10 Things I do to care for myself when I get a cold

1.  Don’t get it.  My method:

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The following are what to do when stressed, over busy, not sleeping and hanging out with 85 high school students

(and I won’t even link to any new-age, wacky herbal, non-scientific, folk lore sites; each of these is listed somewhere in WebMD‘s list):

2. Fluids (personally, I like lemon-ginger-honey tea)

3. Tylenol

4. Rest

5. A warm shower/aromatic steam (I like tea tree oil) will help with decongesting nasal passages

6. Switch up the fluids to chicken broth (home made, of course), red pepper flakes, ginger and tons of garlic.

7. Horseradish – I wouldn’t normally recommend this, nor have I used it, but I’m about to dig up the plant (it has finally frosted) and see what the harvest looks like.  I know horseradish is a good decongestant.

8. snuggle a cat, by a fire

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or a heating vent

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10. with a good book

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11. or knitting

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12. or Dude. (But, you know, not you, you only get to number 11.)

p.s. I like it cold in the house, so he’s like a cat – except with a nice comfy seat, and he doesn’t try to hold the yarn.

 

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