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To ask for your best cough and cold remedies

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IdaBattersea · 30/12/2019 05:19

Day 5 and still got a hacking cough (much worse at night) and now it’s moved to my sinuses and feel worse rather than better. Got to work the next two days and supposed to be out with friends who are over from overseas tonight. DH is in the spare room for the 3rd night.

Been taking paracetamol, halls soothers and hot toddy. Anything else? Feeling fed up.

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IdaBattersea · 30/12/2019 05:20

No idea how I created the vote that wasn’t supposed to happen...

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Vafanculo · 30/12/2019 05:26

There are tablets you can get which I've only found in either Poundland or Wilkos (I've tried pharmacies but no luck).

The one in the pound shop is made by a company called Galpharm

It's in a green and grey box.

The one from Wilkos is in a white and orange box.

The ingredients are:
Paracetamol, Phenylephrine, Guaifenisin

It's the last ingredient that clears your lungs. The Phenylephrine clears your sinuses.

I have NO idea why pharmacies don't have the same. I have asthma, and they can actually manage to stave off a chest infection. Obviously the paracetamol works for the aches and pains and temp too.

Vafanculo · 30/12/2019 05:27

The one from Poundland is called something like Cold and Flu Max.

The one from Wilko's is called 'Flu max all-in-one chesty cough and cold tablets'

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IdaBattersea · 30/12/2019 05:29

Thank you will buy those first thing.

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Vafanculo · 30/12/2019 05:30

I've googled the Guaifenisin before and it's usually found in cough medicines apparently. Believe me, I've bought as many of these I can buy when they're in stock. They're brilliant.

Vafanculo · 30/12/2019 05:32

They're brilliant. Being an asthmatic, my lungs can get bad really quickly, but these are the business!

Vafanculo · 30/12/2019 05:36

You'll be coughing up gunk as they seem to just clear your lungs out. Hope you can get them. They're not always in stock as anytime I'm in there I look for them.

ayvasili · 30/12/2019 06:30

I have a tomato soup recipe that works wonders :) I use a packet of pummaro (or a tin of roughly chopped tomatoes) tbs of oregano, two cloves of garlic (roughly chopped) tbs of honey, lemon juice and either a tsp of dried chili or as much hot sauce as you can stand. It will get all the juices flowing and really helps clear the chest :)

joggingon · 30/12/2019 06:56

Fresh ginger tea. Optional extras. Honey. Lemon. Whiskey

Trafalger · 30/12/2019 06:57

In desperation last week for my toddler who couldn't sleep her cough was so bad I did the old vicks on he feet. It worked a miracle! OH wasnt convinced as he said it had never worked on him but she went from coughing every 20 seconds to asleep in less than 10 minutes and stayed asleep all night.

Mummadeeze · 30/12/2019 08:04

Lemsip type hot drinks with something in to not make you drowsy are a real pick me up.

BlaueLagune · 30/12/2019 08:12

Chicken soup with loads of garlic in it really does help.

Also Sambucol - available from health food shops including Holland & Barrett.

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IdaBattersea · 30/12/2019 14:05

Vafanculo I got hold of that stuff in Superdrug their own brand and I can feel it helping my chest thank you. That and back to back halls soothers.

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MrsMonkeyBear · 30/12/2019 14:09

I always swear by Day and Night nurse. They are OTC in a pharmacy. I always have a stash of them in the house.

TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 · 30/12/2019 14:11

Many many mugs of hot ribs a or verbal tea. The heat soothes raw throat and the fluid helps to thin out and clear mucus.

TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 · 30/12/2019 14:11

That should say ribena or herbal tea

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