American Reacts to British Cold & Flu Remedies!

[@Pugjamin]

By far the most common medication for dealing with a cold in the U.K. is walking around, snuffling, muttering “urgh, FFS, wish this cold would piss off”

[@Justabitnosey]

Exactly what I've been doing. I'm a bit better today but now my daughter has it on her birthday.

[@Darrenski]

It always works for me, yes

[@adriangoodrich4306]

Indeed. Although, if you are a man, it is essential to tell every man and his dog who is prepared to listen how you are at death's door, how no-one has ever had a cold this bad, how it is "FIABN" (flu in all but name") and how you wish someone would just put you out of your misery. Then feel well enough to go down the pub the next day...

[@pauldirac808]

@@adriangoodrich4306you obviously haven’t met my wife .

[@crackpot148]

There are colds and then there are heavy colds. Anyone but the really vulnerable can coast through a cold but a heavy cold can be another matter. I have just suffered from a cold for the first time in decades. Feeling generally drained with only a slightly raised temperature, a combination of a blocked and constantly running nose, a productive cough, shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing when lying down. No, not influenza, hence no fever. Btw, pseudoephedrine (sudafed) does work as a decongestant, at least it did for me. Guaifenesin also works as an expectorant and that helped to shift the crap out of my lungs and throat too. Having had this cold with its symptoms and effects has taught me a lesson. I realise that in the past I have been lucky and I will never again dismiss a cold as something to be shrugged off as nothing.

[@stephenlee5929]

Most colds clear in 14 days, but if you take these remedies it can be as little as 2 weeks.

[@alysonhopkins2037]

Ha! Ha! Ha! 😂

[@Upemm]

Best comment 😂😂

[@revbenf6870]

Harsh haha!

[@alanmoss3603]

If you really dose yourself up you can clear a cold in a fortnight!

[@stephenlee5929]

@@alanmoss3603 He's American, I wasn't sure he would understand a fortnight.

[@Mary-i5c1m]

IN UK there are about 200 deaths each year from paracetamol poisoning. In USA there are about 100,000 incidents each year (didn't say how many died - but unless treatment is given quickly - possible liver transplant or death is the expected outcome) Paracetomal is sold in limited quantities in uk and in blister packs to make it harder to accidentally or intentionally overdose on it. Pouring tablets from a pot is quicker and easier than having to get each individual one out of a blister packet. Also, looking at a part-used blister pack - it is easier to estimate how many you have already had. Paracetomal causes a toxin to form in the liver. When taking the maximum dose as advised on the packet in UK, the liver copes with it and clears ghe toxin out. Taking more than the prescribed amount causes the toxin to build up in the liver and can increase to a level that causes liver failure within a few days. People don't recognise the symptons - if left or they don't get to the hospital for treatment in time, it can't be cured. Limiting the number of tablets in a packet and putting them in blister packets has contributed to the reduction in annual deaths due to overdose in UK by nearly one third. People also sometimes don't realise that they are doubling up on the dose because paracetomal is also an ingredient in so.e other over the counter medicine that they are taking at the same time. In UK medicine packets also come with an instructionand information leaflet inside the packet providing info., warnings and advice about possible side effects and the different level of concer and action to take applying to each one.

[@ChickenOfAwesome]

It's also about interrupting ideation - literally ANYTHING that slows you down, whether it's having to go to multiple shops to get enough or pop individual pills out of blister packs (which we pack almost all medication in in the UK) has been shown to be extremely effective in at least temporarily halting an attempt to harm yourself.

[@grangegorman34mikmik66]

Hot toddy - honey , whisky and a slice of lemon covered in hot water , sip like tea

[@dontrush4144]

Absolutely! This is my go-to trusty cold remedy, it's never let me down yet!

[@fayesouthall6604]

If you don’t drink alcohol, lemonade in a tea mug , decant into a pan to warm it up. Place 2 teaspoons of honey in the mug and pour hot lemonade over the honey, stir. Comforting and satisfying.

[@marylynne9104]

@@grangegorman34mikmik66 …and if it doesn’t cure your cold, at least you don’t care quite so much.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

I think this is very region specific but as kids we had "hot cockles", hot blackcurrant squash

[@lowriebean8140]

I add rum to a blackcurrant Lemsip or whisky to a lemon one to give more oomph to my toddies! 😆

[@GazGaryGazza]

There’s no such thing as a cure for the common cold, just things that may easy symptoms. Rest, sleep, warmth, time and plenty of fluids.

