Brush teeth with whitening tooth paste during your illness. Cold-Eze
sugar free zinc lozenges (Walmart.) Gargle with hot chicken broth, and
make a vapor tent over your cup and inhale chicken broth vapors. Avoid
at all costs fruit juices i.e. any and all carbs. You can also gargle
with a 50/50 mixture of water and that stuff in the dark brown bottle
:-) Ibuprofen to reduce inflammation.