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Feed a cold and starve a fever: What advice should you be offering?
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Feed a cold and starve a fever: What advice should you be offering?
Wednesday 9 May 2018, 11:07 AM
Hot lemon and ginger
For the otherwise well adult who does not need antibiotics for their cold and (possibly) flu symptoms, what advice can you reasonably offer beyond hot lemon and a pain reliever?
The cold is a common condition characterised by sore throat, rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, cough, sneeze, headache and malaise. Most healthy adults get, on , Pharmaceutical grade remedies
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