Dry cream Crackers and flat 7up

oakshade

I'm off sick today, stomach bug (yeuch, wont go into it). Anyway when were were young my mother always gave us dry cream crackers and flat 7up to make us better. My current predicament got me thinking... anyone else given the crackers and 7up or any alternatives?

Latchy

Flat coke can replace the flat 7-up to .

stovelid

We used to sing Mama Mia, I have Diarrhea (to the tune of Abba song) as kids.

I've just remembered that.

podgemonster

No your Mother never gave me anything like that...

the groutch

That used to be the only time you drank Lucozade

cml387

It was flat cream crackers and dry 7-up for me.

oakshade

podgemonster wrote: »

No your Mother never gave me anything like that...

Humm ... nice to see AH residents are as humorous in the afternoon as a night.

Buceph

My brother was sick on holidays years ago. He got really sick on the boat over to France, and had to be brought to hospital there. The first thing the doctors asked was would he like a soft drink, Coke, Fanta, Sprite, whatever he wanted as long as he didn't mind it flat. The way they explained it to my family is that when someone's sick you need to get them rehydrated no matter what. Most people like soft drinks and will drink more of them over plain water. So you might as well give them something they like. Plus there's sugars in it which will be good for energy. The reason it's made go flat is because the bubbles might upset a dodgy tummy.

The reason Seven Up is traditional is because it's a fairly neutral drink, and it's less likely for it to make someone feeling sick get upset about a strong taste.

Really, it's just old school practical medicine. You need to keep the sick person hydrated and energised and Coke and that are perfect for it, even if overall they're quite unhealthy. It's just in the short term their good outweighs their bad.




And when I was recovered from being sick but a little delicate still, it was always plain mashed potatoes and rashers for dinner. (Again old school medicin'ing, spuds for carbs and plain taste unlikely to upset someone, rashers for protein and salts that you might be lacking in from gawking up.)

ejmaztec

No matter how hard I tried, I could never get those cream crackers up me hole. Mothers? Who'd have em!

mackg

dry toast instead of cream crackers in my house.

brummytom

I'm eating cream crackers atm, strangely. Too salty though, bloody own brand. Can't beat Jacobs.

jackie1974

Dry toast and ginger ale.

oakshade

brummytom wrote: »

Can't beat Jacobs.

Absolutely

oakshade

jackie1974 wrote: »

Dry toast and ginger ale.

I used to drink whiskey and ginger so the taste of ginger now would probably make me hurl

IVIada

mackg wrote: »

dry toast instead of cream crackers in my house.

Same as my self. I can only drink 7up flat even when I am not ill.

Fowler87

brummytom wrote: »

I'm eating cream crackers atm, strangely. Too salty though, bloody own brand. Can't beat Jacobs.

You make your own crackers

Somnus

mackg wrote: »

dry toast instead of cream crackers in my house.

The old toast and 7-up for me as well

Standard Toaster

My Hen used to rub us down with 2nd century Gladiator sweat when we were unwell.

FetchTheGin

Standard Toaster wrote: »

My Hen used to rub us down with 2nd century Gladiator sweat when we were unwell.

Used to maximus effect.

oakshade

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Flat 7Up and Ice-c c cream

Ice Cream for a sore throat but surly not for a sick stomach??

sgb

Cream crackers are better than those prawn crackers they give away in curry shops

Rubberlegs

Not so much for feeling sick, but for when you've a bad cold. Boiled red lemonade, with a disprin in it. Bloody rank. Think my partners mother told him that one, he told me to try it anyway. I threw up in the sink:(

HalloweenJack

^^^^

Love that one, always works wonders for me. It just knocks me out and I wake up feeling a million times better.

OakeyDokey

Flat 7up is the best when you're sick or have a god awful hangover!

Rubberlegs

HalloweenJack wrote: »

^^^^

Love that one, always works wonders for me. It just knocks me out and I wake up feeling a million times better.

:eek::eek::eek::D

Cupcake_Crisis

I was always given warm 7up. Yuuum!

Capt'n Midnight

Or the cup of very milky tea with tons of sugar in it

oakshade

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Flat 7up is the best when you're sick or have a god awful hangover!

50:50 7up/Lucozade mix is fantastic for a hangover

VenusPlays

Flat 7up was the drink in ours too. But my mom made her homemade chicken soup for anyone that was ill, it would make you want to come down with flu or something cos it was so yummy!

CorsetIsTight

Semi-flat Schweppes Tonic Water, then dry toast (which should be cut into soldiers) when you think you can eat something.

General General

It is a little known fact that the most effective cure is: coke & hookers..

IcedOut

i got 8-up

Where To

Barley Water here

Ruu_Old

Flat 7-up is the Irish Mammy elixir of life!

Gremlinertia

Anyone remember getting gripe water? Used in our house when the toast and flat warm 7-up was deemed insufficient! And i loved it

Havermeyer

The 7-up wasn't just flat, you had to boil the bejases out of it and drink it while it was hot.

lorebringer

For years, YEARS, I couldn't drink 7up because I would literally gag - Pavlovian response to getting it every time I was sick as a child. Can now stomach it, but only if I am in the mood.

We were given flat, room temperature 7up or Lucozade and toast (with the teeniest scrape of butter). Also, if we had to take tablets, used to have them crushed up in marmalade... feeling queasy thinking about marmalade now, bloody hate the stuff!

ToddyDoody

A Hot Toddy can be good.

Sam Vimes

the groutch wrote: »

That used to be the only time you drank Lucozade

Lucozade makes diarrhoea worse. It actually says on the bottle "Lucozade is not appropriate for replacing the fluid lost during diarrhoea"

ardinn

Drop a spoon of sugar into 7up - you will see a very fast rising of bubbles through the bottle but not overflowing, instant flatness!!

AskMyChocolate

ejmaztec wrote: »

No matter how hard I tried, I could never get those cream crackers up me hole. Mothers? Who'd have em!

brummytom wrote: »

I'm eating cream crackers atm, strangely. Too salty though, bloody own brand. Can't beat Jacobs.

Ejmaztec, Tom... Tom, Ejmaztec.

Rubberlegs

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Anyone remember getting gripe water? Used in our house when the toast and flat warm 7-up was deemed insufficient! And i loved it

Ooh, gripe water!! Delicious and brought your wind up:D. Can you still get it? For some reason I thought it was taken off the market, due to it's high alcohol content. I may have made that up though:o

floutingmaxims

Flat seven up or soda water and dry toast.. If that didnt make you feel better then a clatter of the wooden spoon.

Riddle101

Campol and hot 7-up for me. In terms of food, i'd proberly just be given scambled egg.

herosa

Well if you are sick from a bacterial infection you might want to avoid them.In an interesting experiment the sugar from one soft drink was able to damage the white blood cells' ability to ingest and kill gonococcal bacteria for seven hours.

If you read about what these drinks do to you you might think twice about ever touching one again let alone give one to a sick kid.http://www.ionizers.org/soft-drinks.html