UNIQUE ANDERSON: Hello. My name is Unique Anderson and I'm a certified personal trainer. All right. In this clip, we're going to talk about how to prevent a chest cold or how to treat a chest cold. Again, there is no cure for a chest cold. So I could tell you to go to your doctor but they're going to tell you the same thing: go to Rite Aid and get yourself some NyQuil. But no, seriously, for you athletes out there, even for you work-at-home moms, whatever you need to just get--to break up the phlegm in your chest. Nine times out of ten, if you're having a chest cold, you're going to have some constriction in the chest. You're going to have heavy phlegm in the chest. One thing that you can do is get a humidifier and focus on breathing in that moisture to break up some of that phlegm. Also too, I have a remedy, an old-school remedy, that you can get some ginger tea. My grandmother taught me this. Ginger tea, you cut it up into thin slices, boil it down until it gets really, really like warm and dark, and then put one teaspoon of honey in it. I'm telling you, things will come up that you never thought existed. One thing too is also making sure to wash your hands, not just your hands but your arm, because what happens is that we deal with bacteria all the time. Especially, if you have kids, if you're on a train, people would just have so many different types of bacteria and germs on us. But one thing you can also do is get Vicks Vapor Rub. I usually do this when I used to have like a basketball game and I felt sick. I would wrap my--I would rub my chest really deep with the vapor rub. I will put a towel around and get into the steam and just allow that steam to come into my body and I can breathe out that phlegm because the thing is, is that a chest cold is not like a head cold. You're congested in your chest, so it will feel like a heaviness or a tightness in your chest. One thing that you want to do though is just make sure that you wash your hands, practice proper hygiene, and also focus on eating the right things, fruits and vegetables. I mean, I know you hear this a hundred times. Vitamin C, yeah, it does work if you use it when you don't need it. What we do is that we tend to like just egg up on vitamin C the day of and then like it's not working, because you have it already. You want to do it like two weeks, three weeks, a month, two months to have it in your system. Also, if you're sickand you can't shake the chest cold, a great drink to have is Gatorade. You know what? You just don't only use it for when you're on the court or when you're on the field but you can use it when you're at home because it's a liquid carb. You won't have gastric emptying, meaning that it won't be hard in your stomach and it'd still give you that energy that you need to just kind of make it through the day. Please, stay safe, stay strong, stay away from the people that have the colds.
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