Head Cold

[EdgeleyRob]

I thought the pneumonia preventive was incorporated into the general flu jab now? That's what I told the surgery last year, anyway.

Is it my imagination, or have common colds suddenly become much more proliferous? The one I'm suffering right now is my sixth this year - and the third since October!

I was told that the flu jab can help prevent pneumonia (the doc tried to explain how,but it went over my head)but the Pneumococcal vaccine is recommended for heart failure patients

[Nick Armstrong]

My late father never seemed to catch a cold, or anything else for that matter. Indeed he had flu once in his long life (he lived to the age of 94) and caught a mild sniffle no more than two or three times at the very most. The rest of the family and all those around him might all be prostrate with bugs and viruses galore, and of course we all were countless times, but my father just never was. He was just never ill. Nobody could understand it but it's perfectly true. The only time he was ill in any serious way was the night he died.

Gawd bless him and send me a similar destiny!

[Petrushka]

Singers have to be very careful about catching a cold as it can have career-threatening implications. It's true that there can be the odd cancellation for this reason but not as often as one would think. In my experience when having a cold, the voice suffers for weeks afterwards, long after the cold has gone, Anyone know of tricks of the trade singers employ to avoid getting a cold in the first place?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm now paying the price of watching too many films online outdoors recently. I've got a streaming cold.

[ahinton]

I'm now paying the price of watching too many films online outdoors recently. I've got a streaming cold.

!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm now paying the price of watching too many films online outdoors recently. I've got a streaming cold.

It took a couple of reads....!

Daft ha'porth!

[P. G. Tipps]

Singers have to be very careful about catching a cold as it can have career-threatening implications. It's true that there can be the odd cancellation for this reason but not as often as one would think. In my experience when having a cold, the voice suffers for weeks afterwards, long after the cold has gone, Anyone know of tricks of the trade singers employ to avoid getting a cold in the first place?

Not sure about singers but the best plan for the rest of us is simply to avoid other people like the veritable plague ...

When I was working for a pittance I regularly contracted about four colds a year on average. Since I retired some years ago, and now, I understand, a filthy-rich millionaire as a consequence, I've had one single cold which I have simply put down to rather unadvisedly and somewhat adventurously heading to Lidl for the household weekly shop instead of the usual Waitrose.

So steer well clear of the wretched working proletariat, folks!

[BBMmk2]

I always say a hot toddy. No stinting on the whisky either!! Mind you at the moment catching a bug or anything would be the last thing I need. It be straight don to a & E for me, with IV antebiotics!!

[teamsaint]

I always say a hot toddy. No stinting on the whisky either!! Mind you at the moment catching a bug or anything would be the last thing I need. It be straight don to a & E for me, with IV antebiotics!!

yep. look after yourself BBM.

maybe one of these?

https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/2900/benny-and-hot

Good story behind this , still v popular in Burnley I understand.

[Barbirollians]

I have a right stinker of a cold at the moment - not pleasant managed to get through last winter without one !

[Pulcinella]

yep. look after yourself BBM.

maybe one of these?

https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/2900/benny-and-hot

Good story behind this , still v popular in Burnley I understand.

That sounds a good way to use up yet another bottle from the store cupboard that we don't want to transport to York, though I guess it (the bottle) would be welcome in Burnley if we made a diversion on the way!

[Serial_Apologist]

I have a right stinker of a cold at the moment - not pleasant managed to get through last winter without one !

I'm on my sixth cold this year - actually my third since September! This one's been more like flu than the usual - impossible of course, given that I had the jab midway through October!

In my case I put the causes down to giving up smoking 3 years ago - prior to which I would maybe get one cold every 2-3 years and be over with it in 3 days - and to frequent travel by Overground, whose through coaches sweep the air conditioning in concentrated form from front to back, carrying any bugs being emitted to any duck, sitting or standing, along the way.

[Dave2002]

Thought I'd escaped until a few days ago, despite having been long distances to far away places on planes, and also on trains and buses in the UK and a weekend in Liverpool. Then I got a wretched cold with mucous pouring out of my nostrils like water down Niagara Falls. Not too painful, but a right nuisance, and head feels fuzzier than usual too - no comments please!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well - sympathetic comments allowed, I hope, Dave? Hope it clears up very quickly; I only started to feel more lively yesterday morning after a fortnight of uncontrollable coughing and a fever that was - well; "inconvenient"! Even now, my cough still punctuates my breathing (and it feels like I've cracked a rib when I do so - I haven't: pressure on them from outside isn't painful) and I've needed more recourse to my blue inhaler this past fortnight than in the whole two years before. Bleaacccchhh! Bleuuugggghhhh!

[Pulcinella]

Thought I'd escaped until a few days ago, despite having been long distances to far away places on planes, and also on trains and buses in the UK and a weekend in Liverpool. Then I got a wretched cold with mucous pouring out of my nostrils like water down Niagara Falls. Not too painful, but a right nuisance, and head feels fuzzier than usual too - no comments please!

As far as I know, Liverpool is still in the UK (even though the people there voted Remain!).