Subject: Hmm..
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Posted on: 2009-04-21 01:00:00 UTC
Get lots of sleep. That's very important. Also, blow your nose frequently, don't just snuffle it back. Sniffing it back makes phlegm in your lungs, and it makes you cough a lot. Don't get too cold, because even if being cold doesn't cause sickness, it lowers your immune system.
If you can get your hands on Cold-Eze lozenges, those are a huge help, and may cut the overall sickness short.
Does anybody know any cold remedies?
My headvoices would like to add that they whapped me for that deliberate misinterpretation, and that they advise you to lie around and read.
Or a sure-fire way to ease the symptoms at least.
Step one: the Hot Toddy. Get a mug, preferably not too big. Start with a triple whiskey. Throw in a teabag (normal black tea; none of this fancy herbal bollocks). Top up with boiling water, and add lemon juice and a big dollop of honey to taste. Stir well, and drink.
Step two (optional): a very large joint.
Step two works by making you so spaced out and sleepy you don't realise you're ill. Can be combined with a hot bath or snuggling under a duvet in front of a fire for optimum relaxing effect. Step one is similar, except it works by getting you drunk, and is not recommended in the bath. And if you don't want to get drunk, go with a single shot of whiskey, and it'll take the edge off the ache and soothe your throat.
These won't work for him... He goes to my school. I have three classes with him. I know for a fact he's a high-school freshman. (Dragonmage, who is sitting next to me, would like to add that she knows this too.)
What does though is the inability to get hold of the required ingredients through legal means.
High school freshman is a bit young though, I think. How old is that again?
Fourteen, I believe - they have four years of high school ending at 18, so it'd be equivalent to year 10. Which is pretty much standard age to begin drinking, at least in this country.
Of course, that whole ID thing might be an issue. I'm bloody glad I grew up before they started IDing you if you look under 25. And that they tend to let you off if you laugh at the absurdity of it, because I still get IDed occasionally.
First bleepka, now whiskey as a cold cure?
HQ has an AA division, I hope?
I think it's more just the English. Our reputation as drunken hooligans is well deserved, after all. And whiskey for cold symptoms is as old as the hills.
Anyway, it could have been worse. Be thankful I decided against suggesting "step three: ketamine - this horse tranquiliser will not only take away the pain but will also send your mind on a highly distracting and convoluted journey to another dimension [the management will not be held responsible if the dimension in question is the seventh circle of hell and the time spent therein an eternity]. Also not recommended in the bath".
("RW" being "Real World")
The Flowers wouldn't bother with AA; if drinking helps us do our jobs and stay sane, they'll hand out the liquor free. That said, it doesn't reflect real life; Agent Sedri knocks back Bleepka as needed, but I hate drinking.
...except in Pads' case, I guess. (:P Pads)
I can go for whole hours at a time without a drink.
:P But to each their own.
Get lots of sleep. That's very important. Also, blow your nose frequently, don't just snuffle it back. Sniffing it back makes phlegm in your lungs, and it makes you cough a lot. Don't get too cold, because even if being cold doesn't cause sickness, it lowers your immune system.
If you can get your hands on Cold-Eze lozenges, those are a huge help, and may cut the overall sickness short.
*goes off to consult her tomes of herbal lore*
It'll make it go away faster, at least.
Chew Winterfresh gum,or any other variety of spearmint.
The oils will clear your sinus'.