General Chat

Too much information, David!!!!!

My Father used to close one nostril while snorting down the other, then he'd do
the same on the opposite side, then he'd snot down both.

Makes your eyes water, makes you stink of Vick.

A bit of Vick or Tiger Balm rubbed into the outside of your sinuses, under the eyes, works like dynamite at clearing the sinuses but is not as effective as is this salt pipe.

VICK rubbed on your throat and chest decongests and allows you to sleep.

I think that salt inhaler must be one of the best things I have ever bought.

It has kept my sinuses pretty dry and let me get a nights sleep through this cold, without the need to take medication.

Would definitely recommend it to others.

maggie ............ I no longer drink "real" tea, got fed up with mint tea, so I go with hot water at breakfast, and with other meals if we're travelling instead of the cold water they offer here.

I have coffee once a day, and then it's a soy latte ............. I can't drink black coffee, and I can't have milk. Soy curdles when you put it into hot coffee, so it's the soy latte, by default!

Sylvia - I only drink boiled water, with 'additives' such as tea or coffee, and milk! :-D

The water I drink comes from Kielder Reservoir but if you travel beyon the area it serves tap water has a very different taste.
I recall a stay at Warwick, I couldn't drink it. But it suited the locals

Fluoride is a good addition to the water supply, if it is not naturally occurring in the local water.

I grew up in an area where there was naturally occurring fluoride, and I think that is why I have very good teeth, even though I did not have the best diet in the world when growing up in WW2 and the few years after that.

I refuse to have fluoride treatment at the dentist as it makes me gag and almost throw up. I make sure that I use toothpaste that has fluoride in it, and still have almost all my teeth, albeit with a few fillings here and there.

I drink water out of the tap at home and also when we go out in Vancouver, but in most other places I drink only hot water, as I have found that my stomach easily gets upset when elsewhere. The simple matter of boiling the water makes a difference for me .......... if it doesn't, or if I want cold water, I give in and buy bottled water

Many generations ago many people drank beer because
the water had been boiled. I drink tap water, also use it to
make cups of tea. The only concern I have with it is if it
comes from the tap discoloured, then I just run the tap until it clears.
Another concern I had about the water, briefly since there's nothing
I could do about it, is our drinking water has fluoride added.

When my late FIL had a cold he's put Vick into a bowl of hot water
and breathe the vapours.

David ............

the Neti pot information that you gave wasn't really duff information .......... it's just that now we know that even tap water is not good for immune-compromised people, and that it is not good to snuff up into your mucous passages, or to wash out Neti pots or any such items.

We know now that all the filters, treatments, etc that are given to produce drinking water leave particles below a certain size in the water, and that some of those particles MAY cause problems.

Boiling water for 5 minutes is the simplest way to produce water safe for immune-compromised people and to use in Neti pots.

When I got a cough and sore throat, my mother used to buy a turnip, cut the top off and make a hollow in the flesh. Then she would put brown sugar, and I don't think anything else in there. Then leave it for a day, and there would be a sweet liquid forming the hollow.

I'd take a teaspoon of that at frequent intervals.


AnninG .... that sounds very like my Dad and his large raw onion! He would sit in front of the fire, with the onion on a plate and a knife, and cut pieces of it.

Fishermans Friend is a good help for quick clearing of the choking type of catarrh

I seem to remember that for a sore throat my dad would cook up onion and brown sugar and there must have been a liquid, I can remember the nice smell. another cure he used for a sore throat was a spoonful of butter mixed with sugar. I had to let it melt down my throat. I suppose the theory was it greased it and helped swallow.

My late father in law used to cut up and eat raw onion and not red ones either.

Donkeys years ago, when I was young, my Father worked outdoors in all

weathers for Wimpey. When he got a cold it was a steamer, but he had his own

solution. He'd take a strip of Aspro (two at a time) and Beechams Powder. It worked.

He's have many a hawk to get it off his chest

Tomorrow, the plan is to visit my friend. Locally, we have a company, Turners, who make sumptuous pies. The only veggie one is asparagus and mushroom and I was going to buy one to take with me as a treat, along with a pie for her and one for OH.

We only very rarely eat them and they are something to look forward to.

When OH brought my doggy bags home last night, they contained trifle, veg, mash and, guess what, a Turners mushroom and asparagus pie!

Annx I think in the days we were working it was not acceptable to stay home with a cold, it would have been frowned on. I do wish now we are more informed about these things that people with colds would stay off public transport or at the very least use a hanky when the cough/sneeze. I did see a school saying parents were not to keep children home if they had a cold and we all know they are the ones that spread germs in the first place because of close contact.

Sorry Sharron I digressed. Sorry you are feeling grotty (snotty!!), I hope that it will soon clear and that you will feel better soon. Frustrating that it was just at the time you had things to go to.

Sorry Sharron, I'd no intention of giving you duff information :-D <3

That gadget's name, neti pot had me smiling.

The Indians who practice Yoga as a form of hygiene with the breathing

exercises and sinuses just use what clean water is available.

I have the devil's own job to get antibiotics for throat/chest infections since my old doctor retired. Don't get me wrong as I well understand the reasons for not taking them, but I'm prone to getting bacterial infections set in following a virus. In the past I would get these infections, often with a cold, be really ill and be off work for over 2 months and eventually need 2 courses of antibiotics to clear them. My GP realised what was happening and told me to come for antibiotics in future as soon as I knew it wasn't a simple cold. Now it's different! Last time I had a bad throat and no voice for over a month and the doctor wanted to send me to ENT for investigation. This was despite explaining my history. I sheepishly asked if there was a alternative and she said well we could try antibiotics but you must come back after the weekend (it was Friday) if no better. Of course after 2 days antibiotics I was feeling 100% better. :-)
I used to feel really upset and worried when people came to work with streaming colds and coughs. Some would even brag about having so little time off sick, but they never thought about those they spread it to, or those that could be badly affected like me and those with asthma.

Hope you soon feel better Sharron. :-)

I mentioned the rock salt inhaler.

It is a pot with a spout thing on top where you breathe in through the salt crystals in the bottom and breathe out through your nose.

It has helped with my sinuses and coughing lately and now it is helping me keep the snot at bay.