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I am full of it. My head ~~hurts like a~~ feels like a hundred dogs are in it, sneezing, and spitting in my ear-canals. Give me weird and wonderful ways to make people feel better when they can't breathe or speak or hear properly and have watery snot running out of their proboscii!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 October 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

stick bits of tissue up your nose.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 October 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Make sparkling coctails out of lempsip and vodka!

― kate (kate), Monday, 20 October 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Groo, I had this a couple of weeks ago. Advice I should have followed: Don't go to work. Otherwise, take on board lots of vitamins and drugxor and eat a v hot curry to help clear the sinuses.

Woke up with sore, phlegmy throat this morning. Hope I'm not about to go under the weather agin :(

― robster (robster), Monday, 20 October 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I might go home at lucnhtime. The curry idea sounds good. Rather than sparkling cocktails with Lemsip and vodka I might go for port and brandy with a couple of asprins dropped in it. Bits of tissue? As a man with erratic facial hair I'd look like I'd been clumsily shaving my nose...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, if you want serious advice, beef up on Vitamin C, Zinc and Echinacea (sp?). Though stinking hot curry is actually a very good idea.

― kate (kate), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm thinking chilli rather than curry. Mmmm...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried echinacea when I had my cold but didn't feel noticably better. Was I meant to or does it just aid the body in fighting off the lurgee?

― robster (robster), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Get some decongestants, ideally hardcore ones, cos even if the main nastiness goes away after a few days you'll still have a good fortnight of increasingly viscous phlegm (do Americans not use the word "catarrh", btw?). Otherwise, do the usual. Lots of fluid, paracetemol every 4 hours, rest and try not to pass it on to too many people, though by now you're probably not infectious.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Make yourself a nice, hot herbal brew with ginger, fennel and cinnamon.

― freedom dupont, Monday, 20 October 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that they need my help in advertising, but this stuff (when it works) is truly remarkable:

http://www.coldeeze.com

I second the ginger suggestion as well.

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

echinacea, if it does anything at all, aparently only helps prevent colds, once you've got one it doesn't do much good. The one winter I took it I did seem to steer clear of colds, so it might be a thing to start taking to avoid another one.

Hot toddies always do the trick, particularly if being bunged up is stopping you sleeping properly.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

my flatmate has this oil stuff that you put on a kleenex or your pillow that really clears my sinuses. something like albos oil? i was suspicious at first, but it seems to make a difference.

that, and maximum strength sudafed.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Olbas (sp) oil is really good. You can get it in a little inhaler aswell.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Vacuum cleaner held up to the snout does the trick. Alas, you tend to die.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

heroin saves

― dave q, Monday, 20 October 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned suggestion seems like the only option when you are in thr throws of a cold. I fear I may be about to be in this bad situ. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Know Your Enemy

― robster (robster), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot Thai curries work a treat.

Lemsip often makes me feel worse so I have a mug of hot lemon, ginger and dried chillis instead (tip: strain out ginger and chillis before putting drink anywhere near your mouth). Put whisky in this if you like that sort of thing.

However, if you have that special cold where your head feels bunged up and you're waiting to cough or just generally bring up that giant shelf of concentrated snot that heralds a cold, and you can get to a Turkish bath or steam room, go there. You will hack that thing up in about one minute after you take your seat in the steam room, and that's probably the worst part of the cold over with.

Mark: catarrh is NOT widely used as a term in America.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

For the sake of my best mate and his job, could you please all buy VICKS. Thanks.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly there's a definite lack of Turkish baths in Dawlish.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the following old-fashioned advice really helpful:

Lots of warm chicken soup. Lots of chamomile tea and orange juice. Lots of bed rest.

You might want to take cold medicine; then again, you might not. But the soup, tea, orange juice, and bed rest will help you out, definitely.

Colds are assholes. I hope you rip this one to shreds.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Deanna is right to suggest 'booster' quantities of vitamin C - remember, if you smoke, you have to take at least three times the normal dosage.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Night Nurse and Day Nurse - my dad swears by them.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

in the absence of a turkish bath, shut yourself in the bathroom and run hot water from the sink and tub taps full-blast.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss Dayquil.

That shit gave my mother a religious out-of-body experience once!

― kate (kate), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, I didn't get a cold but everyone else in my office had one last week, so on Friday I said "I think I'm getting that cold, I don't feel so good, I'd better go home" and left at 3:00. Boo yah.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well done Nick, good work!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

*grumble*

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

Remind me again why sticking a vacuum cleaner up my nose to suck out all the mucus and sinuses forever so I am no longer plagued with them is a bad idea.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

Get one of those bulbs they use to suck the crap out of newborns' noses.

― WmC, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)

Tempting.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:58 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

yaow. bro arrives for a weekend of munich times tomorrow. went to supermercado and bought 6l of OJ and two cases of beer. too old for this shit.

― caek, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

beer heals all.

― thebingo2010 (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

represent cold sufferers, i can't stop swallowing mucus....i know you wanted that info.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

no booze this weekend, which is shit. i'm unemployed and lack human contact.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

MUCINEX.

― Str8 Drapin It (chrisv2010), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:21 (fifteen years ago)

i guess i could just drink anyway, except i've had this cold since last wednesday then had pretty much the heaviest weekend of my life at my friend's wedding back in ireland. on the other hand, if an unemployed man stays home all day in his room with a cold prolonged by boozing, does he make a sound?

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

it is cold and i have one.

― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

Mucinex seconded! But drink like three pint glasses of water for each pill, I'm begging you. That stuff will STRAIGHT DEHYDRATE you, viciously, which if you're going to be drinking is the last thing you need.

― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

seconded

― Str8 Drapin It (chrisv2010), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

buyin some fuckin vests tomorrow. on the way to work, if i can.

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:40 (fifteen years ago)

so are we talking about both the cold virus and the temperature here? Cuz if so, pertaining to the latter - FUCKING HELL.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

temperature, imo.

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

FUCKING HELL. tomorrow i will be resorting to the t-shirt under the heavy jumper under the heavy hoodie under the heavy coat under the scarf accompanied by the gloves outfit, mobility be damned.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:01 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, shirt to work but definitely something thermal under it your grandad would have shamed you by wearing at the beach

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

yuck

― remy bean, Monday, 20 June 2011 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

i just did my neti pot, and ushered forth a whole family of yodas from my sinus cavity

― remy bean, Monday, 20 June 2011 12:49 (fourteen years ago)

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