Sore Throat
Live Forever 17 Oct 2007
Anyone else have any suggestions?
Matt 17 Oct 2007
niner 18 Oct 2007
christines 24 Oct 2007
Grail 24 Oct 2007
gargling salted water, or aspro clear can help too, as well as paracetamol.
niner 25 Oct 2007
Well, it's a diuretic, though not a particularly strong one.i thought the caffeine dehydration thing was a myth?
Live Forever 25 Oct 2007
wayside 25 Oct 2007
Grail 25 Oct 2007
Well, it's a diuretic, though not a particularly strong one.
True, but with the amounts of tea some people drink around here...
Did anyone simply mention sucking on cheap throat lozenges?
Once you have a cold (assuming it is a cold and not a bacterial infection), you can't really do anything but treat the symptoms (i.e. cold and flu tablets). Every cold is different, so duration and severity will vary anyway.
Matt 25 Oct 2007
Garlic 'prevents common cold'
...People who take a garlic supplement each day are far less likely to fall victim to the common cold than those who do not, research suggests. Although garlic has been traditionally used to fight off and treat the symptoms of the common cold, this is the first hard evidence of its medicinal properties...
The study found that a daily garlic supplement containing allicin, a purified component of garlic considered to be the major biologically active agent produced by the plant, reduced the risk of catching a cold by more than half.
It also found that allicin-containing garlic supplements were effective in treating infections caused by the hospital superbug, MRSA.
Experiment
A total of 146 volunteers took part in the experiment, which was led by Peter Josling, director the Garlic Centre in East Sussex.
Half took one capsule of Allimax, an allicin-containing garlic supplement, each day, while the remaining volunteers were given a placebo.
Over a 90-day period during the winter when most colds occur, just 24 colds were recorded among those taking the supplement, compared to 65 amongst those taking the placebo.
The study also found that those taking the supplement who did catch a cold were more likely to make a speedier recovery than those taking the placebo and the chances of re-infection following a cold were significantly reduced.
http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/1575505.stm
lucid 26 Oct 2007
Mono is another option and it has similar symptoms to strep. Or it could be the flu which frequently has congestion associated with it.
Zinc and salt are good though.
Edited by lucid, 26 October 2007 - 01:03 AM.
cyborgdreamer 26 Oct 2007
Live Forever 26 Oct 2007
Luckily I have never experienced one of those. I have burned my tongue before (and the roof of my mouth) and that certainly wasn't any fun. :(I also use it to numb those painful swollen tastebuds you sometimes get for no reason.
cyborgdreamer 26 Oct 2007
Luckily I have never experienced one of those. I have burned my tongue before (and the roof of my mouth) and that certainly wasn't any fun. :(I also use it to numb those painful swollen tastebuds you sometimes get for no reason.
That's weird; I thought every one got those things from time to time.
hulahoop 01 Nov 2007
sentinel 02 Nov 2007
It was (finally) suggested that I gargle soluable aspirin (asproclear or similar) but don't swallow so it doesn't interfere with your other Ibuprofen/Paramacetamol (acetaminophen)etc for keeping your temperature under control.
Natural remedies are great but sometimes you just have to hit these things with a hammer.
quarter 02 Nov 2007
eternaltraveler 02 Nov 2007
Well, as to actual sickness... I had a strep infection a while ago. I tried using lots of zinc and salt gargle. The salt gargle definitely helped with the symptoms, but I couldn't beat the infection. The ticket for that is penicillin. If you have a very sore throat without conjestion i would go get a strep test.
Mono is another option and it has similar symptoms to strep. Or it could be the flu which frequently has congestion associated with it.
Zinc and salt are good though.
if you have strep throat you need antibiotics or you risk rheumatic heart disease and glomerulonephritis, though the later is more common with streptococcal skin infections.
rheumatic heart disease is not an infection of the heart, but an immune attack of the heart because antigens present on strep. pyogenes (that cause strep throat), are similar to proteins found on cardiac myocytes, and generate cross reacting antibodies.
eternaltraveler 02 Nov 2007
i thought the caffeine dehydration thing was a myth?
it is a myth
umm, no it isn't
caffeine is a diuretic. The affect might shrink over time as a tolerance to caffeine develops, and green tea doesn't have much caffeine so you'd be fine there.
Shepard 02 Nov 2007
i thought the caffeine dehydration thing was a myth?
it is a myth
umm, no it isn't
caffeine is a diuretic. The affect might shrink over time as a tolerance to caffeine develops, and green tea doesn't have much caffeine so you'd be fine there.
I think he was probably refering to caffeine in something like coffee or tea. That the diuretic effect isn't strong enough to overcome the hydration effect of the liquid.
eternaltraveler 02 Nov 2007
But yes. There are people I know who would be dead if coffee actually dehydrated them more than the volume they drank from the coffee.
kurdishfella 17 Dec 2022
infection starts in throat via tickle for me and works it way up my ear then brain and I get intense headache. Only way to prevent it is at least taking 1000mg of vitamin c 3 times a week spaced out. otherwise i also get depression.
Edited by kurdishfella, 17 December 2022 - 08:19 PM.