Is your stuffy nose stopping you from sleeping? Or maybe a cough is keeping you up at night?
If so, this no longer has to be the case…
After analysing over 260,000 Google searches from Brits looking up various cold symptoms and their lack of sleep, memoryfoampillows.co.uk have uncovered the six most common cold queries, before revealing 18 tips to overcome them and get a good night’s sleep…
- Sleeping with a cough(123,120 Google Searches per year)
Top tips to overcome:
- Sleep with your head elevated using extra pillows to stop mucus gathering in your throat, reducing how much you cough.
- Take soothing cough medicine or a throat lozenge right before bed, as this can stop the cough while you try to get to sleep.
- Keep tissues, medicine and a glass of water beside your bed so that you don’t have to get up in the night for supplies.
- Sleeping with a blocked or stuffy nose(62,280 Google Searches per year)
Top tips to overcome:
- Keep an aromatherapy oil diffuser in your bedroom, and use a eucalyptus one as it has an anti-inflammatory effect.
- Don’t blow your nose, as this can irritate your nasal passages – try dabbing with tissue instead.
- Avoid any caffeine and alcohol after lunch, as these can dehydrate your body.
- Sleeping with a cold(30,360 Google Searches per year)
Top tips to overcome:
- Take a hot shower before bed to help loosen up phlegm, reduce congestion and help you breathe easier.
- Use a vapour rub which include menthol ingredients to make it easier for you to breathe.
- Wrap up warm with wool or fleece blankets to relieve muscle aches.
- Sleeping with a sore throat(27,600 Google Searches per year)
Top tips to overcome:
- Before bed, drink hot tea with honey and lemon to soothe your throat before sleeping, and give your immune system a boost.
- Invest in a humidifier to add moisture to your bedroom’s air, as dry air can irritate your sore throat.
- Gargle salt water to help clear any phlegm from the back of your throat.
- Sleeping with a headache (13,560 Google Searches per year)
Top tips to overcome:
- Drink lots of water throughout the day, as dehydration is more likely to lead to further headaches.
- Keep your phone and laptop out of the bedroom, as the blue light emitted from your devices can keep you awake for longer.
- When lying in bed, place a cool, damp towel over your forehead to help dull the pain of a headache before you go to sleep.
- Sleeping with a runny nose (5,160 Google Searches per year)
Top tips to overcome:
- Eat a spicy dinner containing capsaicin, a compound found in chilli peppers, as this which reduce your runny nose.
- Before bed, inhale steam using a bowl of boiling water and a towel placed over the back of your head. This will loosen the mucus in your nasal passages.
- Try a nasal rinse before you go to sleep to wash away the mucus built up in your nose. Combine a small amount of salt and bicarbonate of soda in boiling water, then allow the solution to cool. Rinse your nose with the solution a few times.
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