Guapura 101: Casera Cold Cures

If you’re like me, then you’ve already fought off a few colds this winter season — perhaps you may have even succumbed to them. So, I wanted to offer up a few tips that work for me, and also see whether anyone out there has any I haven’t heard of.

There are the classics:

• Washing your hands often.
• Vitamin C — in orange, juice, fizz or tablet form (I take tablets or fizz because I don’t like juice or the trouble of cutting oranges).
• Gargling once you get that tingly throat with salt water (preferably warm).
• Sucking on a lemon for your throat (Thanks for this suggestion Catherine).
• Drinking lime juice for your throat (I also do this and it seems to work well).
• Keeping warm (even though I always go out with my hair wet).
• Eating caldo or soup when you being to feel ill (just did the trick last week for me!)

A few other suggestions:

• Don’t cough/sneeze into your hands to avoid passing germs.
• Don’t touch your face, again, to avoid passing germs.
• Drink lots of fluids.
• Hydrate.
• Exercise.
• Eat yogurt and eat dark, leafy greens.
• Don’t smoke, apparently smokers get more and more severe colds.
• Relax.
• Sleep.
• Cut alcohol consumption.

What’s your secret?