Sore throat help please

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janw

janw

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What is the best way to treat a sore throat - T2 and not on any meds nor insulin. Currently sipping on chamomile & honey tea (Twining's) with a little added honey. Ate at lunch time, but this has come on since, so have only had a low-cal jelly and a tiny bit of ice-cream. One sore throat stuff we have contains sugar and glucose, so I am not going to take that, but is lem-sip (probably Asda's own make) any good to take?
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
 
I find the Difflam Sore Throat rinse good. It’s not cheap but it eases the pain. Apart from that, sugar-free sweets, cold fizzy water or Diet Coke is soothing.

Whisky and hot water can also help too.
 
Paracetamol and drinking plenty is what I have been doing. vapour rub too for the stuffiness as well 🙂

you can do a salt gargle too but ewwww....pass on that one :D
 
Thank you @Inka and @gll
I have a can of Pepsi cherry max so I can pop that in the fridge in a while, got some weak squash chilling at the moment. Only whiskey I have is a miniature bottle used for cooking, not sure what's left of that, but I can check. No for the gargle - yuk - that's only for if I get totally desperate lol. Have plenty of paracetamol and have vapour rub, so will put those to use too.
I will have to look out for the Difflam, thanks
 
It always used to be gargle with TCP. I remember something called tyrozets which sort of numbed your throat but they no longer seem to be available. Strepsils are normally pretty good.
 
@janw sorry to read that you are unwell.
Do you have a Lateral Flow Test?
I think it would be a good idea to discount covid as the cause of your sore throat. I am sure you don’t want to pass it on to others.
Hopefully, it is not and you get better soon.
 
I have had a terrible dry sore throat at night for couple of weeks. In the end i took blackcurrant triple action Strepsils at 3g carbs. The carbs will hurt me less than the sore throat and sleepless nights. Much better after i had taken them. I will add i had 6 neg lateral flow tests in this time so think just virus.
 
helli said:
@janw sorry to read that you are unwell.
Do you have a Lateral Flow Test?
I think it would be a good idea to discount covid as the cause of your sore throat. I am sure you don’t want to pass it on to others.
Hopefully, it is not and you get better soon.
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No, we are having trouble getting any, just signs saying they have none. I'll try and check again tomorrow or see if anyone local has one I can use,
 
Leadinglights said:
It always used to be gargle with TCP. I remember something called tyrozets which sort of numbed your throat but they no longer seem to be available. Strepsils are normally pretty good.
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Yes I thought of TCP but we haven't used that in years.
 
I thought Pete had had a box of them in todays' post when I got it out of the porch - turned out it was a similar type of box with the wherewithal to do his Pooh test for bowel cancer screening!
 
Gargling with salt really does work but I understand the reluctance:D The only other thing that worked for me when I had a throat that felt like I'd been gargling broken glass, was soluble/effervescent paracetamol. Dissolve in warm water and gargle with each mouthful throughly before swallowing. Doesn't taste too bad and gave me much needed relief (obviously don't take other paracetamol tablers/lemsip etc). Tesco usually have it in stock.
 
Inka said:
I find the Difflam Sore Throat rinse good. It’s not cheap but it eases the pain. Apart from that, sugar-free sweets, cold fizzy water or Diet Coke is soothing.

Whisky and hot water can also help too.
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Whisky is the best cold/sore throat medicine but needs to be taken neat.
If taken with hot water I'd recommend whiskey
 
janw said:
No, we are having trouble getting any, just signs saying they have none. I'll try and check again tomorrow or see if anyone local has one I can use,
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Sorry to read that. I hope you are isolating as much as possible in the meantime.
Once you have a box of tests in, I highly recommend keeping some in case. My GP and hospital are, understandably, requesting we do a Lateral Flow Test before any appointment.

Sorry, didn't mean to send the discussion off at a tangent - I hope you feel better soon.
 
janw said:
I just did that, so they will be sent direct to me, it says 3 days or longer, so we will have to see. Thank you
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They were arriving next day weeks ago but then a shortage and now things taking 2 days normally 3 at most. I have some in should i need in future as you get sent 7 tests.
 
If you have a sore throat, my suggestion would be to go for a PCR test, rather than the LFT.

I have been in conversations with 2 doctors in the last 10 days, each, independently, and without any quizzing offered up the view (and I'm paraphrasing, obviously) that once a person has had more than a single dose of the vaccine, LFTs aren't worth the plastic they're made of. There are far too many false negatives.

I have a large box in my office, but if I had any symptoms I'd go straight to PCR.
 
Agree with LFT suggestions, suggest strawberry sugar free strepsils. They work and are zero sugar.
 
Mrs Mimoo said:
Agree with LFT suggestions, suggest strawberry sugar free strepsils. They work and are zero sugar.
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Thank you. I was sure I had heard about sugar-free strepsils, so I will need to get some.
 
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