[@24magiccarrot]

Even if there was a cure for the common cold Big Pharma would never allow it to get to market, they make so much money from the over-the-counter products that it isn't in their interest to cure it and if someone did come up with a cure, the Big Pharma companies would buy the patent of them and bury the information as far away from human eyes as they could..

[@VickyAitch]

Calpol 😂😂 cow pool 😂😂😂

[@ChrisShelley-v2g]

That's when cows go to get milked.

[@Stuffed_Cat]

Was anyone else as amazed as I was at just how many images came up when he googled "Cow Pool"?

[@TasteTheD]

lemzim too haha

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

I want to see cow pool pictures now

[@letitiakearney2423]

I’ve always said sick not ill and we say capsule 💊 too. Chicken soup is the thing you’re recommended to have when sick. She gets so much wrong and we always say throwing up too.

[@Jeni10]

Capsules are a gel tube containing powder. Caplets are small tablets that are shaped like capsules for ease of swallowing. Tablets can be any permitted shape, most often round.

[@LearnTechnicalSketching-y1e]

Pills are spherical, but no longer common since big pharma put local pharmacists out of the business of making them. When I was young, a slang term for a small ball, such as a tennis ball, was "a Pill". The term has simply become generic in medicine terme. "Take the red capsule" just wouldn't have the same effect.

[@ratsters7]

Gotta love the captions! Children's liquid paracetamol is Calpol. Also, caplets and capsules are both equally available here, and they are physically different. I always buy the caplets as I find them easier to swallow.

[@Jennifer-dk1ni]

One thing I think she didn’t get from just reading ‘foods Brits eat when sick’ off of google, is that it depends on what kind of sickness it is. The toast thing is more likely to be for when you’re nauseous, along with possibly bread or crackers, basically anything dry and bland. Whereas the soup and hot drinks is for when you’re congested.

[@davidcronan4072]

One of the best "cold cures" I heard of was from a doctor. He said "Go to bed with a bottle of whisky and a candle. When in bed, light the candle and start drinking the whiskey. When you can see two candles then you have drunk enough, go to sleep and the next morning you will feel much better.

[@alexanderwiles2003]

Honestly, drinking whisky has unblocked my nose before so I would believe it

[@AlBarzUK]

Don’t forget to blow out the candle. You might wake up burning hot.

[@crimsonwizard2560]

It's wine for me lol.

[@ShaneH42]

If you see four candles you’re probably in a small hardware shop

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

I remember watching something recently where a guy says something like when he comes home from work he puts his hat on the bedpost, and drinks in bed til it's on the other post

[@pjdonnelly92]

Ideal body temp is between 36.1 to 37.9. With 37 median. Going 38c and above a fever over 40 is an emergency. Below 35c longer than 15 minutes is hypothermia. Source - I'm a UK nurse

[@Doverkin]

16:00 Here in the UK i like, heinz tomato soup with grated cheese melted into it with fresh bread n butter for dipping☺

[@primalengland]

I do it, but cheese sandwich instead of grated. Comfort food on steroids. I cut the cheese sandwich into soldiers because I’m a pedant.

[@Doverkin]

@primalengland soldiers with cheese sounds nice. I usually have soldiers with boiled eggs and a very thin layer of butter and marmite on them for dipping lol

[@Tidybitz]

​​@@primalengland ... I hadn't thought of cheese sandwich soldiers, yum yum, must have those next time I have tomato soup. Thanks for enlightening me. 😃

[@nolaj114]

I always seem to crave tomato soup when I am run down. And cheese on toast under the griller is food of the gods.

[@user-blob]

Second this.

[@MrAnno1366]

She's in the UK and still thinks buying medication from the USA is somehow cheaper. Paracetamol 50 pence a packet. What is she paying for that bulk amount in the US? She really hasn't figured things out yet. "I need 500 pills at a time 32 pills are not enough" That's her really showing her American side. In fact that's just such an American thing. Lets do everything in excess. We don't need moderation. We need everything supersized. Even our pills. This video really shows the mentality difference between US and UK and she's been living here for some time. Some things never change.

