No cure so you gotta rest. Nose is stuffed so you gotta mouth breathe. Throat is dry from mouth breathing. Dry throat makes it painful to swallow. Pain keeps you from sleeping and recovering. Lack of sleep leads to worse symptoms like piercing headaches. Need to rest to get rid of the headaches. Headache and swallowing is too painful to rest properly. Lack of rest perpetuates headaches, nose congestion, dry throat, painful swallowing.
What is this BS
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)
I usually try to take on sicknesses as natural as possible so I’ve never come across this first defence stuff but it does look promising from what I’m seeing, I really only get colds (starting to think what I have no isn’t a cold now though because it’s been kinda severe) once every 4 or 5 years but I’ll give it a shot next time if I remember.
I think it’s good for people who don’t like taking drugs because technically it’s not a drug; its mode of action doesn’t rely on altering your body chemistry. It’s more like a powerful nose flush.