Here's how to stop your cold from getting worse
Photo: Roos Koole/Getty Images Over the weekend I came down with a pretty nasty cold: body aches, congestion, coughing, fatigue, the whole thing. I started feeling sick on Friday, and spent most of Saturday horizontal, drinking water and tea and eating soup like I knew I was supposed to. On Sunday I felt a little better, and I assumed things would improve from there, but on Monday, I felt like shit again, which surprised me, like it surprises me every time I get a cold.
According to Barry Grossman, an internist at the NYU Langone Tisch Center, many people “make some mistakes” when it comes to dealing with the common cold — and that these mistakes can even prolong your symptoms.The first is that we stop hydrating at the first sign of improvement. “As soon as patients get sick, they’re drinking a lot of tea, but as soon as they start feeling better, they stop, and go back to their usual ways,” Grossman says.
So common is this particular dependency that Grossman tells me it was covered in his medical school class on addiction. “The professor walked in on the first day and says ‘Raise your hand if you have Afrin in your book bag,’” says Grossman. “I looked at him and I thought, this guy’s insane. But I looked around the classroom, and out of 200 people, half of them raised their hands.” I, too, love Afrin.
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