[@digidol52]

Yeah, so many details of English life have gone right over her head. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[@alexanderwiles2003]

​@digidol52 I like her videos and stuff but do wish he would react to some other people's vids on britian because she definitely can give some wrong impressions

[@janolaful]

Go to poundland you get 3 packs for £1 😊

[@letitiakearney2423]

@@digidol52yes she’s really very stupid and after ten years living here she is still so ignorant of our culture I wouldn’t recommend her at all as she is very cringe and uninformed. Who to hell did she marry in the UK as he must be as dim as her. Wish JJ would stop getting misinformation from her.

[@AtheistEve]

When the UK banned the jars of 50 tablets, they came in blister packs and the cost per tablet went up, like 300% overnight.

[@trevorveail]

As a kid when we had flu my maternal grandmother used to give us hot sweet milky tea laced with a big slug of Lambs darkk Navy rum. It sweated any illness out of you over night.We had this as young as 3 o4 years old.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Snap. My father was a matelot during WWII. He would line us up at the door & 'feed' us a desert spoonful of Lambs one hundred percent before we set off to walk to school on witheringly cold winter mornings. Goodness only knows what the teachers thought. p.s. None of us turned into alcoholics!

[@Seasidewave]

from the uk, i find the best thing to clear a congestion is menthol crystals! Put some in a bowl with hot water, put a towel over your head and inhale the steam, nothing more powerful to clear your sinuses

[@corringhamdepot4434]

A traditional cold remedy that your great grandma would have made, was a hot lemon and honey drink. The powder sachets are a modern substitute. Large doses of Vitamin C was a common folk remedy for colds. I used to take Contac capsules to dry up a cold or flu when I was still working.

[@Tony-c7z9t]

And a lot more expensive than home-made

[@dee2251]

My mother did it for us when we were children and I still do it. I love it. Plenty of honey and the zest of a couple of lemons. Add boiling water to let it steep and cool a little, before adding the juice of the lemons or the boiling water destroys the Vitamin C. Raspberry vinegar & olive oil was another. Also Malt extract & cod liver oil and Haliborange through the winter.

[@kayew5492]

My Gran (born 1912) used to smear my chest and back with goose grease and cover it with sheets of brown paper, then fasten one of my Granddad's stinky work socks around my throat with a safety pin for a cold. It was horrible. I'm very allergic to artificial sweeteners so lemsip is a no-no, but I do make hot lemon and honey with a slug of whisky in it. One of my boys asked me when they were growing up if that cured a cold, to which I replied, ''No, but it makes me feel better.''

[@corringhamdepot4434]

@@dee2251 I remember creosote lozenges to clear your chest. Creosote was a popular patent medicine, but now it is banned as a toxic wood treatment. For non-commercial users.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

@@dee2251 Malt extract, cod liver oil & Haliborange were provided by the the state as was a third of a pint of milk & a hot nutritious mid day meal when one reached school age. That was to ensure that future citizens were fit for national service but it ensured that more poor children survived to adult hood. Currently the trend is to lower life expectancy rates among the lower income families again. Never vote Tory whatever colour rosette they wear!

[@JFLATTERMANN]

Normal cold takes a week without meds and seven day with meds.😂

[@nolaj114]

When I got sick in Indonesia, I was given "jeruk panas" which is basically 50/50 freshly squeezed orange juice and hot water. It was really nice (their oranges taste a bit more like mandarins) and it seemed to help.

[@wulfgold]

GGL - "I live in fear of getting sick", she ain't a true Brit yet, that's the most American thing I've heard today. UK - can't buy too much Paracetomol in case you're trying to harm yourself, US - sells hollow points. Best decongestant I've found is chili sauce in a hot, savoury drink/thin soup/Bovril.

[@IanDarley]

I use a full spoon of Coleman's English mustard, keep it in your mouth until your eyes are watering and it blasts out your sinuses.

[@wulfgold]

@@IanDarley lol, jesus.

[@MisterChrisInTheUK]

@@IanDarley I'd call that 'The Nuclear Option', even though I love proper English mustard!

[@nessiferum6200]

Try a fair amount of white pepper in a drink or soup, it's very hot and has the added benefit of making a sore throat feel numb 🙂

[@urbanshadow777]

In Scotland we would say "Am no feelin well"

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

as a scotsman i would say "im no dying so im fine"

[@MrKDHay]

Or peely-wally

[@carriesherlock3920]

Night Nurse - brilliant stuff.

