Eli5 : how does cold medicine work? It alleviates symptoms so well and quickly, but doesn’t “cure” and I don’t understand how or why.
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The symptoms of a cold are due to inflammation caused by your body’s immune response to a viral infection. Cold medicine diminishes this primary (general) immune response, allowing you to feel symptom relief while your secondary (specific) immune response does it’s thing to kill the virus.
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