Antibiotics: They never help cold-like symptoms - One of the main reasons that people visit the doctor is for cold-like symptoms – which medicine calls upper respiratory tract infections or rhinosinus...

Treating colds and flu naturally - Take action at the first signs of a cold or flu as most of the research into remedies administer these early on to optimise the benefits.

Colds and flu: keeping well in the winter season - Most of the magic bullets to treat colds and flu - from antibiotics to zinc lozenges - are shots in the dark and not as effective as tried-and-tested...

Sponging up antihistamines - Allergies and asthma are indications that your body has increased its production of histamine a neurotransmitter that regulates water metabolism. This...

Summer colds and flu - There’s nothing worse than a summer cold, particularly when the weather is scorching. And although conventional medicine throws a load of mostly usele...

Colds and flu - Homeopathic remedies - Two antagonistic camps exist among homeopaths - those who only prescribe a single remedy for a particular case (and find anything else anathema), and...

Cough Remedies: Don’t give them to the under-2s - If you have children who’re younger than two years, don’t give them one of the popular cough or cold remedies.

Any sleepy alternatives to antihistamines? - In WDDTY vol 15 no 9 (page 3), you state that antihistamines are “often wrongly used to induce sleep”. Please explain what harm this will do. I find t...