[@DianeJones-ex1oq]

Swear by it, got to be the green liquid though! Sleep like a baby after a dose of that 🤒

[@tonijones8646]

Vile tasting stuff. Can't take it 2 mins later it comes back up and taste twice as vile lol

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Honey & lemon in hot water is a very soothing drink when suffering from cold symptoms. The steam alone can help to decongest the nasal passages, lemon cuts through phlegm & the honey is a comfort food. mmmmmmmm. A little extra vitamin C can only help too.

[@Jeni10]

I’m an Aussie in my seventies. When I was a child, at the first sign of a cold, Mum would boil some water, add the juice of a lemon, a crushed Aspirin and some honey to sweeten the whole thing, then I would sit up in bed and sip it until it was all gone. She would repeat it as needed. Sometimes she used two spoons to crush an Aspirin or two and blend the powder with some honey until it formed a paste, which I would then eat. My colds were gone in two days. By the time I was an adult, there was a product called Lemsip, which was basically the same thing but seemed less effective. The best decongestant is Echinacea which tablets you can buy from your pharmacy or health food store. It requires some caution when taking them, because too many for too long can dehydrate you. So check the documentation from the packet.

[@MrWillyMrBrightside]

I really do think that Lemsip is mostly placebo, it's about convincing your mind that you're proactively doing something to cure your cold when it's mostly just a soothing hot drink, which isn't a bad thing! If it works it works

[@Chris-c7i8d]

Indeed. Lemsip is one of those things where you can buy the ingredients and make a superior version for way less than the manufactured product and it works better too

[@Masque54]

Ha! Yes, the old crushing the Aspro between two spoons then adding honey trick was used by my Mum here in NZ too! The honey never did much to disguise the bitter taste of the aspirin, but I just imagined how much worse it would be without it, so I went along with it anyway! 😄

[@Ghhft33]

Cow pool…! lol omg love it ……CALPOL.

[@thomasogden5301]

Great British Cold Remedy: The Hot Toddy. It consists of soluble paracetamol, a splash of whiskey or brandy, lemon juice and honey in a mug, topped up with hot water and all mixed together

[@speleokeir]

Chuck in some chopped ginger too. Alternatively add ginger wine and make it a whisky mac.

[@CyanideSunshines]

Lemsip n whiskey mmmm

[@14percentviking]

UK has capsules, caplets AND tablets. Tablets are round and solid, caplets are capsule shaped and solid, Capsules are soluble capsules full of the medicine

[@rachel.mcgowan]

Yes, and also "fizzy" soluble tablets and powders in little packets are available. Powders much less popular than in decades past however.

[@14percentviking]

@@rachel.mcgowan soluble in liquid, and orodispersible in the mouth

[@nolaj114]

My mum's adage was "feed a cold, starve a fever". My go to for a cold is tom ka chicken..like chicken soup but with lemongrass and chilli. Really clears the sinuses.

[@24magiccarrot]

In the UK we will reach for any soup when sick, but If there was an iconic when you're ill soup in the UK I'd say it's either Heinz tomato soup or Knorrs Chicken and Noodle soup with probably some getting ready to pounce on me with they prefer Heinz Chicken soup or a cup-a-soup (any flavor).

[@nicw5574]

As someone who can't take any of the usual cold and flu remedies, I recommend paracetamol and hot lemonade with brandy and lemon juice added to it. It helps me sleep

[@sonikurino1]

Once you start showing symptoms, the cold is on its way out so there's not really anything you can do but ride it out. All these products are more for comfort and to help relieve some of the symptoms, like unblocking a blocked nose.

[@bartsimpsonhead2790]

Lemsip powder's basically paracetamol with a mild lemon flavouring mixed with hot water to get fluids into you and help take a fever down - add a teaspoon of honey and a squeeze of lemon juice (vitamin C) and it goes down a lot better.

[@matthewpurnell1888]

Curry plus hot toddie. Best remedy.

[@beverleyrankin3482]

My friend’s partner just had a bad cold with a hacking cough he couldn’t shake, and made a hot toddy from an internet recipe which he drank before going to bed, and woke up the next day without the cough. I wondered if it were just coincidence and it was going away anyway, but he swears the toddy did the trick.

