Hi Found advice generally very useful and amusing. As a result I will now use contraceptives without fail, but sorry cannot promise to keep off the diuretics, especially the alcohol! After all I do need my sleep now I have reached the ripe old age of 81. All the best and keepem coming. Alec Watts
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 I put my trust in an old family recipe, half destroyed, which starts " take the joose of wun bottlee of scotchee........". Sadly, the rest is lost in the mists of antiquity, but who cares?
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 vit C tab - crushed garlic tab - crushed honey - desert sp whiskey - 4 shots boiling water - 2 shots add all the contents together and stir, try not to smell. ingest before heading to bed warning: flu mixture may cause adverse affects, do not try to operate heavy machinery after ingestion, do not ingest more than one dosage at a time
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 how about vit c tab taken with whisky. garlic tab taken with whisky honey taken with whisky whisky taken. ideally taken whilst sitting on bed.
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 Use contraceptives??? Is this because fertility produces snot-nosed little 'uns who will bring you back every virus under the sun from school? Or, given colds are an upper airways disease is this some kind of no-touch sordid condom-over-the head auto-erotic asphyxiation deal
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 At the VERY FIRST ( sorry to shout) sign of coughs, colds, sneezes etc, start munching echinacea tablets. These boost your immune system, and really do work, honest.
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 if you live/work/meet people, as most of us do, you are giong to get air-borne infections from them. doesn't matter what you take to try and avoid them, some things like 'flu jabs, might make them not as bad as they could be, but you can still get them. the best advice to treat a cold is:- drink plenty of fluids. take paracetamol (or simalier ). get as much rest as possible. if out on a trip try and "shorten" your day/s if possible, untill you recover, hopfully with-in 48/72 hrs. H
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 Just starting to come down with 'freshers' flu' (ie: cold). I've been surrounded by coughing, spluttering and sniffing students for the last month, so it's about par for the course. Fortunately I don't have to lecture again this week (I once had to give a lecture with a sore throat and lost my voice for a fortnight  ). I shall try all the above suggestions and let you know if I survive the effects of them 
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MK, good luck. H
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"And the cold and vitimin C thing is rubbish too" pah! nonsense! they didn't try it with whisky. old wives knew a thing or two. or if not, knew how to make the most of things. if whisky doesn't work then try a baileys with a large shot of jameson's in it on day two. i can guarantee using rum on the third day will definitely make you start to feel better. by day four you'll be able to get out of bed without staggering.
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parky again. what's happened to you avatar?
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 Cheap whisky [why waste money on the good stuff if you cant taste it?] and a b*st*rd hot curry.
You may get a headache and a sore arse the next day, but who cares?
With luck you'll be off work anyway and a few more aches and pains won't make much difference; a cold's going to run it's course no matter what you do.
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.jpg) I heard that there are about 200 strains of the common cold and you can only get each one once. This is why kids, teenagers and young adults get more colds than older people. The older people have already had them. I don't have any references to post but why would I? It is me talking and not wiki/google etc.
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Dandy Mountain Man, I have done as you suggested, and set all those medical types at the New England thingummy straight. They sent back a grovelling apology, and some vouchers for Holland and Barrett. So thanx for your advice! I shall be renewing my supply of echinacea tablets, and I may well get some of those Haliborange vitamin C tabs as well, as they are very good too. Doctor, a headache and a sore arse? Slipped in the prison showers lately, have we?!
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 DMM,
I know that the case for echincacea isn't conclusive, and some studies have found no benefit; but that's not the whole picture. Have a read of this - especially the published studies on page 6
http://www.rxlist.com/echinacea-drug.htm
I actually think that it could be helpful if used at the very first signs of a cold in shortening the symptoms. At the very worst it isn't harmful (unless consumed for several weeks at a time).
John
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whiskey all the way, dont know if it gets rid but makes me feel better and helps me sleep like a log which you normaly struggle to when your bunged up. also a couple of antibiotics help as i dont take any tablets normaly so they have the same effect of knocking me out cold or both like a few christmases (whats the plural of christmas?) went to bed rough as the proverbial at about 9pm on christmas eve woke up 9am christmas day feeling 100% better
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that could have just been the whisky jon. i assume the antibiotic is in lieu of just more whisky to help you sleep as they have no effect at all on a cold. lol mickw. don't forget your vegan raisins whilst you're in there. cheap whisky doctor? is there any other kind? huskyman, i've decided to regress even further.
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 Somewhere or other recently, it was on Radio 4 the other week, a report on this fact, in the US there has been a good deal of research done that has come to the considered conclusion that a lot of the most believeable 'cure-alls' of the health food store for common colds are complete bunkum! So forget garlic, vit C high doeses etc etc Edit - I should add here really, I suppose, that though there was no proven benefits from taking the high doses of Vit C, E etc, found in the US medical trials; there was however apparently an indication, in some patients, of a possible probable 'placebo' type effect of taking such items for a bad cold/flu infection.
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parky the tablets may not have been antibiotics but I agree solely helped with the sleep as I just dont take tablets when I mashed my knee a few years back the nurse in treage (again spelling) gave me pain killers/antibiotics and when they came to take me through about 5 hours later to look at my knee it took my mum and a porter to manhandle me into a wheel chair and then onto the bed as I was out cold. Infact it took the doctor shouting right lets operate to wake me up
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