Cold treatment.

Taking cold medicines you can ease cold symptoms, although there's no one universal medicine for common cold. You may use decongestants and antihistamines to relief cold symptoms. They are produced in different forms.

Decongestants relief swelling in your nose and help to increase airflow through nasal passages. When your immune system attacks cold viruses your nose starts to produce mucus. You feel pressure in the nose and head. It leads to congestion in your nose and it becomes hard to breath. Decongestants help to reduce these symptoms and ease breathing. It's produced in forms of spray or pills. Don't use sprays for more than 3 days.

Another type of cold medicine are antihistamines. When you have a cold virus, certain cells in your sinuses and nasal passage produce chemical - histamine. Your nose starts to itch and swell. Antihistamine medicine prevents histamine from interacting with tissue in your nose and relief cold symptoms. Effective antihistamines are chlorpheniramine and brompheniramine. But they have one negative side effect - they make you want to sleep. So it's better to take them for the night. Allegra and claritin are relatively new types of antihistamines.

Make sure you use recently manufactured types of decongestants, since its older versions contain PPA (phenylpropanolamine) that may increase risk of stroke.