[@Rokurokubi83]

I once was really ill, paramedics came out because I was having awful stomach cramps for days, felt cold and was tired. I was 39c, they rushed me to hospital where I spent the next 4 weeks, apparently I was on the verge of septicaemia.

[@carolineskipper6976]

Lemsip Max ftw! It's just about the most important item in my medicine cabinet. I couldn't really get a handle on what people were actually saying when they said 'Calpol' until I had children and had a need to purchase said item. The thing about almost all cough and cold remedies is not that they hasten any 'cure' but that they lessen symptoms, so you can carry on.

[@lottie2525]

I've just got a cold and my go to remedy is Sinex nasal spray which ALWAYS unblocks a stuffy nose. Lemsip is really nice, the hot lemony flavour is really comforting, with the steam helping with the stuffiness too.

[@wrapcod6178]

I absolutely hate having a blocked nose but stopping it just increases the duration of your cold because it's the body's way of fighting the infection.

[@lottie2525]

@@wrapcod6178 I'd rather be able to breathe and have a cold last a couple days longer. Being bunged up is the worst.

[@speleokeir]

Lemsip is a rip off. I drink lemon & ginger tea with honey and take a paracetamol. it tastes better, the honey helps soothe your throat for a bit and it's much cheaper.

[@sueKay]

Beechams Flu Plus Hot Lemon is the bees knees...that's my go-to when I'm under the weather. And I do quite like Halls Soothers and Lockets if my throat is a bit sore

[@natg81]

Wooop I’m a Patreon!! Loved seeing my name up there! Loved the video JJ ❤❤

[@irreverend_]

To be fair almost all cold and flu remedies are solely for symptomatic relief, and are likely to prolong how long it actually takes you to recover. Phenylephrine is a very poor substitute for pseudoephedrine as a decongestant too, but for obvious reasons they made that more difficult to get.

[@irreverend_]

Calpol

[@Tobelia]

I don’t know how I would cope with a bad cold without pseudoephedrine nasal spray (Sudafed). Also when the cold is over, if you have a persistent cough it could be post nasal drip. Mometasone nasal spray was a complete game changer for me with that.

[@irreverend_]

@@Tobelia I generally just wrap myself up in a duvet for 24 hours and eat lots. I had swine flu back in 2009 and that took 48 hours as I recall, just sweating and eating/drinking lots. I guess I'm quite lucky with how I recover from colds though.

[@josefschiltz2192]

Fen-ah-lef-rin. Never used it. I just whiff up some Olbas Oil. A friend of mine used Tiger Balm.

[@Lazmanarus]

I like Tomato soup, Beef Broth, Oxtail soup or mulligatawny soup.

[@dominique8233]

One of the main differences in terminology is the American use of 'strep throat' not a term we generally hear. Likeley to just call it a throat infection.

[@SH-yo3du]

Strep refers to streptococcus ( the microbe )

[@segazora]

In the UK we do have a cultural food item associated with being unwell. When we are ill, we drink Lucozade, a gross but sugary carbonated soft drink.

[@shkeen57]

Beecham's powders

[@Tidybitz]

@shkeen57 ... Interesting, I haven't seen those in years, they were always in my parent's bathroom cabinet at home when I was a kid. I didn't know they were still around.

[@shkeen57]

@Tidybitz yes you can still get them..when I was a kid used to love unfolding the paper into a chute and chugging it down..loved the taste, weird I know

[@rachel.mcgowan]

​@@shkeen57That's interesting you did that because I found the little envelopes of powder attractive as a kid. They've recently changed the packaging to foil packets that are much harder to open, probably as a child deterrent.

[@welshgruff]

Hark the herald angels sing, Beecham's pills are just the thing. Take one when you're feeling ill, take a good old Beecham's pill.

[@alisonscurr4395]

We do say sick in the UK. We interchange with sick, ill, unwell, poorly. My dad used to always make us chicken soup when we were unwell. Lemsip does ease the congestion for a few hours. Vicks vapour rub or my go to Olbis Oil help you breath easier.

[@surfaceten510n]

Phone your boss in the morning to tell them you were to ill to come to work, then go to your Dr for a 7 day sick note to not miss out on to much of your pay.

[@Mary-i5c1m]

Home-made chicken soup is an effective decongestant - but the effects only last whilst the soup is still in the body.

