All I do is take vitamin C drops steadily throughout the day, and drink plenty of water...and get a lot more sleep. I've always recovered fast using this strategy.

A pharmacist friend of mine always pushed taking Echinacea if your starting to feel something coming on, about 800mg daily till your better. Don't just take it daily but only when your feeling pre symptoms starting.

It's very safe and just helps boost your white blood cell count to fight off infections.

Zinc is my first choice. I heard on 20/20 that C when you are sick can worsen the symptoms, and or make the cold last longer.

i rarely get sick, and i never take C, or anything really... HOWEVER, even when im not going to the gym regularly i have a rule for myself. if i get is that is... if it is a stoumache flu or something in my stoumach... then all you can do is drink lots of water and rest... chicken soup is good, with bread to absorb extra stoumach acid so you dont puke all over the place.

if it is a head cold (sinus, fever, runny nose etc..) i ALWAYS make myself either hit the gym or do some kinda cardio fairly intense for about 20-30mins, i always feel better afterwords, i think building up a sweat raises your body tempurature to help burn off whatever may be getting you sick. the reason you feel hot when your sick is because your body heats up naturally (high tempuratures) to burn off the illness, so if you can do that for yourself rather then wait for your body to do it automatically, then you can catch it that much earlier.

Thanks, I have been running on the treadmill 30+ mins a day and I defintely feel better than sitting around...

Interesting about the C causing a cold to continue longer.