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best way to cure sore throat?

  • 21-08-2005 11:27am
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    Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    I'm off on holiday next week and i woke up yesterday with a very sore throat, anyone have any tips to great rid of it?

    I've been drinking hot tea to reduce the pain, and i'm getting honey and lemon lockets in a few minutes,

    any tip would be great,,


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Prior Of Taize


    salt+water+gargling...or disprin+water+gargling. both work very well


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    clip off it's wings, or try attaching weights to it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    Mordeth wrote:
    clip off it's wings, or try attaching weights to it.

    :D:D:D I noticed that flaw too, but i was going to be nice and not say anything! :p


    Well your doing the right thing by drinking the hot fluids...

    I would try Dispirin Direct...it's the melt in mouth form, found them very good for sore throats.

    *Only take this if your not allergic to this medication and have taken Dispirin before!*


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    best way to cure a soar throat?
    Correct spelling can often help.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    lol my mistake,,


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  • Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    salt+water+gargling...or disprin+water+gargling. both work very well

    That normally works for me as well as dissolving a disprin on your tongue, tastes crap but it works.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Polly19


    I suffered from extreme sore throats beofre my tonseils were removed.

    Theres a product you can buy over the counter in the chemister called Diaflam(or something like that).U can get it in spray form or mouth wash form.Mouth wash is better.It helps numb your throat and ggood thing is you can take it ever 90min-3hours.So if a sore throat is coming on you can take it.The spray form is real easy to carry round though


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    gandalf wrote:
    as well as dissolving a disprin on your tongue, tastes crap but it works.

    Try Dispirin Direct:
    It is specially formulated to dissolve on the tongue with a pleasant taste which means you can carry it with you and take it whenever pain strikes

    lol i better shut up about Dispirin before people start thinking i'm a dispirin promotor :)...


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    cheers guys thanks.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    that thing polly is talking about is called difflam


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Polly19


    thanks Mordeth :)


  • Posts: 3,621 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    NeVeR wrote:

    any tip would be great,,

    Go see a doctor


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    There is also a medicated mouthwash called Oraldene which tends to work really well. It has a numbing effect when you use it and I find that my sore throats never last longer than a day and a half if I use it.

    It tastes absolutely manky though, so if you are getting it get the mint flavour.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    Stop Shouting! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    There's some cure,think it has something to do with giving head to a taxi driver......Oh no wait,it's halls soothers!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    damn you got the dirty reply in before me!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    The lights are on ,Tar,but you're not home....


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Hot milk and honey - tastes terrible though.

    Or ask a pharmacists adivse on medicated strepsils,


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Naos


    Hot water, Honey and lemon...

    Nectar of the Gods


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    i shout and scream til my voice goes, then it gets all hoarse and sexy!!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Try Merocaine from the chemists.
    They are basically advanced Strepsils.
    They're the best thing I've ever used to get rid of sore throats.
    (And a cuppa hot tae / honey and lemon always helps :))


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 sabriel


    Gargling mouthwash and eating plain yogurt helps kill the bacteria.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭lazylad


    The absolute best way to cure a sore throat is a mouthwash thats expensive called difflam(something to that effect). You can buy it in the chemist, its a green coloured liquid in a bottle. Its excellent for dumbing the pain and killing infection. The rest of the cures on this thread are really only semi effective and hardly eveer seem to work at all. I always use the difflam, but if you use it when you feel a sore throat coming on it can prevent it coming out full blast.


  • Registered Users Posts: 332 ✭✭*marie*


    Try gargling with TCP, smells disgusting but it always works.

    Oh and be sure to dilute it first...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Triton


    Go to your doctor and get Calvepen antibitotics. They'll get rid of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    The last sore throat I had was cured by two Advil, I'd advise that you don't try all the remedies suggested here together, otherwise you might end up dead !


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Healio


    Have something spicy, i recommend a nice hot-curry, sorts out colds, blocked noses and sore throats.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    spoons and spoons of honey. the ourer the better


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭*MmmPie*


    Ice-cream, it numbs the pain for ages and tastes oh-so-delicious :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    *marie* wrote:
    Try gargling with TCP, smells disgusting but it always works.

    Oh and be sure to dilute it first...
    I will have to agree, this is the best way to get rid of a sore throat. Take 3 times a day for a day and half, 1 teaspoon of TCP to 5 teaspoons of water gargle for about a minute. This truly does the trick, the smells dosent bother me anymore I actually kind of like the smell now. I know because I was dying last week with a sore throat and it worked so well.


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