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Flu fact vs. fiction

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    Breaking down common cold myths

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-- -- We -- -- flu and cold season but there are a lot of the remedying rumors out there about.

What helps you heal faster and we uncovered limits now we're tackling holds.

Doctor Mark Siegel from the medical aid team -- that acts and vs the fiction thank you for doing morning the morning good morning -- to.

The first -- not antibiotics we've heard they help.

In fighting a cold is that true.

That is a -- Okay now here's why antibiotics only help you against bacteria.

Bacteria -- one thing viruses or something else.

This is viral season really we're seeing the flu which is a virus the common cold is a virus the -- virus which is in your stomach these are viruses.

Antibiotics have no affect against them whatsoever now when you have a virus like the flu you couldn't get a bacteria to a strep throat.

Or sinus infection then you use antibiotics and then you use them.

I think and what about something that -- always heard from your grandma chicken noodle sit.

Or your mother -- chicken did it eat some chicken suit help critical and that's a fact.

I love chicken soup chicken soup is an anti inflammatory and it's a decongestant.

It warms up your throat when you're sick.

It actually give you some fluids that you need.

Chicken soup is a home run grandma was right and that's -- you feel like eating anyway absolutely vitamin C -- -- fact.

Vitamin C is a myth vitamin C everyone thinks vitamin C.

Is all you need for the coming cold -- truth that is it may actually decrease the risk of you getting the common cold.

But once you have that it won't make you better studies have not shown that but one -- I think is under known for this is vitamin.

Vitamin.

-- glass of milk with your check and it'll say it's okay not exactly.

-- think they fact or fiction zinc is a fact -- actually.

Decreases the viruses the flu in the cold from lodging in your throat from -- your nose so it can decrease your risk of getting sick and they can.

Get you fast better.

Faster -- -- -- you get better faster but the problem with.

Zinc is that if you give your nausea and some GI's and and -- -- -- -- -- as it tablet form are evident that tablet form they have been in the missed most of the time people get it in the spread that this -- -- to -- those -- and finally humanity.

Factor fiction fact and humidity is really important for colds -- bit of fires are important.

His wife.

-- the nasal members are supposed to be moist in the winter they get dried out they get dried out -- and colds -- If you can get the humidity back you can prevent the colds from coming -- in the first place and you get better fast.

All right thank you -- not through the day at separating fact from fiction where there thank you.

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