To have burst my mum’s bubble re: ribena?

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Talking to my mum on the phone earlier and she was telling me how she was going to stock up on Ribena because she heard on the radio that Dominic Cummings had been really ill with coronavirus but his four year old son had been giving him spoonfuls of Ribena and he got better. She said she thinks ‘they’ need to start compiling reports of all the things that have helped people.

I said I am sure a healthy diet helps, and Ribena does contain vitamin C, but that I refused to believe that Ribena was a coronavirus cure, it seemed pretty far-fetched to me.

I wish I had more patience but honestly, she’s all about the conspiracy theories and such like, we are all under strain with lockdown and I just couldn’t listen to her.

She’s now in a bad mood with me.

Was I being unreasonable?

but NOT avoid

Placebo, I think placebos can work well. I'd let her believe it can help but not avoid other medical interventions. Sorry, YABU. thanks

handbagsatdawn33 "Surely everyone knows that homemade Chicken Soup cures all known illnesses?"

It's a bit of damp kitchen towel in our house, sickness or headache, applied to the head!

Ms Wakefield said their son, Ceddy, had “administered” Ribena to Mr Cummings with the “grim insistence of a Broadmoor nurse” as he lay sick.
“This might be my only really useful advice for other double-Covid

A broadmoor nurse would have been better for him.

YABU

I got through a bottle of Ribena first 2 weeks with COVID, having not drunk the stuff since childhood. Saved my life.

I think Ribena is full of sweeteners now so the tinfoil hat brigade should hate it. I know that elderflower syrup is the thing the crunchy mamas think cures all.

There is some evidence high dose vitamin C can help fight CV, I'm taking a high dose supplement which I've taken for a couple of years. I don't think it will cure me but anything that helps my immunity a little bit won't hurt.

I make vegan chicken noodle soup when anyone is ill here ...its.onion , celery , carrots , mushrooms , vegetable stock , vegan chicken pieces , rice.noodles , lemon juice and herbs it's amazing .. Also orange juice and agarve syrup and lemon in hot water x it's so.lovely every family has there.own thing they.do .. Yanbu up you.don't want her to have false sense of security x

YABU.

Warm ribena, a.k.a magic medicine, cures all manner of ills. FACT.

Not tea, ribena

The tendency with people with that level of delusion is the they tell themselves that they know that ribena won't prevent covid19, but "it can't do any harm". And the same with meditation, and essential oils, and a brisk walk, and crystals, and chicken soup, and bathing in Dettol, and whole load of other palpable bollocks. But they think that if you do all of these ineffective things they can somehow aggregate into an effective treatment.

Anyway, you're wasting your time if you try to introduce reason!

You can see how these things come about, someone who is weak and not eating/drinking is given a spoonful regularly of a high sugar liquid which gives them a little boost, mean while and unrelated to it their immune system is busy making antibodies. Then the person improves due to the antibodies but in the persons mind it’s the Ribena

Lucozade, hot Ribena, Rosehip syrup = death's door. (Don't forget the hot water bottle)
Beat up egg in warm milk, egg in a cup = getting better
VIMTO - (who remembers that ìt "sparkles right up your nose" = you'll be well enough for school tomorrow
Big reward for all the suffering, my grandpa sharing a boiled onion with lots of salt, pepper, melted butter and vinegar - I believe that is what cured me of whatever it was I was supposed to have had.
The whole winter being given Halibut Orange - purely in the hope that we all get out of the house every day.

Tinned soup is NOT a superfood! It is rubbish, with no nutritional benefit.

Yanbu, and Dominic Cummings should not have had his 4 year old close enough to feed him ribena whilst he himself had covid19. Even if he thought his 4 year old had had it.

My Irish stepmum swears by flat Sprite to cure any and all illness, and I’ve seen several memes suggesting this is a well known irishmammy remedy
Well, 7UP does cure all. (Brandname might be a personal thing.) Flat 7UP is all you need if you've sick:

meanwhileinireland.com/health-minister-orders-18m-barrels-of-flat-7up-to-tackle-coronavirus/

They've changed traditional lucozade - gone the way of less sugar, like every fucking thing else . Little wonder GPS are so busy with minor ailments these days...

My (negligent) Mother used to tuck me up in bed with lucozade and a squirt of her perfume when I was poorly. Then she used to bugger off out for hours, safe in the knowledge that those protective agents would cure whatever I was ailing from.

OP, your mum sounds like my MIL - bullshit theories, hard of thinking “cures”. When I’m feeling kind I think “if this helps you feel less anxious, go for it.” But mostly I wish she’d get a grip. She was a nurse for 25 years, you’d think she’d know better.

gripe water

GRIPE WATER!

That stuff is DELICIOUS!

Used to buy it for the baby and neck it myself (apparently it has an alcohol content - or used to have, not sure if we are still at risk of raising infant alcoholics.

Ribena hasn't been the same for me since they put it in a plastic bottle.

Tinned soup is NOT a superfood! It is rubbish, with no nutritional benefit.

I'm pretty sure the main benefit of most soups, tinned or not, when you've got a cold is that it means you're sitting over a steamy bowl.

Just say maybe but it's probably a coincidence, works with my mum. I love ribena

@TheRoyallingStones
It would have to be flat 7up, not Sprite!!

I still can't get over Ceddy. (Cedric?) Poor kid.

Ribena is very sugary. Being diabetic I drank Ribena light which was lovely. Then I started to get an upset stomach for no obvious reason. I checked the label and it has that sweetener which is well known for causing stomach upsets. They also put it in diabetic chocolate with the same result. I am very disappointed!

I read in a book years ago ( about marketing ) that when 7up was invented about a century ago it was originally marketed as a hangover cure or something. They found that people liked the taste and the marketing strategy quickly changed.

We have an emergency supply of Ribena and the see through orange lucozade in our “corona prep box” two bottles of each.

I have both fond and horrible memories of the lucozade when I was a kid. It was brought out if we were ill. If we were faking to get out of school the lucozade was out in a flash. Yuk.

Oh god. My DM ( who normally seems fairly sensible) warned us all early on in this not to eat garlic as 'It's in the garlic. That's why the Chinese, Italians and Spanish all got it so badly'.