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« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2007, 08:58:45 PM » |
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I'll maybe try get some, wish i hadn't thrown a sickie the other week, means I'll have to go in tomorrow regardless
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« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2007, 09:08:32 PM » |
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As everyone knows, there is no cure for the common cold, to catch a cold you must come into contact with a new cold causing virus but you ill never have the same cold twice.
Vitamin C in clinically tests is not proven in any way to decrease the symptoms of cold or help you get over it when you contract it.
Lemsips main active ingredient as many other "cold relievers" is paracetemol so just pop one of them instead of wasting your money. Your better off spending your money on a decongestant which targets the sinuses and doesnt pretend to kill the cold.
As sark said sweating it out is probably the most effective way of killing a cold as you increase the core temperature which takes the virus out of its optimum envirnment but in truth you have to reach fever temperatures for that to work.
So in a long winded way, just tough it out, but buy some decongestant tablets.
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« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2007, 09:09:13 PM » |
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Lemsip, honey and whisky. Early night with lots of bedding.
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« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2007, 10:21:20 PM » |
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Lemsip, honey and whisky. Early night with lots of bedding.
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« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2007, 10:24:20 PM » |
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My farther inlaw swears by boiling lots of lemons and drinking it all night warmed up. Does the trick 4 him but not yet worked 4 me.
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« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2007, 10:27:02 PM » |
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My farther inlaw swears by boiling lots of lemons and drinking it all night warmed up. Does the trick 4 him but not yet worked 4 me.
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« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2007, 10:28:31 PM » |
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My farther inlaw swears by boiling lots of lemons and drinking it all night warmed up. Does the trick 4 him but not yet worked 4 me.
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« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2007, 10:29:07 PM » |
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Lemsip, honey and whisky. Early night with lots of bedding.
Top recipe as before skip the healthy stuff -- bin the lemsip -- bin the honey (unless she's hot) and quadruple the whiskey (and yes it's spelt with an 'e' only the scots & canadians drop the 'e') |
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« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2007, 11:16:43 PM » |
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Stew and sympathy.
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« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2007, 11:22:52 PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2007, 11:35:59 PM » |
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Only way to kill a cold is by drinking boiled lemonade....
For a bad cough.... butter,sugar and vinegar....
Its true.......... or so Petes dad says....
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« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2007, 02:26:33 AM » |
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My farther inlaw swears by boiling lots of lemons and drinking it all night warmed up. Does the trick 4 him but not yet worked 4 me.
Any early night with something warm inside you is your prescription. Spot on...best cure for a cold is to go at it hammer and tong and sweat it out. If you are really good she wont notice that the sweat dripping from your forehead is mixed with snot ;-) |
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« Reply #27 on: September 04, 2007, 07:48:24 AM » |
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Damn, if you'd have replied earlier I wouldn't have eaten both doughnuts
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« Reply #28 on: September 04, 2007, 08:02:34 AM » |
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Seems to be a very common problem atm.
I have suffered from it for well over a week now, came on very suddenly and after spending a day or two in bed dosed up with no effect, I have decided to "get on with life" and wait for it to pass.
Terrible in this day and age that there is no cure for a common cold/flu - I actually believe that there is a cure already! But just imagine the revenue the drug companies would loose if it ever came out! - Just read the contents of Lemsip (cost £3 ish) - its just paracetamol with a decongestant (which you can buy seperately for about £1.50)
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« Reply #29 on: September 04, 2007, 09:51:04 AM » |
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I was ill with this last week. Got a really sore throat at work on Tuesday, took Weds and Thu off as it had reached my chest, felt better on Friday, so went in to work. However it then went back to my chest on Saturday afternoon and knocked my weekend on the head.
Moral: just stay away from work, it's unhealthy.
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