First, let’s bust a massive myth. You’ve probably heard that orange juice is the holy grail of sick mornings. Wrong. That acidic hurricane hitting your raw throat is like throwing a rave in a library. It stings. It burns. And while a tiny bit of vitamin C might help marginally, chugging a gallon of OJ won’t cure your cold—it’ll just give you weird, neon-yellow pee and a cranky stomach. Save the citrus for when you can actually taste it.
Also, anyone who tells you to eat cereal while sick is a fraud. Those crunchy little flakes turn into soggy cardboard bricks in your mouth, and milk makes your phlegm go from "annoying" to "industrial-grade sludge." Trust me, you don’t want that.
