*weary Sigh* Bloody Men!

Very true...Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks allie! How are you feeling; how is the pregnancy going? Your ex giving you any trouble?

Yeh he is im trying to avoid him now. I havent felt well all weekend so the woman next door and her hubby have got lucas for me which really helps, I needed a break. If I still feel like this tomorrow, i'll make an emergency doctors appt.

I know the feeling. My kids have been full of flu all weekend. I now have a runny nose and i'm hoping i'm not going to get it too

Oh dear - woe befalls the .English girls!

I got some of those berocca vitamins. They are large tablets that you put into water to turn into a drink (doesn't taste too bad) and its supposed to give you a boost. I've only been taking them 2 days and so far cold is still here

I usually take echinacea when I feel a cold starting and it's brilliant - it really stops the cold from developing into a bad one. I have asthma so always seem to end up with a chest infection.

However, I didn't take any this time and boy don't I know it!

Ok for full on attack on colds and full
grab your self a packet of either lem-sip or beechams capsules and a packet of nurofen (or other ibuprofen not paracetamol).

Take a lem-sip or beechams then 2 hours later take a nurofen - 2 hours more lem-sip/beechams and so on.

You can't use paracetamol becausey ou risk over dosing as beechams and lem-sip have paracetamol in them but you can have ibuprofen

just space them out so you get a dose of one or other every 2 hours.

Fantastic attack on cold and flu symptoms.

I guess it's cause pregnancy feels different to every person. From my personal experience (3 pregnancies) when a baby moves it feels like a wave rippling throiugh your belly. Sometimes it kinda tickles and nudges out. It's a great feeling but sometimes it gets a bit much when your trying to sleep on your side and the baby is kicking the matress. Lol

Do you guys have airborne in the uk? It really works for stopping a cold! It sounds like what you described beck. It's an effervescent tablet that you dissolve into a glass of liquid (it actually tastes really good, like oranges). Knocked my cold out before it could kick my butt...

Zinc lozenges work really well for lessening the length and intensity of a cold. They have the ones that are like cough drops now (cold eeze) which are super convienent. If you can find them at the drug store the zinc lozenges which come in a vitamin bottle work best.

My mother uses them and has not had a bad cold in 21 years!!! No kidding!

When you first start noticing the symptoms of a cold (dry throat, sneezing, sniffles, etc) you start taking them according to the instructions, or like one an hour for all waking hours for the first day. It is important to suck the lozenge and not chew it. I will warn you that though they don't taste bad they leave a nasty aftertaste and will make you super thirsty.

The zinc adheres to your mucus membranes and doesn't let the virus attach.

Airborne works really well too.

Have you recently ingested any zinc cold remedies? These products can cause olfactory nerve damage which results in odd smells/tastes and even a complete loss thereof. I have olfactory nerve damage from a zinc cold remedy (cough lozenges) and I smell sulphur or burnt hair all the time. When the damage first occured I smelled ammonia very strongly.