Drink plenty of fluids and take some paracetamol.
This is the age old advice from doctors for getting through the flu, but it might not be as effective as we previously thought.
Not the drinking of fluids part – as far as we know this is true and, if you’re ill, you should probably continue to lap up that water.
But painkillers aren’t going to help you one jot, according to a new study by researchers in New Zealand.
They compared the symptoms of 80 people with the flu, with… Read the full story