Home remedies for colds and flu

[puggy]

hot water with generous dollop of honey in it and a generous
tot of whisky ,stir sip followed by couple hrs sleep always
helps me

[Welly]

I get sinus headaches and when a colds coming I quickly start taking "Sinutab" as this is a decongestant and paracetamol and works well.

So far I have not had a proper cold at all even though I've felt one starting.

That and 31 cans of Stella per week.

[steve_earwig]

I dunno what you've got but here we have some sort of virus-induced respiratory infection, then the flu is supposed to arrive shortly, just what people need when they're already weakened by this virus thing. I expect the population will thin a little.

Strong black tea, honey, lemon. Plus the usual stuff - plenty of fluids, stay warm, vitamins + asperin.

[mjb]

Tyrozets are the things for a sore throat. Either that, or Southern Comfort (nasty but effective)

Ludicrously strong curry also makes for a powerful decongestant!

[Welly]

Ludicrously strong curry also makes for a powerful decongestant!

Wrong end of the body though

[Doggy]

Sorry if this is stating the blindingly obvious, but IMHO all medicines, (broadly), help your system fix itself. You can improve its chances by getting as near as you can to plenty of sleep & plenty to eat - spoil yourself a bit till you're over it.

[mjb]

Actually from what I understand a lot of medicines do the exact opposite. If you take antibiotics to help deal with an infection, then your body's immune system will sit back and let the antibiotics do all the work, and in future will produce less antibodies to deal with the problem because it's been programmed to expect antibiotics to do the work for it...

The flu vaccine is an interesting exception. From what I can tell It causes the body to think there's something very seriously wrong, and release a full-on attack against the vaccine which just happens to require the same antibodies to kill as the current mutations of the flu virus. The result is that if you do come into contact with the real flu virus, your body is ready to kill it off as soon as it enters your body, before it can multiply. Interestingly the reason people keep picking up the flu, and the reason the vaccine needs an annual 'booster' is that the virus mutates at about a rate which means your bodies defences are no good against it after about a year, hence the booster is actually 'tweaked' every year

Biology was so boring at school, but reading about stuff like that actually gets my interest now and again...

[rapport25]

Actually from what I understand a lot of medicines do the exact opposite. If you take antibiotics to help deal with an infection, then your body's immune system will sit back and let the antibiotics do all the work, and in future will produce less antibodies to deal with the problem because it's been programmed to expect antibiotics to do the work for it...

The flu vaccine is an interesting exception. From what I can tell It causes the body to think there's something very seriously wrong, and release a full-on attack against the vaccine which just happens to require the same antibodies to kill as the current mutations of the flu virus. The result is that if you do come into contact with the real flu virus, your body is ready to kill it off as soon as it enters your body, before it can multiply. Interestingly the reason people keep picking up the flu, and the reason the vaccine needs an annual 'booster' is that the virus mutates at about a rate which means your bodies defences are no good against it after about a year, hence the booster is actually 'tweaked' every year

Biology was so boring at school, but reading about stuff like that actually gets my interest now and again...

Totally agree Mjb

Its very surprising how the body deals with infections etc.... Its very true about being given a treatment. Just think of you body like a computer.Once it knows how to fight something it will store the process for future ref.

Think of someone who has had cancer and has chemo to treat it there immune system is back to 0 as if you were a child so you have to start building your immune system back up. Not very nice

[ianst28]

one glass of hot milk with added whiskey and either honey or sugar to sweeten

drink just before bed and sleep on the cold you'll feel loads better in the morning

[teamster1975]

Following a trend here, honey and lemon & whiskey! If it doesn't work you get pissed and don't care anyway!

[Welly]

I spent most of the evening with a bright red/hot face and feeling knackered then a *very* broken night's sleep with sweating

I also had a very realistic dream that I sh*t myself checked the bedding this morning though

[steve_earwig]

Dreams about poo here are supposed to mean you'll come into money- quick, go buy a lottery ticket!




-and give me half

[Welly]

Way hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

Where there's muck there's Brass

[steve_earwig]

Same thing happened to me once, went to the supermarket buy a lottery ticket first thing in the morning, found 100kn note while I was shopping.

Of course, I didn't win the lottery

[Welly]

I spent most of the evening with a bright red/hot face and feeling knackered then a *very* broken night's sleep with sweating

I also had a very realistic dream that I sh*t myself checked the bedding this morning though

You just spoilt my fantasy...

What? the sweating or the poo?

And it's ok Soops I'm very clean - just not in my dreams

In fact I think I'd get away with crying out "Supafrisk" in my sleep her indoors would just think I'm losing it