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

I seem to remember being fed cod liver oil and haliborange as a kid, Mother swore by these, wouldn't let me out the door till i had taken them, and stuck ma tongue oot to prove it. Do remember getting these things or similar??

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

"I seem to remember being fed cod liver oil and haliborange as a kid, Mother swore by these, wouldn't let me out the door till i had taken them, and stuck ma tongue oot to prove it. Do remember getting these things or similar?? "
Gentian Violet.

milk of magnesia.

Germolene

Banana flavoured amoxicillan.

vicks vapo rub

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By *vbride1963TV/TS
over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

Calamine lotion for spots and skin irritation . Making a poultice to bring the poison out a wound .

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

Nothing really, I don't remember being that sick as a kid

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

Lucozade,tasted different back then.Them were the days glass of Lucozade and a kick up the arse cured all ails

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

Vicks vapo rub, benylin and calamine lotion, always worked a treat when we were kids x

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By *jezee1000Man
over a year ago

perth

You got lucozade only when you were Ill .

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By *exicolaMan
over a year ago

West Lothian

TCP

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By *uietbloke67Man
over a year ago

outside your bedroom window ;-)

Lemon juice, boiling water and a towel over your head...steam your face break the sinuses up..

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By *uietbloke67Man
over a year ago

outside your bedroom window ;-)

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By *tew008Man
over a year ago

edinburgh

"TCP "

I got TCP for everything

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

Kaolin & Morphine

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By *ornyhappyCouple
over a year ago

perth

"Lucozade,tasted different back then.Them were the days glass of Lucozade and a kick up the arse cured all ails

& lucozade was only sold in the chemist's shop and was wrapped in orange cellophane film!

Proper sticky pink Germolene, out the little metal tin, got smeared onto cuts & grazes.

My granny would rub Vicks on my chest at the first sign of a cough or sniffle. Sore throats would involve gargling with TCP (and subsequently total loss of all taste for several days) which was also liberally dabbed onto wounds/spots/bites/stings.

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

Lucozade and a detol bath lol

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By *he Regina PhalangeWoman
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

If I needed paracetamol my mum would crush the tablet between two spoons and mix it with jam...it was a kinda disgusting

Thank god for Calpol

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

"If I needed paracetamol my mum would crush the tablet between two spoons and mix it with jam...it was a kinda disgusting

Thank god for Calpol

Ah forgot about calpol , think they do diff flavours now?

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By *he Regina PhalangeWoman
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

"If I needed paracetamol my mum would crush the tablet between two spoons and mix it with jam...it was a kinda disgusting

Thank god for Calpol

Ah forgot about calpol , think they do diff flavours now?"

They never had calpol when I was a kid

My wee people....although bigger.....still want calpol when they are ill, opposed to taking pills.

Always strawberry flavour I get.

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By *sa and HarryCouple
over a year ago

motherwell

"Vicks vapo rub, benylin and calamine lotion, always worked a treat when we were kids x"
Benylin and Codeine cured everything until the Codeine was removed due to Junkies getting addicted to it.

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

Lucozade (bottle wrapped in the orange wrap)

Magic cream (germaline cream)

And shouting "nowt wrong with ya"

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By *ornyhappyCouple
over a year ago

perth

Ooh, forgot about soluble Disprin. If mum resorted to that I knew I must be ill!

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

milk of magnesia.

Germolene

Banana flavoured amoxicillan.

vicks vapo rub

You would be surprised what other uses vicks is great for

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

Cabbage juice

Will rid your body of all and any toxins

Leaves Also great for boobs when nursing

Onions

Also good for removing toxins out the body eat a raw onion for a sore throat and put one in your sock at bedtime to draw out the nasties

Iodine

Cute and scrapes

Callomine lotion

Spots, heat rash, prickly heat

TCP/vinegar/toothpaste

Stings

Amoxycillin

The cure all go to antibiotic

Augmentin liquid

When the amoxicillin wasn’t going to quite cut it this orange syrup mmmmm

Benylin drowsy/medised

When you couldn’t get a wean to sleep but also good for coughs, runny noses etc

Slap on the arse

To avoid future recurrence of accidents that couldn’t have been prevented

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By *uietbloke67Man
over a year ago

outside your bedroom window ;-)

Elderado Wine

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

"TCP

I got TCP for everything

Me too

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

syrup of figs

That nasty smelling nit shampoo lol

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By *ighlander80884Man
over a year ago

Inverness

Balls of butter rolled in sugar.

Cant renember what was wrong with me when i was given it to eat

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

"Elderado Wine "
Ahh the cure for all ills

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

"Balls of butter rolled in sugar.

Cant renember what was wrong with me when i was given it to eat

Let's hope it wasn't high cholesterol and diabetes!

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By *lderguy4uMan
over a year ago

wirral

Sugar and soap poultice

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By *looboyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Yer maw digging out splinters in yer hand with her biggest sewing needle, then smothering it in TCP. Oooyah.

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By *andy_FraserTV/TS
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Askit and Beechams Powders.

They fixed all ailments according to my parents.

Mandy

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By *4Fun11Woman
over a year ago

Glasgow

My mum used to give us a hot toddy when we weren’t feeling well.

I couldn’t stand the smell and I hated whisky.

And I remember she used to apply a poultice to the skin to help relieve inflammation and draw out poison.

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By *utdooryoneMan
over a year ago

Over there

milk of magnesia.

*bouwf*

That's a memory I would rather not remember.

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By *illnatMan
over a year ago

wherever i need to be

Whiskey for teething (I shit you not -

) thats when gripe water was about 90% alcohol. Really wonder why I like the stuff now?

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

"Kaolin & Morphine "

I dear God that stuff was awful but cured the dodgy belly right enough

Sick in our house was a bottle of Lucozade, peeling off its shiny orange wrapper and duvet day

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

Cod liver oil. A spoonful before bed. I still take it but in tablet form these days.x

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

The poultice kne with soap and sugar, it fair drwes out the infection.

When I started my periods had bad pains and Mum gave me a "Ponstan" painkiller. Had no pain after that. Wish they still prescribed them, they were great painkillers.

LucoAde with wrapper was fab and the stuff nowadays doesn't taste the same.

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

Magnesium Sulphate for skelves and drawing out poison.

Ashton & Parsons teething powders, good for calming mild anxieties such as pre exam nerves.

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By *bostCouple
over a year ago

glasgow

"Askit and Beechams Powders.

They fixed all ailments according to my parents.

Mandy"

I remember being in a chippy in town one night rather worse for wear.

The guy in front of me is asking the server what that wee blue and white box was that was on the middle shelf beside the Mars bars?

She says Askit.

So the boy shouts ‘hey wee blue and white box, what are you?’

I nearly wet myself laughing and the server refused to serve the boy.

Cool story etc etc

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By *cottishMrsWoman
over a year ago

Wishaw

Sudocrem for everything lol. Same in my house now lol xx

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

"Sudocrem for everything lol. Same in my house now lol xx"
I keep a little tub in the car for emergencys

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By *sasimpleMan
over a year ago

D & G

Buttercup Syrup.

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By *atindollTV/TS
over a year ago

edinburgh

Chesty benylyn...which is a not bad porn name

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By *nRMan
over a year ago

central Scotland

Fergusade when ill. Cured everything haha

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