What's your best cold / flu remedy?

[Karlos]

Hi,

As some of you may have noticed, I've been online a bit more frequently of late. That's partially down to the fact that I'm wiped out with a really bad cold that has floored me since Friday and I can't seem to do anything else just now.

Seeing as I am here, what do you guys use to help shift the lurgey? All suggestions welcome, but for me personally, booze is out of the question :-)

Cheers...

[Karlos]

Hydrogen Peroxide ey? Alas I don't have any handy right now :-)

[Karlos]

Being genetically semi-geordie, things like multiple broken bones, severed limbs and other such trauma etc never really faze me, but I always seem to get bad colds :lol: I guess I am just susceptible.

I'll look into this stuff if it is half as good as you say it is :-D

[Karlos]

Well, lets see.

First I had naught but a sore throat and a bit of a blocked nose. Not so bad but the throat was unusually sore, I don't normally notice them.

Within a few hours I had an invisible torniquet of steel tightening around my temples that made it feel as if my eyes would burst out of their sockets from the building pressure of that and whatever was brewing in the sinuses.

The initial symptoms have subsided a bit (throat is fine now), but I am left with a heavy cough, aching chest, still blocked nose and a headache that by normal standards is pretty heavy, although paracetamol seems to be keeping that under control.

Oh, and I've barely slept as a result of either blowing my nose all night or coughing my guts up the following night.

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:

There is not much else you can do. Of course you should be eating regularly (no fasting) and you should be drinking regularly otherwise you aren't going to shake it. So on medical grounds you must cut the fasting, that's what is making this cold worse.

If you don't listen I'll have to put a call in to Lily the Pink and she'll be round your house with her Fantastic Flu Fighting Enema Apparatus (tm) so don't mess about, lad.  :-P

You'll be relieved to hear that I haven't fasted during this time except for the day the initial symptoms took hold (was halfway through the day by then).

[Karlos]

@X-Ray

BTW, I'd just like to say thanks for "lung oysters". That's been added to the old term collection :-D

[Karlos]

Well folks, I am bouncing right back today. I seem to have produced a hell of a harvest of the old lung oysters though. I get a fresh batch break free with every hearty laugh I get here :-)

Cheers :-)

[Karlos]

Doobrey wrote:

Glad to see you're feeling better Karlos.. hope it wasn't as bad as my last cold, when I coughed so hard I burst blood vessels in the whites of my eyes and they went completely blood red..got called Satan down the pub for ages after that :evilgrin:

Cheers.

So you couldn't intimidate the bar staff with the "your soul or a free pint" line?

[Karlos]

Doobrey wrote:
Anyway, I think I've just become the first victim of a cold that can spread via the internet..danks a dot Kardos ..snifff... splutter..

That's what I get for using iLife stuff on the mac at work. Never saw they added iSneeze and virus sharing. You better get their reccomended digital lozenge, "iTunes"....


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[Karlos]

Evidently not :lol:

Get well soon though. Seems theres some good advice on this thread.

It was my first day back at work today (after 1 1/2 days sick). I should have stayed off today too :lol:

I guess that means I owe the new gripe jar at work another 10p :lol: