Head Cold

[eighthobstruction]

Cut down on the dairy products....makes mucus....

[Anna]

Cut down on the dairy products....makes mucus....

Didn't Janis Joplin scoff loads of chocolate before a gig to make her voice more throaty?
I haven't had a cold for years, had a nasty fluey type thingy few weeks back, no runny nose but sore throat, hacking cough and aching head to toe, all I felt like doing was curling up with a book and was going to bed at 9pm. I thought they'd proved echinacea and supplements were a waste of money and zinc supplements raised blood pressure to a dangerous level?
I believe in the power of chilies, ginger and garlic. Birmingham Uni have proved beyond doubt that a stonkingly hot curry has a better effect that any LemSip or Night Nurse.

[Flosshilde]

I don't think it matters whether you're naked or not, Ferret, just where you put it

[teamsaint]

garlic BURNS !!!!!
As a suppository ?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Anyway, get better soon, all you snufflers. I had a stinker before xmas, really not funny. Had to miss Saints beating Reading.

[Petrushka]

I travel to work by train every day and spend most of my time behind a desk so I can usually take it for granted I'll have one cold after another during the winter. To my astonishment, I've not even had a ghost of the tiniest sniffle this whole winter-time while all around me office colleagues have been falling like flies. I can only think I've built up an immunity after all these years.

I did have the most awful head cold at the end of 2011 which got badly into my ears and I just couldn't shift it for about 4 months. Very unpleasant and very difficult to cope with.

[EdgeleyRob]

When I used to smoke I never got colds or bugs,now I am a non smoker I seem to get everything.

Manflu is the worst thing.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

I travel to work by train every day and spend most of my time behind a desk so I can usually take it for granted I'll have one cold after another during the winter. To my astonishment, I've not even had a ghost of the tiniest sniffle this whole winter-time while all around me office colleagues have been falling like flies. I can only think I've built up an immunity after all these years.

I did have the most awful head cold at the end of 2011 which got badly into my ears and I just couldn't shift it for about 4 months. Very unpleasant and very difficult to cope with.

it is when it gets in the inner ear ... really loathsome and very hard if not impossible to do any thing about it

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I did have the most awful head cold at the end of 2011 which got badly into my ears and I just couldn't shift it for about 4 months. Very unpleasant and very difficult to cope with.

Oh, yes; I remember you mentioning it at the time - it sounded awful.

I'm another sufferer of this wretched cold - it knocked me for six four weeks ago and has stuck in my chest since then: a nasty tickly wheeze that isn't good for an asthmatic.

I think I prefer it to using a garlic suppository, though!

[Ferretfancy]

I don't think it matters whether you're naked or not, Ferret, just where you put it

Mr Horne interviews Jules and Sandy after their disaster at sea -"Were you dragged up on deck ? ' No, just casually dressed ' ( Well, it is late and yes, I did cough once at the concert tonight ! )

[scottycelt]

Sorry to be a really miserable party pooper yet again but I've never felt better and haven't had a proper head cold or flu since since way back during the last millennium, sometime around 1998.

Saly's point re a doctor's advice is interesting. When I was youth not so many years ago and caught one of the dreaded bugs my dad used to roar in his ever-gentle way 'In the name of Jesus, scottycelt, stop spreading your germs around and get to your bed and drink plenty of water!'. I didn't argue and sank over a gallon of the stuff.

I swear it always did the trick and presumably the bug was swept away and eventually perished by way of drowning. The trouble was that I spent as much time making trips to the bathroom as lying in bed, with the result I felt wretched the following day, especially if I had to face a full work session. Sometimes I used to think I'd rather have settled for the original cold/flu symptoms.

However, I can confirm the water-cure actually does work ... well, at least it always did for me ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Mr Horne interviews Jules and Sandy after their disaster at sea -"Were you dragged up on deck ? ' No, just casually dressed ' ( Well, it is late and yes, I did cough once at the concert tonight ! )

"Jules was once terribly stung on holiday"
"Portuguese Man'o'War?"
"Dunno, we never saw 'im with 'is clothes on..."

[salymap]

Sorry to be a really miserable party pooper yet again but I've never fel




t better and haven't had a proper head cold or flu since since way back during the last millennium, sometime around 1998.

Saly's point re a doctor's advice is interesting. When I was youth not so many years ago and caught one of the dreaded bugs my dad used to roar in his ever-gentle way 'In the name of Jesus, scottycelt, stop spreading your germs around and get to your bed and drink plenty of water!'. I didn't argue and sank over a gallon of the stuff.

I swear it always did the trick and presumably the bug was swept away and eventually perished by way of drowning. The trouble was that I spent as much time making trips to the bathroom as lying in bed, with the result I felt wretched the following day, especially if I had to face a full work session. Sometimes I used to think I'd rather have settled for the original cold/flu symptoms.

However, I can confirm the water-cure actually does work ... well, at least it always did for me ...

Well drinking water hasn't cured me yet, but I agree about the side effects However I've visited the doc at last and have to fetch my antibiotics and Linctus later today, as over two weeks of very sore throat and cough have worn me out.

[vinteuil]

Sorry to be a really miserable party pooper yet again but I've never felt better and haven't had a proper head cold or flu since since way back during the last millennium, sometime around 1998.

scotty - you are doubtless under the particular care of St Blaise.

If all else fails, his candles are said to be a sovereign remedy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing_of_the_Throats

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

drinking a lot more wtaer is usually a good idea whether or not you have a head cold ... as is a daily dose of aspirin ....

i know about absorption etc but i have a serious problem about putting things in me bum to sort out my head ....

garlic is good, but eaten in largish quantities is my advice ...

despite all such remedies nostrums and ill advised practices the thing about head colds is their utter implacability, they continue .... and like mine this morning get worse from time to time with no rhyme nor reason ... and great footie last night, some very nice jazz this am and the good humour and bonhomie of da bored are all to no avail ...

achooo sniffle etc etc ....

[Ferretfancy]

scotty - you are doubtless under the particular care of St Blaise.

If all else fails, his candles are said to be a sovereign remedy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing_of_the_Throats

Judging by scotty's recent debating difficulties, I rather assume that he's under the particular care of St Jude !