[@darcityler2621]

I’ve never heard anyone use ‘sick’ as a synonym for ‘ill’ where i’m from, it might be regional

[@Mary-i5c1m]

@@darcityler2621 yes, probably regional. Part of UK I live in - even employers talk about staff having sick days off. Thinking about it maybe people in my region use sick for something very mild and ill when they feel bad or it is more serious.

[@jonstrummer6930]

​@Mary-i5c1m Aye, you 'phone in sick' then fill in, or hand in, a 'sick note' when you go back to work. 'Poorly' must be an English thing, is it? Definitely a Yorkshire thing as the first time I heard it was when visiting my aunts/cousins in Hull. Had to ask my ma n da why everyone was calling my auntie Lorraine 'Polly' 🤦🏼‍♂️ Never heard anybody use it in Scotland.

[@meeshelle1397]

We often say we are poorly or “not very well”

[@lynnhamps7052]

or got the lurgy..lol

[@ChrisShelley-v2g]

A child might say poorly.

[@jeanmck1577]

Or under the weather

[@ChrisShelley-v2g]

@@jeanmck1577 I think that's an adult saying, quite possibly to down play something if children are about "but not exclusively".

[@IvorH]

If you take any of these remedies, your cold should clear up within 7 days. If you take nothing, it should clear up within a week...

[@Marianne-k4u]

In Danmark anything above 37,3 is considered fever, but seveer fever is 39,0 to 41,0

[@revbenf6870]

Well done FDA!! Those guys are really on the ball, aren't they?? 😂

[@KnightmareUSA]

financially, yes

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

ok, so it may be some placebo effect but Lemsip or similar is the first thing I reach for when suffering from a cold and it always makes me feel better - prefer the blackcurrant version though. Also, a good belt of Scotch/Irish/Bourbon never fails.

[@mattbentley9270]

CALPOL - temp 36.4 yo 37.5 is normal ! over 38.5/39 c is a fever

[@louisehatfield7682]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - Lemsip usually contains paracetamol. So if you're taking Lemsip regularly then please don't take paracetamol at the same time. Need to do one or the other every 4 to 6 hours. Irrelevant point: You would do a great Ghostface. Good sounding voice and rather sarcastic.

[@fredfred1651]

calpol

[@richidraykat]

Calpol is the spelling. Its a brand

[@aininrobson924]

Lemsip first action nasal spray is good to stop flu develop. Usually you spray it when you starting having headache and sneezing. Always work for me.

[@nintynomreader]

7:22 in the UK we have both Capsules and Caplets, they are a different design and function, this is not a UK/US distinction. But yes we would colloquially call them tablets more than pills, though we are familiar with both. 9:40 Personally I think Lemsips/Powder sachets are gross, though I do consider it might be a delivery system that some people may appreciate. it might also have an additional placebo affect, no idea to be honest. 11:20 Being sick can mean throwing up, but it can also just mean being ill/unwell. Usually saying "I'm sick" is understood as feeling unwell.

[@lynnhamps7052]

British and first sign of a cold I definitely reach for the chicken soup..has to be Heinz and noodle-less. Sudafed for sinus issues, paracetamol for a fever and lots of hot tea for comfort, and bed rest, usually gets rid of most of it within 36 hours. 😃😃

[@riicky83]

Usually when I'm sick, my choice of food is either Soup (normally chicken soup, not noodle soup, just plain chicken soup) or scrambled eggs.

[@andreakinuthia4197]

Night Nurse is an amazing cold/flu remedy. Literally knocks you out for the night. You sleep like the dead, then the following day you feel so much better x

[@nicolap2]

Calpol nothing to do with Cows or poles🤣

[@bartsimpsonhead2790]

Pole dancing cows - now that's a fever dream!

[@littlechris5656]

lemsip tends to work better than the shop brands; but not always, and it doesn't help get rid of a cold it's just to relieve the symptoms.

[@BassistInATutu]

Hahaa - your auto translate let you down It's Calpol not cow pool! 😂😂

[@ElaineBakerCreepyCaboodle]

Although there's no cure for a common cold I must admit I love an original Lemsip. It's more of a comfort drink than anything else.

[@lemoncakes0]

Lemsip with a splash of whiskey. That was our family go to for cold & flu symptoms. Very soothing.

[@emmahowells8334]

It's spelt Calpol, if you still wanna look it up.

[@caroljoelucy]

When we have a cold here in the UK, we often have Heinze Tomato soup in a mug.

