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Drinking 7-Up When You're Sick

  • 05-06-2010 1:06pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Twilightning


    I was just wondering whether or not anyone else does this. I remember being sick when I was younger and my mam saying the first thing she'd get me around in the shop was a 2 litre bottle of 7-Up. Is this purely an Irish thing? Been feeling like crap the past few days and I've had a bottle of it next to the bed.

    Do you drink 7-Up when you're sick? 288 votes

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    No
    Tonic water and Coca-Cola too. Both work wonders. Best to have them not too cold and best to let them go a little less fizzy too.

    Feel better, OP!:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No
    I've heard it many times in hospitals that flat 7-up is just as good for you any any other Lucazade type drink out there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    No
    Yes, flat 7-Up and dry toast. I kind of miss it in a funny way...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    I can't do it anymore because it reminds me of being sick :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭ Joe Thoughtless Freight


    No
    Yeah but you're supposed to boil it first to flatten it. Otherwise the gas could make you hurl again :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    No
    It has to be boiled to get rid of the fizz. Nothing better for an upset stomach.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    No
    I thought it was just my mother made me do that!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    defizzed 7up ... That's how you knew it was serious... Out came the 7up... and it's been stirred up to get rid of most of the fizz...


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,195 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    No
    DaPoolRulz wrote: »
    Yes, flat 7-Up and dry toast. I kind of miss it in a funny way...
    Yeah, always what my mam gave me, easier on the stomach I suppose
    I was just wondering whether or not anyone else does this. I remember being sick when I was younger and my mam saying the first thing she'd get me around in the shop was a 2 litre bottle of 7-Up. Is this purely an Irish thing? Been feeling like crap the past few days and I've had a bottle of it next to the bed.
    Get back to studying, waster.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    No
    I was always told 7up was good for you when you were sick, thought it was just an Irish thing but then I saw it on South Park (though they mentioned Sprite, same thing!) :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Twilightning


    No
    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    I was always told 7up was good for you when you were sick, thought it was just an Irish thing but then I saw it on South Park (though they mentioned Sprite, same thing!) :pac:

    7-Up > Sprite


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    My mammy used to always get me Lucozade


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭ Joe Thoughtless Freight


    No
    Let me just fix that for ya :p
    7-Up < Sprite


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sesna


    It has to be boiled to get rid of the fizz. Nothing better for an upset stomach.

    Yup nothing better than a drink full of sugar causing osmotic diarrhoea, to exacerbate an already existing stomach problem. I would use rehydration sachets, but of course mammy knows best.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    No
    7-Up > Sprite
    Let me just fix that for ya :p



    7-up = sprite


    There ye go . . .


  • Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Bucklesman


    No
    Let me just fix that for ya :p

    *SLAP*

    Sprite is nasty, syrupy crap and don't you forget it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Twilightning


    No
    7-up = sprite


    There ye go . . .

    Blasphemy. I know they're both lemon and lime drinks but they taste completely different. Sprite is mank, just like orange Lucozade. Can't beat the original.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Pauleta wrote: »
    My mammy used to always get me Lucozade


    Ohhhhhh did she now?....show off:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    No
    Yep-warm 7 up. Stick it in the microwave for a few seconds. I actually drink it like that sometimes even when i'm not sick if i've 7 up that's gone flat!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭Luno


    I thought my family were the only ones! :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    No
    sesna wrote: »
    Yup nothing better than a drink full of sugar causing osmotic diarrhoea, to exacerbate an already existing stomach problem. I would use rehydration sachets, but of course mammy knows best.

    funny that all the times ive been sick, boiled 7up has never done that to me afterwards, also funny that 3 different GPS have in the past recommended me to take it when sick. but of course sesna knows best


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,897 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Indubitable


    No
    salt in some coke or 7up when I was sick when younger. Tastes rancid but supposed to be good for you. I now normally just go about my daily business as best as I can unless it is something serious and I have to pop into the doctor.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Indubitable


    No
    aDeener wrote: »
    funny that all the times ive been sick, boiled 7up has never done that to me afterwards, also funny that 3 different GPS have in the past recommended me to take it when sick. but of course sesna knows best

    Perhaps it is the placebo effect?

    and what does a gps have to do with anything?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭changes


    No
    Blasphemy. I know they're both lemon and lime drinks but they taste completely different. Sprite is mank, just like orange Lucozade. Can't beat the original.


    Nonsense, Orange lucozade is the last word in soft drinks imo.

    Far too tasty to give to some sickly wretch layed out on their bed :D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭gidget


    No
    I still drink it when i'm sick. Even when i have a cold i would chose hot 7up over Lemsip - can't stand that stuff.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Indubitable


    No
    gidget wrote: »
    I still drink it when i'm sick. Even when i have a cold i would chose hot 7up over Lemsip - can't stand that stuff.

    You can feel hot 7up rotting your teeth as you drink it. (I can anyway).


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    mank, just like orange Lucozade.

    Blasphemy - I hope you are brutally stoned the next time you leave your house.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Lucozade Original (Hate it so much)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭Welruc


    my dog had pups a while back and a couple of them got sick, vet told me to give them 7up, one lived and one died so i dunno:confused:


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