Everyone deals with colds in different ways and here are a few things you might want to use to make it through.
I’ll kick start this with a classic: eat some soup. Honestly nothing is more healing. I’m partial to Heinz tomato soup myself. Pick your favourite tinned soup (or if you’re feeling fancy, you could make some from scratch) get a loaf of bread, butter up a few slices and once you’ve polished it off, I promise you’ll feel at least a little better.
If soup isn’t your thing, then let yourself be a little lazy and make some student classics – pesto pasta, a pizza, some fajitas. I find copious amounts of carbs make me feel better in these kinds of situations. And trust me, your flatmates will not be judging, especially since they’ll probably be suffering alongside you.
When it comes to drinks that chase off the dreaded freshers flu tea is always a good shout. But Berocca or Lemsip (with a little honey so it’s palatable) are also pretty good choices. Also - at the risk of sounding like my mother - drink water. Seriously flush that cold out of you!
Apart from food I’ve got to recommend buying one of those massive tubs of multivitamins from Boots, they’ll get you through fresher’s flu. If you’re struggling to get in your five a day, take one of these and your body will hate you a little less.
Get yourself a box of tissues, some Strepsils and some cold and flu tablets and you’ll be right as rain before you know it.