First aid box winter preparation

Pharmacy Magazine (a trade journal) has suggested pharmacies offer Chloralieve Honey & Lemon lozenges instead.

Antibiotics are no longer recommended. Honey has been shown to be equally if not more effective rather than overusing antibiotics. I find Boots own blackcurrant pastilles to be very soothing.

I’m not sure if it was an antibiotic, I thought that Tyrozets and similar contained a type of anaesthetic.
In fact I’m pretty sure that’s the case.

Onion juice is the best for anything throat/ chest related.
Cut onions up into chunks, complete with ‘roots’ ( that’s the good bit)
Sprinkle with sugar, cover. The sugar will draw out all the onion juice. It’s actually very nice ?

Apologies if I’m mistaken!

They weren’t antibiotics as such FannyC but they did contain an antibiotic.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/over-the-counter-lozenges-for-sore-throat-fuelling-rise-of-superbugs-128632/

I cannot abide raw onion, it affects my eyes very severely.

Thanks for the Chloralieve recommendation Blossoming, the young lady offered me Strepfen or a throat spray.

You are right FannyCornforth, Tyrozets contained benzocaine which numbed the pain, very welcome when I could hardly swallow. The name Tyrozets is taken from the antibiotic aspect of Tyrothicin.

I had acute tonsillitis throughout my childhood/teens and don't know where I'd have been without these. I was working at the BBC at 18 and had such a lot of time off sick with it I agreed to have my tonsils out, I know they don't do this nowadays. I still get very very sore throats even without them but do keep honey in the house now and will get some lemons too. Don't think I could bear the onions MerylStreep but thank you for the remedy.

Gargle with salt water ?

Gargling with TCP is very good provided you don’t have to interact with anyone

You've reminded me of gargling with crushed aspirin which works as a pain killer, thank you.

25Avalon my friend used to have a phobia about germs, and actually 'drank' liquid TCP. She used such harsh chemicals on her body she lost her eyelashes and all body hair, poor girl.

In the past we’ve made an infusion with purple sage leaves and gargled with it for a sore throat.

Zinc lozenges for sore throats .

Anything in that box for 'world weariness'? Roy Cropper in Coronation Street used the phrase. I understood straight away what he meant

Day and Night Nurse for the sort of cold where your nose runs non stop.
Benylin Drowsy and Non-Drowsy for nuisance coughs.
Vicks Vapour rub.
But we usually have those in anyway.

I love the smell of TCP!

I remember being very ill (found out it was pneumonia about a week later) and taking the Benylin cold and flu liquid. Have never tasted anything as awful again.

I had a terrible cough at Christmas 2019 which apparently couldn't have been Covid because it hadn't arrived here then. After weeks I found some Bronchostop lozenges in a Home Bargains store and they were cheap (99p) but effective. However, they did cost £5 a packet in Boots when I went to buy more locally.

Sago

Zinc lozenges for sore throats .

Zinc is good for the immune system. Zinc + Vitamin C and some Vitamin D as prevention is better than cure.

Callistemon

I had a terrible cough at Christmas 2019 which apparently couldn't have been Covid because it hadn't arrived here then. After weeks I found some Bronchostop lozenges in a Home Bargains store and they were cheap (99p) but effective. However, they did cost £5 a packet in Boots when I went to buy more locally.

That would be the same non-covid virus? that I caught and wiped out my smell and taste.

Yes, me too, couldn't smell anything.
But that was, of course, pre-Covid.

I think Covid was here in 2019. I went to the Edinburgh Fringe and when I came back in early September I had the most awful cold and cough. I remember I couldn't taste my food, but thought that was because of my blocked nose.

As I live alone and felt frightened I felt so very ill, I went to the doctor who tested my oxygen levels and they were far too low. Merystreep did you go to the doctor too?

I was on the verge of going to ask for antibiotics after 5 or 6 weeks but then started to get better slowly.

So relieved to read of you people who think they had covid before it arrived. Me too.

Us too.
Dh started with worst cough he has ever suffered. (January 2020)
Left him gasping for breath.
Had to sit upright in chair all night .
Passed it on to me beginning of February
Awful cough and terrible headache.

Our coughs lingered on for weeks.

As for tyrozets I have not had any call to buy for a couple of years, but found them very useful for numbing a sore throught.

DH swears by cheese and raw Spanish onion sandwich washed down with a hot lemsip.

Me, I prefer honey, freshly squeezed lemon and ginger as my go to.
Also hot lemonade.