using all of these idea's to help you feel better and hope for a faster recovery, I know for me, these things have absolutely helped me to feel a lot better so I was able to still go to work when I was sick. God luck in the fight with that cold or flu. I hope you win.