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9 Ways To Prevent or Treat A Cold

November 5, 2019

9 Ways to Prevent or Treat a Cold

Here’s how to prevent or treat a cold during the winter.

To prevent or treat a cold; that is the question. Ideally you will want to prevent the cold from happening. Sometimes that is not possible and the focus become treating a cold.

1. Don’t rub your eyes

Man rubbing his eyes at work.

Whether you think you are holding a winning lottery ticket or Mila Kunis has just strolled into your spinning class, whatever you do don’t rub your peepers. According to the NHS, a duct links the eyes and the nasal cavity, and any virus can easily transfer from your eyes to your nose and throat, causing an infection.

2. Keep it clean

Do we really need to say it? If you want to prevent or treat a cold keep it clean. The single best way to beat off bugs is to wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend you scrub your digits for around 20 seconds – as long as it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. In your head, though, not out loud.

3. Get hot and steamy

How To Prevent And Treat A Cold

At your gym, that is. Taking a sauna can halve your risk of picking up a nasty bug, according to an Austrian study: over a six-month period subjects taking a sauna twice a week experienced significantly fewer incidences of common cold symptoms compared with a control group who didn’t get hot under the collar.

No access to a gym? Don’t worry. You can create one at home. How to Create a Sauna Environment in a Bathroom by Wikihow has the steps laid out for you.

4. Then have a cold shower

An ice-cold shower increases your blood’s level of white cells, whose main responsibility is to seek and destroy any nasty invaders. Research from the Thrombosis Research Institute in London says that this spike is caused by your body’s metabolic rate increasing in an attempt to warm you up.

5. Take D, not C

Liquid nutrient dropper with a drop coming out.  Sunlight in the background with a blue sky.  Represents the natural source of vitamin D

Don’t get us wrong, it’s great to have some vitamin C in your system mopping up damaging free radicals – but it won’t do anything to prevent or lessen the effects of a cold. Instead, load up on vitamin D, because a study published in the Archives Of Internal Medicine reported that people with a vitamin D deficiency are more vulnerable to colds. You get it from sunshine and it’s found in some fish, but it’s worth popping a pill to get a decent daily dose.

6. Outrun the bugs

There’s more to exercise than beating your 10K PB or getting a six-pack. Regularly working out will also keep your immune system firing on all fronts. A US study found that, over the course of three months, people who did little or no exercise fell ill almost twice as often as those who exercised five times a week.

7. Sleep soundly

How To Prevent And Treat A Cold

As well as making you grumpy, getting less than seven hours of shut-eye a night makes you three times more likely to succumb to a cold than those getting eight hours or more, according to American research. If you spend just 8% of the time you are supposed to be sleeping awake, your risk of getting a cold increases fivefold.

Sleeping Better Tonight with Expert Advice may help provide more tips about how to ensure a good night’s rest. This is essential if you want to prevent or treat a cold.

8. Wrap up warm

Your mum lied – going outside with wet hair will not result in an instant cold. But being exposed to cold temperatures can reduce the effectiveness of your immune system. A study published in the International Journal Of Tuberculosis And Lung Disease concluded that any lowering of your core body temperature makes you more susceptible to infections.

9. Soup it up

Bone broth in a blue specked bowl with pieces of whole grain bread next to it.  Bone broth is excellent for a healthy immune system.

If you’ve already succumbed to the lurgy, all is not lost. The NHS says that there is “evidence to suggest that there may be some truth in the belief that eating chicken soup helps to relieve the symptoms of a cold”. It’s thought to be because it contains immune-boosting protein, keeps you hydrated and has anti-inflammatory properties.

Consider starting with a bone broth that has been proven to boost your immune system.

Written by Coach for Coach and legally licensed through the Matcha publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@getmatcha.com.

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