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What helps you when ill? Need some tips! (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by lustrum to c/[email protected]

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I'm full of cold or flu. Taken some paraceptamol to reduce the fever. What do you like to do to feel better even for a short period of time. Need some tips! Feeling so crap

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought this was an early misconception of the pandemic and had since been debunked?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34196258/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7289730/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7287029/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

My best reading of the data is that it could make things negligibly worse. I'd say avoid it unless you feel your symptoms really warrant it, and if so then don't really worry about it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, you might be right, I'm too lazy to search it right now tho