Cold, Flu & Cough

While colds, coughs and the flu share many symptoms, it’s challenging to tell them apart. Our cold, cough and flu articles discuss the differences, treatments and remedies, related illnesses like strep throat, ways to boost your immune system, and more.

Top 14 Natural Flu Remedies, Including Best Foods

Each season, the flu affects about 8 percent of the United States population, on average. Those numbers may be even higher for asymptomatic people, leading many to search for natural flu remedies (which often double ...

How to Boost Your Immune System — Top 26 Boosters

If you are wondering how to boost your immune system, be advised that it doesn't necessarily happen over night. It's a matter of strengthening your immune response with lifestyle changes and the use of immune-boosting ...

Natural Cold Remedies for Fast Relief (& Prevention)

You can get a cold any time of year, but common cold season really ramps up when the weather starts to turn cool. And the thing about the common cold is that it is, well, ...

How to Get Rid of a Fever (Including How to Break One)

We’ve all been there — sick in bed, simultaneously feeling hot and cold with a high fever. All we want to do is feel better if only this darn fever would break. That naturally leads to ...

12 Natural Sore Throat Remedies for Fast Relief

A sore throat can come on at any time, and it's caused by a number of reasons. Thankfully, there are natural sore throat remedies that you can use at home and don't require an antibiotic ...

Flu Brain: Here’s What the Virus Does to Your Central Nervous System

Flu brain is a thing. And this season especially, everyone's trying to avoid it. And no, you aren't imagining it. People really are throwing you side-eye when you cough, sneeze or sniffle in public. Nobody ...

7 Best Home Remedies for Cough

Coughing is a common reaction to the respiratory system trying to expel harmful microbes, dust or irritants from the body. It's a natural reflex that protects your lungs, but as you know, it can be ...

7 Natural Treatments to Ease Lymphangitis Symptoms

Do you have swollen and tender red streaks that start at an opening in the skin and radiate to the armpit or groin? If so, you may be suffering from lymphangitis, a bacterial infection that ...

Sinus Infection: Signs & Symptoms + 10 Natural Remedies

About 35 million Americans suffer from a sinus infection or sinusitis every year. (1) Sinusitis is an inflammation, or swelling, of the tissue lining the sinuses that leads to an infection. It can result in mucus ...

16 Soothing Strep Throat Home Remedies

Strep throat can be a painful and frustrating respiratory condition, making it hard to swallow, eat and sleep. Although the conventional treatment for strep throat is antibiotics, research shows that they only reduce the length of ...