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

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Eating a toe of raw garlic is about the only real remedy. Because it’s antiviral 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.

    • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      I’ve heard garlic has anti bacterial properties, does this actually work? I’ll eat a whole bulb of garlic, I don’t care.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        3 days ago

        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.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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        4 days ago

        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.