Tips and advice on enduring influensa

Honey, syrups, and citrus greatly helps. The former two are great for creating productive coughs. Coighing is a good thing and helps to clear air passages and keep mucus from clogging your lungs.

Drink plenty of water. Fluids help to cleanse the body of sickness.

Don't try to force yourself to go to work. If you have the flu, STAY HOME and recover. Aside from the obvious need to recuperate you also run the risk of spreading the disease.

Drink plenty of teas as well. Hot, sugarless tea helps to keep mucus from clogging air passages as well.

So many ridiculous old-wives tales & superstition in this thread... WOW

What the hell is #3 supposed to do? Keep you from seeing yourself in a mirror? LoL

The only thing you can do is eat a healthy diet and wash your hands. Also the Flu vaccination helps, despite all the idiotic rhetoric/conspiracy Bullshit

No, I haven't seen any ridiculous old-wives tales or superstition. Mind specifying what you're referring to?
As for #3, well, why don't you try it and see for yourself? Next time you've got a serious flu.

Flu vaccination helps preventing it, to a degree, but has no positive effect on a flu in progress, on the contrary.
Washing your hands is also fairly irrelevant. The crucial part is not to pick your nose, scratch your eyes or handle food or eat with unwashed hands. But all that is also only for preventive purpose.

As usual, Mouse is the voice of reason...

regular sex (at least 3 times a week but not more than 5 with the same partner) does actually boost the immune system, the problem with getting yourself all revved up when you have something like a heavy cold or the flu is you can force the virus into the muscles and damage them so your supposed to abstain from such activities when your ill...

as to the rest of it, take anti hystamines along with brufen and paracetamol aids your body in fighting things off whilst not making you too ill to move, things like lemsip and menthol crystals in a diffuser also help a lot as does vitamin c (orange juice) since your body starts burning through that stuff to fight the infection giving it a boost helps tremendously 

on top of that regular consumption of garlic aids with fighting off the infection and getting rid of it as does chicken soup (preferably broth or freshly made from a carcass) often thickened with an egg and sweetcorn (its the enzymes) as does regular consumption of god food (beetroot, preferably fresh) but the number one thing that helps prevent getting such illnesses is no faddy eating or diets

for me the illnesses are terrible though and I always have a ready supply of ice cream, chocolate, chilli and beer to help me get though it because despite the notion that it doesnt help after several decades of treating myself i'm still hear and often get over such minor trials far faster than the average idiot on the street/