[@chrissymoss514]

Cowpull = Calpol 😂😂😂😂 Two paracetamol and hot lemon with honey, always sorts my colds out. 500mg paracetamol in ANY country is exactly the SAME dosage/strength. We usually say "off their head" when describing someone who is acting a bit mental.

[@AtheistEve]

You should try the herb Echinacea if you have a stuffed up nose, sore throat or blocked sinus from hayfever or cold.

[@marylynne9104]

In UK, my go to for a decongestant is Sudafed. Apart from that, paracetamol, a hot toddy and/or hot spiced chicken soup and then bed with a hot water bottle and sweat it out. Never had a cold for more than three days. Flu is a b!tch though, knocks you down for a week whatever you try. Manflu is nearly fatal in every case, and lasts at least two weeks, requires bed rest throughout and warm milk and paracetamol administered by a caring partner/parent/friend every four hours.

[@srichardson1963]

I normally use on a night when im away on night the Aldi/Lidl version of lemsip and i find it sooooo calming and soothing, but im english, a warm drink before sleep is always nice. or a hot toddie

[@OEDODRAGON]

We (UK) use the words tablets, caplets, and capsules. The word used depends on the shape or if it is contained in a swallowable container. Tablet is roundish Caplet is in the shape of a capsule Capsule is powdered medication inside a plastic like container in the shape, but not size, of a 'tall minion'.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I was always fascinated by the traditional mustard steam treatment, After seeing it in an episode of Steptoe & Son. Where you sprinkled mustard powder into a large pudding bowl of steaming water. Then inhaled the steam by leaning over the bowl with a towel over your head. As a kid, I had to make do with a smear of Vicks under my nose. My grandparents were the last people I knew who bought Colemans mustard powder.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

I buy English mustard powder & add it to cheese dishes, scones & sauces to intensify the flavour.

[@katmcdonald3561]

Can't do a whisky glazed baked ham without it!

[@titanium_di2402]

I buy Colman's mustard powder all the time!!!!

[@vaudevillian7]

Lemsip definitely helps, even if it’s a placebo

[@speleokeir]

Other than the placebo effect Lemsip doesn't do a thing except the paracetamol and you can buy that far more cheaply on it's own. If you want something to sooth your throat try lemon & ginger tea or even fresh ginger chopped up with hot water. Add a dollop of honey. Cheaper, nicer and more effective IMO. However the best thing to do when you first feel the twinges of a cold (for me it's at the back of my mouth) is eat lots of green veg: Onions, leeks, spring onions, brocolli and especially garlic. These all increase your white blood cell count which in turn boosts your immune system to fight off viruses. I find if I eat loads of these as soon as I fee a bit ill it really helps me fight off the virus and it often doesn't develop further. If you leave it until the next day though it gives the virus time to develop so is a lot less effective, although it may stop it getting as bad and help you recover more quickly.

[@MrJoelhawkins]

i love your reactions mate =]

[@yzolakitchi]

Agree, most people think these meds CURE illness, they provide SYMPTOMATIC RELIEF. I always keep Lemsip on hand, as well as Paracetamol and Ibuprofen. Aside from that, I swear by a hot curry and Ricola Original Herb sweets. 7-14 days max I find any cold clears up, tbh.

[@Bikergirl_40]

Honey & lemon in hot water is what my housemate makes me and my daughter when we are bunged up with cold. Also chucken soup.

[@angelavara-u6l]

The only time i have ever had flu was way back in the 80s, i get messages from the drs asking me to come for my flu jab but i take no notice. Last time i had a cold was about 20 years ago. my place is kept cool and when i worked in a factory i walked there and back in all weathers. over doses of paracetamol make the liver start dying and do not kill you

[@suejackson1731]

As a Brit l have Heinz cream of chicken soup with some buttered bread to dip, when l was younger my mum had me steaming my face with hot water and a dollop of Vicks vapour rub (which she smothered all over my chest and back). So l would be sitting there with my head over the bowl and a towel covering my head trying to breath, but it did seem to help.

