What's the best decongestant?!

[ScotiaLass]

Don't use oxymetazoline / xylometazoline. You can become dependent on it. The advice of a friend who is an ENT surgeon.

Yeah, my dad got dependant on it

 

[vickster]

I've just got a pack of actifed, a bottle of olbas oil, 3 more boxes of ultra balm and an 8 pack of ultra balm with menthol! Hopefully that'll keep me going until tomorrow! My eyes were streaming so much walking back from town, I could hardly see!

I also got some fruit, wispa bars and soreen...all the necessities of life!

 

[MikeW-71]

I usually take ibuprofen and use Olbas Oil. A few drops on a hanky and have regular sniffs, a few drops on the edge of the pillow at night helps get to sleep.

 

[winjim]

I've just got a pack of actifed, a bottle of olbas oil, 3 more boxes of ultra balm and an 8 pack of ultra balm with menthol! Hopefully that'll keep me going until tomorrow! My eyes were streaming so much walking back from town, I could hardly see!

I also got some fruit, wispa bars and soreen...all the necessities of life!

Have you tried medicinal whisky?

 

[vickster]

I'm not drinking at the moment so no

However my eyes feel better after the actifed!

 

[Hill Wimp]

I don't know, but I wanrted to join in and say that I've had a terrible viral chesty cough and snot for EIGHT days now.

Started with a headache that then progressed to feeling generally poo with paroxymal coughing accompanied by copious volumes of yellow snot. Have hardly slept a wink, OH moved into the spare room last night.

I am so desperate that I've sent the OH to get some Vicks Vapour Rub so I can try the Vicks on feet cure that I've read about on the interwebs. I'm usually very scornfull of such nonsense, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

All my friends laugh at me and call me a shamen when i tell them this but it works i promise.

 

[Sara_H]

All my friends laugh at me and call me a shamen when i tell them this but it works i promise.

I'll let you know in the morning!!!!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I had a look at this http://www.wikihow.com/Decongest-Your-Nose and it all seemed sensible until they suggested this!

Yes, I can't see how getting a few arm tattoos and depilating your armpit will help at all!

 

[Sara_H]

It ddidn't work

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Time for home remedies..

Stay off dairy all day.
Antihistamine
Large hot toddy before bed. (Lots of fresh lemon juice, generous amount of whisky, honey to taste, then to up with near boiling water in a point glass).

You should feel better even if you don't sleep!

 

[vickster]

I seem to now just be utterly bunged up rather than streaming....nice

Do a feel a bit better so hopefully it's on its way...although that could be the lemsip I had 45 minutes ago

Going to have a bath, need to figure out the best way to get in and out without kneeling on my chopped knee and putting too much weight through my tendonitised hand!

 

[raleighnut]

For clearing out all the 'gunk' after a cold nothing beats a medium hot curry, but at home and with a big box of tissues handy.
The chilli, ginger and garlic are in a lot of 'home remedies' so have them all together in a tasty meal.

 

[surfdude]

stick a finger up one nostril and blow down hard on the other . lean forward when doing this as it can mess up your clean tops

 

[Sara_H]

Time for home remedies..

Stay off dairy all day.
Antihistamine
Large hot toddy before bed. (Lots of fresh lemon juice, generous amount of whisky, honey to taste, then to up with near boiling water in a point glass).

You should feel better even if you don't sleep!

OH has just been sent out for some piriton as ours expired 2 years ago! Have failed on the dairy products front already having had milk in coffee etc.

 

[Sara_H]

I seem to now just be utterly bunged up rather than streaming....nice

Do a feel a bit better so hopefully it's on its way...although that could be the lemsip I had 45 minutes ago

Going to have a bath, need to figure out the best way to get in and out without kneeling on my chopped knee and putting too much weight through my tendonitised hand!

Also wrk out how you're going to get out, before you get in - that could be an embarrassing call for help otherwise!