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Hit me with your cold cure tips!

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Cloud44 · 14/02/2024 18:07

Can tell the lurgy is about to get me, loads of colleagues have got it this week and I’ve felt knackered today, achy, head ache… please tell me your tips to help it go away quickly?!

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Cloud44 · 15/02/2024 08:48

Feeling sorry for myself this morning, not feeling that great , stupid lurgy!

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BlueBellsArePretty · 14/02/2024 19:28

Neti pot and oregano capsules

FrenchBoule · 14/02/2024 19:25

Belvoir ginger cordial with hot water is very warming

AmaryllisChorus · 14/02/2024 19:24

Home made chicken soup with either barley or egg noodles, leeks, carrots, sweetcorn and peas. If you are veggie/vegan, make green soup with all green veg you can imagine and vegan pesto with chilli flakes added.

Very hot bath and wash your hair. Don't know why but hair wash is essential. Dry hair, obv.

Wrap up in PJs, bedsocks, fleece dressing gown. Put spare PJs by bed in case of a night sweat.

Make hot water bottles and put in bed, at feet and chest height.

Take paracetamol and ibuprofen if actually feeling ill. If you have a blocked nose, use a facial steamer. If coughing, put menthol rub on chest, throat and soles of feet.

Take a hot lemon, honey, fresh or dried ginger, clove and tumeric hot toddy to bed. Add whisky if you want. Drink it and go to sleep early.

When you wake up, shower and a berocca or fizzy vitamin C, more painkillers and fresh coffee.

OMGitsnotgood · 14/02/2024 19:24

We swear by high dose vitamin C at the first suspicion of an incoming cold, continued til better. Lots of water & paracetamol.

Mammma91 · 14/02/2024 19:22

I swear by the infants calpol plug in. It’s a smell of Vapor rub and it fills the room, I use it an hour before bed and an hour in the middle of the night when I evidently wake up feeling sorry for myself. That and lots of fluids and rest. DS and DH have just recovered and I have (so far!) narrowly avoided it!

Schiehallion · 14/02/2024 19:19

Just before bedtime make up a Lemsip with boiling water then add some honey and a dram of whisky. You'll sleep like a log.

shellyleppard · 14/02/2024 19:16

Cloud 44 my sons both had the flu for a week each.....i dodged it. No idea how 😂😂

dumpling123 · 14/02/2024 19:09

Rub lots of Vicks vaporub into the soles of your feet, put on some cosy socks and into bed to sleep it off. The Vicks really helps but I have absolutely no idea how or why!

AliceMcK · 14/02/2024 18:56

As someone who gets the lurgy regularly due to being immune compromised heres what I do…

If you can sleep sleep sleep
fill up on any and all drugs you can take ( I know I will get shot down but I always take more than the box says. Not a lot but as soon as I feel them wearing off I too up, I don’t wait the 4-6hours)
Honey in hot and cold drinks, what ever helps you hydrate.
i don’t take extra vitamins, the reason I get ill so much is because my immune system attacks my body so I don’t feed it with immune boosting foods or vitamins.
Fresh air, ventilate your room or house as much as possible, old germs out fresh air in.
shower as much as you can to wash away germs.

LeggyLinda · 14/02/2024 18:54

effoffwind · 14/02/2024 18:43

Well thanks very much ladies

I'm now sat naked covered in the best Stork margarine
Staring at a glass of 2 squeezed lemons , wondering how I'll get into bed in this state

Don't believe anything you read on the internet 😩

😂
But I don’t recall anyone saying you had to be naked.

But back to the topic - A heavy dose of vitamin C usually helps for me especially if it is early stages. I have been known to eat those big tablets you’re supposed to dissolve in water raw.
Works for me more often than not. But, I admit, it may be psychological at this stage.

Hatty65 · 14/02/2024 18:49

Make a flu bomb. It's hideous, but does do you good.

1 tsp of turmeric, ginger, garlic, cayenne pepper. (1tsp of each)
2 tsp of runny honey
1 tbsp of lemon juice

Top up with boiling water - or put in a cup of hot tea, if you prefer. No milk

It's what I dose the family with when they are poorly. Genuinely, a lot of those spices are good for inflammation, so help with clearing your nasal passages, etc.

Cloud44 · 14/02/2024 18:48

There seems to be so many bugs around this time of year which are a pain!

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OldGreyBoots · 14/02/2024 18:48

The only thing that helps me is water, loads and loads of it - I'm usually a bit rubbish at staying hydrated but I make sure to do it when I have a cold! Seems to help stop your nose from getting quite so blocked Flowers

Cloud44 · 14/02/2024 18:48

Ive taken echinacea today and Vicks first defence spray, I’m hoping it kicks in and saves the day!

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canttellyouwhereorwhatido · 14/02/2024 18:46

That awful awful concoction called 'night nurse ' .. so unbelievably foul it works like a barometer for how ill I actually am ..

If I can bring myself to drink it then I need it .. if I can't then I'm not that bad !

shellyleppard · 14/02/2024 18:46

Op..... vitamin c, zinc and echinacea cold remedy at the first sign of the sniffles...... stock up on tissue's and food in case you get really bad x

Stringagal · 14/02/2024 18:45

Echinacea! The first sign of a sniffle and I’m double dropping them.

Punxsatawnyphil · 14/02/2024 18:44

Drugs and sleep. Hot drinks, vitamin C.

effoffwind · 14/02/2024 18:43

Well thanks very much ladies

I'm now sat naked covered in the best Stork margarine
Staring at a glass of 2 squeezed lemons , wondering how I'll get into bed in this state

Don't believe anything you read on the internet 😩

JemimaTab · 14/02/2024 18:42

I’ve always found Beechams powders (the type that come in a little envelope) the best thing for treating cold symptoms. And Pulmo Bailly for a cough (it tastes foul, like a proper old fashioned medicine, but it does work).

Cloud44 · 14/02/2024 18:37

Lol @EcstaticMarmalade if nothing else this post is actually making me chuckle a little!!

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takealettermsjones · 14/02/2024 18:37

EcstaticMarmalade · 14/02/2024 18:36

I should have also said knock back the lemon juice.

I was wondering what you do with the lemon juice!! 😂😂
This thread is great already

EcstaticMarmalade · 14/02/2024 18:36

EcstaticMarmalade · 14/02/2024 18:35

Squeeze two lemons into a glass and then immediately have a nap.

I should have also said knock back the lemon juice.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 14/02/2024 18:36

LeggyLinda · 14/02/2024 18:33

Sorry!!!!
I misread. I thought it said cold sore tips.
I’m ashamed of myself.

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Me too😁

I was just about to tell her to put neat tea tree oil on it.