[@claremartin3929]

Modern twist on a hot toggy works for me! Supermarket version of lemsip lemon cold and flu (it's cheaper) honey lemon juice (preferably freshly from lemon) and a dark alcoholic spirit of your choice

[@pyrrhrick3339]

"cowpiss" hahahahaha

[@titanium_di2402]

I spat my drink out!!!😂😂😂

[@craigwinfarrah]

the best flu med is a couple of caps of whiskey in tea or coffee

[@domramsey]

I do wonder if she's ever bought paracetamol / acetaminophen in the UK or just bought them in the US blindly, as it's around 35p for a pack of 16. Looking at Amazon US, 500 acetaminophen tablets works out at about 4 cents each, which is significantly more than in the UK. Plus even if she took 8 pills a day, that bottle of 500 would last her well over a year, by which point they probably would have expired.

[@QuantumDelta]

Brit chiming in on food (most of the rest was fine); Toast (dry, no butter) if you're suffering like acid reflux, or sore throat, or generally suffering with bad tummy (it absorbs acid and doesn't make it worse!) Soup (preferably a brothy soup) if you're struggling to keep food down. We generally stay away from anything 'rich' if there's anything going on down below too.

[@BikersDoItSittingDown]

Hi JJ, in all my time in the UK, the main remedy for a cold or flu is bed-rest. Go to bed, drink lots of fluids, Take pain killers. if your nose is stuffy, I have a packet of lockets. (sweets to suck) Lemsip is good because it has pain-killers and is a hot drink so does 2 of the things you need to be doing.

[@davidcollins9057]

Phenalephedrine or however you spell it is basically a milder version of speed so whilst it might not cure your illness acts as a pick you up to make you feel better.

[@PaulReardon-qh9fk]

JJ you look like a Lord of the Rings character who is embracing technology for the first time 😂

[@rarajiboo]

Blend of cold press black seed oil, good honey (I like Yemeni or Somali honey) and lime juice! Tastes and smells good at least We say “I’m poorly" or "I’m ill"

[@MisterChrisInTheUK]

A hot curry followed by a hot bath. Then a hot toddy before bed.

[@gaynormainwaring1853]

You don’t mix Lemsip with cold water - it’s a lemon flavour, you mix with hot water to make a drink, that you ‘sip’ - hence the name!

[@vaudevillian7]

I had cold meds in the US and they properly made me drowsy

[@SiansCraftyCorner]

I find having paracetamol, lots of hot drinks, tissues and olbas oil works. Usually I'm done in 3 days with a cold at most.

[@dannyglass1013]

Funny bird noises love it

[@ghostpuppet31]

I stopped getting flu after I discovered using 'Iodex' (cream version of iodine with a vapor added) by using a cotton swab to gently apply in nasal passages at the first signs of cold. Years later and the remedy still holds up!

[@dawn-louiseclarke1411]

Definitely best thing for cold/flu is a hot toddy & 2 paracetamols wrap up warm and sweat it out. Homemade chicken soup my nana use to make was always good when we were poorly. (Calpol is what this lady in the video was referring to for children liquid paracetamol).

[@OneTrueScotsman]

Poorly/ ill, unwell, feeling like shlt, are terms I and most people I know, tend to use to say they're sick, here. If I said I was feeling sick, it would literally mean that I feel nauseous.

[@GayJayU26]

An indian Curry often helps the congestion

[@brianpowell6058]

In the spring of 1976 I had a bout of flu. It was at this time I started taking small amounts of garlic in my food four times a week. When I say small amounts I mean one to two cloves. The flu I had in spring of 1976 is the last time I had flu or a cold.

[@lizstratton9689]

The Lemsip is used with Hot Water to make a hot Lemon drink which has paracetamol in it, helps drive up your temperature and clear out your cold.... I add Whisky to mine too :)

[@Tracy-lw4xg]

Calpol children medicine 😂

[@KSmeaton1]

I've caught a nasty viral infection cold/flu, and its horrid. Loads of medicines (blegh). So this video is appropriate lol. I use lemsip max cold and flu tablets. Benalyn dry throat and cough. Lozenges like Strepsils etc. Calpol.

[@AlOh-2]

Hope you feel better soon 😊

[@KSmeaton1]

@@AlOh-2 Thank you. Cos I am Diabetic alot of viral infections tend to be stubborn with me. Getting there slowly though!

[@kynby24]

When we were young, my ex would buy a bottle of cheap cherry brandy as his cold cure. Usually worked. Other worthwhile mentions include Lucozade, a hot curry, and fresh ginger tea. My 102 year old Granny swears by tea (weak black) with whiskey and lemon.