The Shock Doctrine

The incubation treatment of an infection or a cold ranges typically between 3 to 5 days after treatment is started. Before the treatment, the most common symptom that everyone knows about is the fever that, even at extremely low temperature, sets in as a mild yet very distinct human feeling, perhaps best described as a little nexus of small symptoms all bunched together: just a little headache, just a little eye sore, just a little bone pain, etc.

With that said, it is possible to reduce the time between the very start of the fever and the end of the cold, or, at the very least, to make the period a completely breeze without any symptoms at all. If the individual is very self aware and feels the fever coming early on, then medication can be started very early on, typically starting with the cold buddies which will no more or less surprise whatever infection is looming and reduce its outburst by a whole lot. Inversely, waiting for a fever and only then starting medication, lays out a lot of upcoming days of suffering!

The first problem with this technique is that children are typically unaware until they learn from experience such that it cannot be applied to children at all since they wouldn't really know what a fever is. The other problem is that adults tend to want to "roughen things out" (for example, thinking that Vodka and good sleep will fix things) but in reality once a fever is looming, you can bet that the fever will break out sooner or later and it will go up to without any treatment guaranteed. Microbes and bugs do not change their minds about things and suddenly just switch off. . .

The doctrine also works for minor lung inflammations (ie: running in the cold while breathing though the mouth) that can also be hit early on with coughing drugs. Very similar to colds, lung inflammations also do not "back off" - in case the inflammation is looming then the bug will try to attack the whole respiratory system and even more effectively than a cold, in a matter of half-a-day, an individual can go from mild unease in the lungs to full-on pain while coughing. The usual lung inflammation treatment can be carried out and similar to colds, the treatment also ranges from 3 to 5 days, depending when the treatment is started.

This trick will shave 1 or 2 days off the whole illness cycle - however, one should complete the treatment till the end regardless if no symptoms are felt in order to follow the drug's designed usage pattern and to ensure that the condition does not return. Either way, if medication starts when the fever is just about to break out, the whole illness cycle will be mostly unfelt.