Caring for a Cold in College
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Russell Greenfield, M.D.
Greenfield Integrative Healthcare, PLLC and Greenfield Consulting, LLC
704-364-2658
info@bewelldoc.com
Russell H. Greenfield, M.D. is the Director of Greenfield Integrative Healthcare (GIH), PLLC and President of Greenfield Consulting (GC), LLC.
He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor / UCLA Medical Center and subsequently entered into an administrative / teaching fellowship at the same institution. He moved to Charlotte, NC and became involved in the emergency medicine residency program at Carolinas Medical Center, where he was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. He then became one of the first four physicians worldwide to graduate from the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine under the direct instruction of Dr. Andrew Weil.
Dr. Greenfield returned to NC to become the founding medical director of Carolinas Integrative Health, a freestanding center in Charlotte owned and operated by the Carolinas HealthCare System. He was a consultant to the Federation of State Medical Boards in the development of national model guidelines for the use of complementary and alternative therapies, and is co-author of Healthy Child, Whole Child (2nd ed. HarperCollins, 2009).
Dr. Greenfield maintains a private consultative medical practice in Charlotte, consults with media and industry on integrative health initiatives, and lectures widely. He is the editor of Alternative Medicine Alert, a monthly newsletter designed for healthcare professionals. He also directs the creation of wellness information for shoppers for Harris Teeter, Inc.
Professional affiliations include Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona College of Medicine.
In his spare time he likes nothing more than spending time with his wife and children. His personal interests are baseball and anything related to The Lord of the Rings.
Caring for a Cold in College
Dr. Russell Greenfield provides tips for taking care of that nasty cold when you are off at college.
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Dr. Russell Greenfield: You're away at school, wake up in your dorm room and you've come down with a cold. You know the symptoms, sneezing, running nose, congestion, may be a scratchy throat. Family isn't there to offer some nice hot chicken soup. So what can you do on your own to feel better soon?
Start with the basics, drink lots of clean water and do your best to get at least 7 hours of sleep each night, may be even the 30 minute cap-nap during the day. Remember, your body needs to be well hydrated and rested to fight off the virus causing your cold.
Conventional medications often used for cold symptoms offer very little benefit and sometimes cause harm. So stay away from antihistamines and decongestants for the most part.
You might explore the use of herbal remedies such as extracts of Echinacea, Andrographis, or Elderberry provided there is no contraindication to your using them. They may help shorten the duration and severity of cold symptoms and you only need to take them for 3-7 days.
Take care of yourselves at school and be well.
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