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Hello again. I just got back from a refreshing, high-energy trip to Munich. Unfortunately, the whole time I was there I had a sore throat, cough, and a bit of a headache. Now I’m trying to get back to work and NOT get sick. I’m writing this while working on cooking a vegetable stew, which will both stretch out my food budget for a week and probably help my body fight whatever it is it’s fighting (though I hope it’s not pollen).
So my question is, what do you do when you’re feeling sick? Do you take cough suppressants and cold medicine and all that jazz? I really really hate medicine, so I have resisted all my life, but recently I’ve developed a fondness for (real) sudafed. Which I don’t have much of and the pharmacies are closed. I did give in and buy some throat lozenges/cough suppressant with menthol for my cough and sore throat. However, I’m trying to find things around the apartment to use to see if they help me feel better.
Things I’m doing/taking:
- Echinacea 3x/day
- Cold care tea with honey
- Putting honey in everything I can think of that it won’t taste weird in
- I learned that there are people who drink apple cider vinegar, so I decided I might as well try it. (some vinegar in a glass of water before eating.)
- And of course gargling salt water and snorting it up my nose as often as possible. Just to keep things moving in them thar nasal passages. I really want a neti pot, which are SO easy to find here, but I don’t want to buy things here that I can easily get in the U.S.
- Drinking lots of water and tea and eating soup!
What else is there to do from things I might have around the house?
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I don’t get sick very often – even living in the dorms this year, I’ve only really gotten sick once. And then I felt like @#$% and I couldn’t talk. I slept a lot and drank lots of Orange Juice. All that Vitamin C.
Drink OJ and get lots of rest.
Getting lots of rest just makes me worse! What is wrong with me!! Argh!
Awww you’re still sick? That sounds like no fun =/
I was just sick yesterday and I tend to try to stay away from medicine too (even though I love nyquil! Haha)
What I usually do is drink lots of water and warm lemon water… and I try to get lots of sleep. My immune system is pretty good (I rarely get sick) so it’s usually when I’m absolutely exhausted that it malfunctions so I always know what to do… just get more sleep.
Anyway, I hope you’ll feel better soon!
Hope you’re feeling better. My mom swears by tea with honey and lemon (kind of gross, as I remember it, but seems to work) and orange juice. A lot of medicines in Germany (I don’t know about Austria) are plant-based — and effective — if that makes you feel any better.