Here is what to do when you get the cold onset signal.
Get a bottle of hydrogen peroxide (3%) from your local pharmacy.
Tilt your head to one side and fill one ear canal with hydrogen peroxide using an eye dropper. Fill the ear canal completely. This assumes you do not have a ruptured ear drum!
Within one to two minutes you will notice bubbling in the ear. This indicates that the peroxide has found something that should not be there. Let the peroxide stay in the ear until it stops bubbling. If the bubbling has not stopped after five minutes, drain out the peroxide and refill the ear with fresh peroxide. When the bubbling has stopped, drain out the ear.
Repeat the procedure on the other ear.
That’s all there is to it! It is important to perform this procedure at the earliest signal of cold onset. If this procedure is done in a timely fashion, the symptoms that signaled the cold onset will subside within a few hours and you will not come down with a cold. As an added bonus, the hydrogen peroxide dissolves ear wax and will leave your ears free of wax and free of disease causing pathogens.
Thanks for the good tip. Peroxide is good to have on hand.
Hydrogen peroxide in the ear will do nothing for flu virus in your other regions. However, it is good as you say for cleaning the ears not more than once a month because it will dry the ear canal if done too often.
I’d say if you feel you are coming down with a Big Flu, get someone to gather clear liquids for you and stay away from society.
What about peroxide as a throat gargle and also to spray up the nostrils too?
I do this when a sore throat begins indicating infection has occurred. It either stops it or reduces its intensity. Handwashing is good but does nothing to stop airborne infected droplets.