[header] How to become better when you are sick [title] Stay home from work or school. [step] Going out and having a normal day will usually make you sicker. It also exposes those around you to illness. 
Stay home and take care of yourself so that you can go out again soon. Keep in mind that you're usually at your most contagious at the beginning of an illness-for a cold, this means the first three days, possibly four or five.