It is there to give men an idea of what childbirth is like. (Tongue very much in cheek)
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it's funny because I'm AFAB but NB with a husband and I'm the one who gets the man-flu.
Simple:
- Drink water
- I Clear the snot in the wash basin every 30 minutes
- I Don't drink the snot that comes in backwards from ~~your~~ my nose, no matter how lazy ~~you are~~ I am feeling
- spit it out in the wash basin
- this way ~~you~~ I don't get cough
- I don't take paracetamol or symptomatic relief medicine, instead keep 2-3 handkerchiefs to keep it clean
- Sinuses blocked and blowing nose is not enough, there is a medicine for it. But if you can, try some mace and nutmeg powder instead.
- Fever? Yes. I Sleep with it.
- Feeling weak, I take some ORS (the one with sugar in it)
And the most important part, don't go around coughing/snorting it at other people.
Sinuses blocked
There's 2 types of medicines for this.
1 will dry up your nose, essentially stopping the exit of pathogens via that vector. The other will convert blocked-nose to running nose.
The 2nd one is desirable, if you want it to actually get fixed. Of course, you will need to clean your nose more often, as a result.
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Eating a toe of raw garlic is about the only real remedy. Because it's slime covers the throat and some ingredients suport the body in defending. Lime blossom (? Lindenblüten) tea has a similiar effect but less potent and accelerates the metabolism (i.e. you get hot) instead.
I've heard garlic has anti bacterial properties, does this actually work? I'll eat a whole bulb of garlic, I don't care.
For me, it does. It's a case of woah and then i've read up the why. But really chew it good (nose will instantly get free too) and bite through it.
But still, it's only suporting; mileage may vary. And too much will get you an upset stomach.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6465033/
Found that quickly and even though it says the results may not be significant, I'm willing to eat a couple cloves of garlic with dinner. I'll let you know how I feel tomorrow morning.
this sounds alot like nimbus variant, covid than a cold. i had it recently and i had the symptoms you described, the painful sore throat, swallowing, the headaches though not a s severe as yours. bronchitis as well.
a cold causes alot of sneezing, and a mild sore throat at most, plus congestion in the nasal area. it almost never causes painful sore throat, and the coughing /bronchitis usually occurs after the fever, and when the cold resolves.
with covid you coughing/bronchitis right form the start of the fever. i couldnt swallow food or water for a few days, but i was hacking/coughing thick sputum for that long.
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Ikr I'm also suffering from this rn, but in my case throw on chills until I pop paracetamol and then I'm on a grill, bone aches like I got Raynaud's in my legs... Yup it's flu time!
I'll admit I'm a sample size of one with no counterfactual, but I started using Vicks First Defence about 4 years ago and in that time the few colds I've had were much briefer and milder than they were previously.
It's a kind of mega-mucus spray that performs the same mechanical action as snot to physically get the virus out of your body, only a lot more aggressively. It's briefly unpleasant to use but usually worth it. (I am not paid by Vicks)
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I find the over the counter cold meds at least handle the congestion pretty dang well. A few hot baths a day for sickness body pain/joint inflammation. I don't get headaches so the worst part is the throat for me usually. Cough syrup or the drops are useless I find.