Yes cold flu - fever, seats, chils, headache, body aches - the whole shooting match - that's why I wasn't around yesterday.........I got out of bed in time for the school bus and stayed up long enough to injest copious quantities of liquids and chicken soup :)
I don't know about zinc, but I wiped out the bottle of vitamin C tablets and I'm too fuzzy headed to even consider getting in the car to go to the store.
i don't think there's a cureall, sounds like flu, you should just keep up the fluids and try to sleep and rest til it's gone. you poor thing.
Sleep, lots to drink, lots of chicken soup...