No cure so you gotta rest. Nose is stuffed so you gotta mouth breathe. Throat is dry from mouth breathing. Dry throat makes it painful to swallow. Pain keeps you from sleeping and recovering. Lack of sleep leads to worse symptoms like piercing headaches. Need to rest to get rid of the headaches. Headache and swallowing is too painful to rest properly. Lack of rest perpetuates headaches, nose congestion, dry throat, painful swallowing.

What is this BS

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Sorry, if you want to make a claim contrary to well established and generally accepted medical advice then you’ll need much better evidence.

    The study you linked has a pathetically small scale of 120 individuals, is not randomised or placebo-controlled. Classic P-hacking. The result literally states that a better study is required.

    This meta study, which includes the one you linked, concludes that there is no effect on the duration of an infection.

    Out of the 1466 references found, 25 RCTs were included. There were two studies assessing mean fever clearance time, and five studies examining the duration of symptoms associated with the illness studied. No statistically significant differences were found when pooling the results of the different studies.

    Your advice is anything but “sound”. The only sensible advice is to follow the advice of your health care professional, and we both know what that will be.