First if you have a chest cold your lower respiratory is infected and when you struggle with a chest cold it can be really hard to heal. Sometimes chest colds could even cause pneumonia.

Chest Cold Symptoms:

- mild fever
- tightening of chest
- dry cough

More symptoms can develop over time but those are the common ones that usually start right away.

Treatment for when you have the chest cold:

- steam vaporizes and heaters
- flu and cold medications, codeine plus paracetamol
- antibiotics
- 8 glasses of water every day

If you treat a chest cold it usually heals up within a week. Visit your doctor before you start treatment to confirm that it is a chest cold. If you do not get treatment for the chest cold it cause you to be hospitalized depending on how severe the case is.