THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

ariarnia

I'd recommend stocking up on a 4 pack of lucozade (or generic own label 'sports drink'). OH has repeatedly told people who want to buy the various cold and flu/rehydration type solution things that they're wasting their money.

lucozade and paracetamol are the best combo for most viral infections because the lucozade has caffeine sugar electrolytes and water, the paracetamol is a painkiller and good for fevers. In combo the two are cheaper and more effective in most cases than 'lemsip'

pollyanna_26

ariarnia wrote: »

I'd recommend stocking up on a 4 pack of lucozade (or generic own label 'sports drink'). OH has repeatedly told people who want to buy the various cold and flu/rehydration type solution things that they're wasting their money.

lucozade and paracetamol are the best combo for most viral infections because the lucozade has caffeine sugar electrolytes and water, the paracetamol is a painkiller and good for fevers. In combo the two are cheaper and more effective in most cases than 'lemsip'

You posted this last year on another thread and it's an effective and moneysaving tip . I've used it many times and passed the word on to others .
You were also the poster with the duvet cover trick and we all still remember that .
polly

ancientofdays

Mary, I believe Asda are offering the flu jab for a fiver. I need to book mine at the surgery, I get a free one as I'm over 65, and did not get flu last year. I have had flu in the past, but am more prone to sinus infections. I find that drinking lemon and honey or lemon and ginger is comforting. If I can avoid antibiotics, I will, they might work and I'll be forever grateful for their existence following a spell in hospital on intravenous antibiotics for an infected surgery wound but in normal circumstances I can do without the stomach upset and thrush. Let alone the one that I'm allergic to. I can't use Olbas stuff, it makes me retch.

I had been avoiding the flu jab what with the imminent end of the world, bit like Grey Queen's approach to washing up.

maryb

Oh thank you A of D, there's an Asda quite close so I'll go there - I wouldn't get club card points at Mr T anyway:D

Wednesday2000

ariarnia wrote: »

I'd recommend stocking up on a 4 pack of lucozade (or generic own label 'sports drink'). OH has repeatedly told people who want to buy the various cold and flu/rehydration type solution things that they're wasting their money.

lucozade and paracetamol are the best combo for most viral infections because the lucozade has caffeine sugar electrolytes and water, the paracetamol is a painkiller and good for fevers. In combo the two are cheaper and more effective in most cases than 'lemsip'

Interesting, thanks for the tip. I must get in some Lucozade for the winter.

ivyleaf

Thanks for the tip about the lucozade, ariarnia! I shall get some.

I have been lucky regarding flu. Haven't had it since I was about eight, and didn't catch it when nursing both DDs through it in their early teens. I wondered if I'd become immune, but the doc said I've just been very lucky. We both get a flu jab these days, so will book those today.

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

GQ I've had flu so many times I can't count it and twice was quite seriously ill. Three times went to pneumonia, the other half a million times went to a chest infection. I HATE flu and right now am stocking up on everything I can think of for winter, to save us having to go out to shops.

That's exactly what I do - anything storecupboardy, I buy oodles and oodles of it, so that when I *do* need to shop, there's less of it.

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

You posted this last year on another thread and it's an effective and moneysaving tip . I've used it many times and passed the word on to others .
You were also the poster with the duvet cover trick and we all still remember that .
polly

I don't know about the duvet cover trick please repeat

pollyanna_26

Karmacat wrote: »

That's exactly what I do - anything storecupboardy, I buy oodles and oodles of it, so that when I *do* need to shop, there's less of it.


I don't know about the duvet cover trick please repeat

OS Ways and Poor Health Page 1 Post 4.
With thanks once more to Ariarnia .
polly

ivyleaf

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

OS Ways and Poor Health Page 1 Post 4.
With thanks once more to Ariarnia .
polly

I have tried this but I can't get it to work for me at all! My usual method is to start with the duvet cover inside out, grasp the top corners of the duvet through the top corners of the cover, and ease/shake it down so that I'm pulling the cover onto the duvet as opposed to pushing the duvet into the cover.

Karmacat

Okeydokey, thanks