First aid box winter preparation

MerylStreep

Did it start here ?

www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1094347/world-military-games-illness-covid-19

Probably. That was mentioned to me by Australians at the time as they have workers going over from Wuhan to Australia.

Olbas Oil is also worth having. It is very good for congestion but what a lot don’t realise is the it is also a very good muscle rub. Also it is a natural product.

Honey in a bit of hot water, lemon or orange juice and a slug of rum.

Did it start here ?

www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1094347/world-military-games-illness-covid-19

Lemsip they've been completely withdrawn from the market, you won't be able to get any.

I'm off to get the Chloralieve and need to replenish my echinaea.

My Dad always recommended salt gargle and my Mum used to make glycerine, honey and lemon drinks.

Old-fashioned remedies are still useful although I don't use glycerine in the drink.

DH and I were both wiped out with non-covid December 2019. It certainly wasn’t a flu as we both had difficulty breathing with DH eventually prescribed steroids. It was weeks before we began to feel better.
I also suffered tonsillitis all through childhood and eventually had a tonsillectomy aged 21! Boy, was that painful at an older age.
Salt gargle, I find, instantly relieves a sore throat along with honey and lemon drinks. Items I always have at home anyway.

kittylester

Am I strange? I hadn't thought about setting up a winter first aid box. We have paracetamol..

I didn't think of it either, kittylester, I just check the use by dates of what is in the cupboard!

And think "If it's not too out-of-date it should work"
Don't try that at home.

Am I strange? I hadn't thought about setting up a winter first aid box. We have paracetamol..

I was thinking about Tyrosets only yesterday and wondering if you could still get them so thanks for posting, I shall get some today.. Many years ago the doctor prescribed them for my sore throat.

Great remedies there ! My friend swears by an onion ( raw) sandwich when she has sore throats , colds etc. I don't think I could eat that - really dislike raw onion.
Shandy 57 , I too had repeated tonsillitis as a child / teenager. Had tonsils removed aged 17 and never regretted it. Sore throats gone for ever! I remember well the pain and horrible infections , it had a massive impact on my life. Sounds dramatic I know and in the grand scheme of things I suppose it was a minor problem - but the difference it made to me was remarkable. As you say it is not done anymore but it definitely worked for me . No more days off sick from work. I have been perfectly fine without them . Fortunately my DC and GC escape the dreaded tonsillitis!

The talk of raw onions brings to mind my mother’s preferred remedy, a disgusting linctus called Liqua Fruta. Only the really ill could be persuaded to swallow it though I think it was pretty effective.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Zinc lozenges for sore throats .

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