Do you do anything to help boost yourself during or after illness?

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When going through a virus or heavy cold, anything like that, do you do anything in particular to help boost yourself? Is rest really the secret? Does the old fashioned Lucozade help?!

Sleep for a full day if possible.

Rest, plenty of fluids and try to up my vitamin C (usually in the form of orange juice, which is easy to drink even when I don't feel like eating much).

Fresh ginger boiled in a saucepan then strained, add honey and fresh lemon. Drink throughout the day.

Years ago Lucozade was a great tonic but the formula has changed now, possibly to do with sugar tax, and it is not the same! I sometimes take an over the counter tonic, Metatone, for a few days post illness - but I am old enough to remember the GP always prescribing a tonic when I was a child….