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Rest, fluids, steam, saline, gargle and honey over age 1 genuinely ease a cold; antibiotics and megadose vitamin C do not.
No home remedy cures a cold - your immune system does that on schedule. But several home measures genuinely ease the days while it works, and a few popular ones are useless or worse. The honest list, both ways.
Rest, fluids, steam, saline, gargle and honey (over age 1) are the home remedies that genuinely help a cold - antibiotics are the mistake, and vitamin C megadoses are mostly hope.
Written By
Dr. Daksh
BDS
Reviewed By
Dr. Varun Gupta
MD Pharmacology, MBBS
Last updated on
27 Sep 2022 • 06:23 PM (IST)
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