treating spring colds

natural solutions for common problems

THAT PESKY RHINOVIRUS KNOWS NO SEASON

This time of the year, my office is flooded with questions about treatments for those symptoms that we thought we had escaped once the dark days of winter had passed: achy body, scratchy throat, cough, runny nose, stuffy head and that rundown feeling that sends us off to bed.

Whatever the season, the common cold is an acute viral infection-most often a rhinovirus or influenza-characterized by the inflammation of any or all of the airways including the nose, throat, sinuses, larynx, trachea and bronchi. The onset of a cold is usually abrupt after a 1- to 3-day incubation period, starting with …