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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Has anyone any idea how to get get rid of a cold?

The kids have had them between them for 2 weeks.

Really thought i had got away with it.... no such chance.

Throats sore and nose is just starting

Seeing play friends on Friday and don't want the dry peeling nose look

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Ive only had one cold in over 10 years, coincides with me having the flu jab. Mind you the one i had im convinced was pneumonia.

Put an onion under your bed and dose yourself up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whack in the beechams flu plus, always works for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ibuprofen works for sore throats, takes down inflammation. Sudocreme on your nose will help with dryness, though you will have to limit that to when you are alone, as it can be most unattractive

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

If i was you i would just hibernate. But then it doesnt take much for me to want to hibernate

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"If i was you i would just hibernate. But then it doesnt take much for me to want to hibernate"

Lol wish i was a tortoise too xxx

Last time we met up i was peeling from a sunn bed gone wrong would like them to believe my skin does stay on this time

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

There is a reason I refer to children as plague rats! They will find cold strains you have never been exposed to, bring them home as a little gift, and then do it again at least once a month.

You can mask the symptoms with drugs but you can't get around the rime frame for a cold. Only another 200 strains for you to experience

Get better soon. (Caring face smiley)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wish there was as I am sick of mine, and I have the flu jab every year!

Also wishes I could go into deep hibernation right now!

Hope you feel better soon, and I tend to put vaseline on my nose to save me looking like Rudolph, also alternate between ibuprofen and paracetamol every 4 hours.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I feel like bloody crap too

. Only had this cold 6 weeks ago and it's back with vengeance the cough is the worst!!! Beechams max all the way with a spot of day/night nurse for good measure.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks guys maybe we all need to snuggle down xxx hope everyone gets better x

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Some facts about the common cold:

1. Women get more colds than men. Not because we are women but because we tend to have more interaction with children.

2. Children get between seven and ten colds a year. They are plague rats (lovely but infectious).

3. The blocked nose is swelling of erectile tissue... I tried to make that sound sexy but I think I may have failed.

4. Washing your hands is really your best defence. You can catch colds through your eyes, mouth and nose, but not through kissing.

5. It takes 48 hours for the cold to appear. By then you may have forgotten where you picked it up.

6. The older you get the fewer colds you catch. By the time you are in your 70s you will have experienced about 200 colds and so will be near the end of the number of strains out there to catch.

7. You never catch the same cold twice.

8. Keep hydrated and treat the symptoms and just let it run its course.

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By *atinaBabeCouple
over a year ago

casa caliente

well been long time i had cold,maybe becoz i eat alot garlic and onions cook in my food

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By *exki11enWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"well been long time i had cold,maybe becoz i eat alot garlic and onions cook in my food

We find this too. Also chilli (very high in vit C)

I've had 2 colds in the last 5 years and I put it down entirely to my diet including lots of the above.

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By *ap AdgeMan
over a year ago

Wirral

cod liver oil extra layer of clothing

wash hands and a hot bath then wrap up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Touches head nearest bit of wood can't remember when I had a cold last

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fresh hot water lemon honey and ginger and steam it out olbus oilor vics in a bowl of steaming boiling water head over with a towel and sweat it out x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *un KnightsCouple
over a year ago

South West

Colds, that's nothing what about man flu, lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And remember germs do not like a wet throat so plenty of lubrication required x

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By *picyspiregirlCouple
over a year ago

chesterfield

The hottest chillis/chilli sauce that you can handle.

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

Get my flu vacination on saturday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Keep off any type of cold drink. Always drink plenty but make sure you balance the drinks between luke warm and hot.

As stated above eat onions, garlic, vegetables... thick homemade soups if your appetite has gone walkabout...

Oh!! Not forgetting a hot toddy every evening

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By *ornyHorwichCpl aka HHCCouple
over a year ago

horwich

Big bottle of Yates' Aussie White Wine (see sherry aisle in supermarket), make blobs with hot water, lemon and sugar to taste. Do the whole bottle in, one after the other then go to bed. You will sweat like a pig, sleep like a baby and the cold will be gone in the morning. Only recommended on Fri / Sat night.Works every time

Scarlett

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Big bottle of Yates' Aussie White Wine (see sherry aisle in supermarket), make blobs with hot water, lemon and sugar to taste. Do the whole bottle in, one after the other then go to bed. You will sweat like a pig, sleep like a baby and the cold will be gone in the morning. Only recommended on Fri / Sat night.Works every time

lol i thought they had stop doing that. swore by that in the late 80s. there was only one local near me that did blobs. loved them when had a cold cleared em straight away. also knocked u out when u went to step outside bump! lol

Scarlett"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

a bottle of southern comfort I swear by it....well after I've d*unk it I do....

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