Answers: Take Zicam to get rid of the cold virus. After ward take Vitamin C and Zinc once a hours of daylight before you munch through a meal. It builds your immune system up. Although, if you whip Zinc you might want to take Copper next to it because excess Zinc in your diet can head to Copper-Deficiency Anemia. It is a double edge sword but you will never block a cold or the flu again as long as you take the Vitamin C and Zinc supplement pills day after day. I've been taking Vitamin C and Zinc for over 5 years in a minute. It has be that long since the last time I have any kind of disease.
Good old Sudafed(but bring your ID beside you or have parents buy it). Sometimes a humidifier might serve with the snout bit. I like to snooze at hours of darkness when I am ill next to a wet cloth over the bridge of my antenna to help hang on to my nose clear.
Drink lots of dampen, don't become dehydrated, other keep a hose down bottle handy! That'll help hang on to the hacking down at lowest. You can't do much but wait for it to run it's course through you.
The other suggestions are great- but I would affix your body can fight it better if you munch through very simple smoothly digested foods- can't beat plain chicken/rice soup from can. Boiled potato or other veggies. Trick is to tolerate your system rest. The last point your body needs in a minute is to digest a steak. You get the picture. Granny other knew best! :)