Hot Whiskeys - Do they work?

theidiots

Started a new job this week and today in I'm in bits with the flu and felt like collapsing in work, never been as sick. Don't want to be calling in sick on my second day. Would a naggin worth or 350 ml do the job of hot whiskey? Rather be a bit hungover than dying with the flu.

Sh1tbag OToole

They work but so does a quality pint of stout

corkgsxr

Makes ya feel better alright.

im invisible

stir in a couple lemsip max with the sugar, be grand

Roger_007

there are some questions where it does not matter what the answer is.

Where To

Good dose of whiskey, (poitin better if you can get it), boiling water and STRAIGHT TO BED IMMEDIATELY ONCE YOU DRINK IT.

Taking it any other way and your wasting your time.

Sparks43

Grab loads of Lemons oranges grapefruit limes and whatever citrus fruit you can get your hands on

Lightly boil it up with cloves cinnemon and honey

Mix either paracetemol or your booze into it and rest in bed for about 24hrs

Works for me

corkgsxr

im invisible wrote: »

stir in a couple lemsip max with the sugar, be grand

The body isnt very tolerant of paracetamol overdose.

El Horseboxo

Anytime I feel a cold developing I begin taking cloves of garlic with water. Just cut them up and knock back quickly. Then I mix a bit of hot water with whiskey, lemon, honey and some cloves. Take this a few times once I feel symptoms and I haven't had anything develop in years. Can't even remember the last time I had a cold.

Lenn Brennan

Black rum is the best, doesn't effect your heart rate as much as whiskey so you sleep better

theidiots

Ill chance a naggin and a few lemsips.

Might get a escort over as well. Can suck the germs out of me

AnonoBoy

Do they work?

I'm not sure. Let me call my friend Claire Daly and ask her.

dub_skav

They are good for sore throat and head cold, won't do **** for the proper flu

1ZRed

Not sure, but a bottle of jameson sure gets things going anyway

kfallon

1ZRed wrote: »

Not sure, but a bottle of jameson sure gets things going anyway

A hot toddy would be right up your alley (ooooo matron)

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I don't know, but mixing sugar into whiskey is befouling an already fine drink.

couple of spoonfuls of pure honey will do the trick its antibacterial , anti viral , spoonful of cinnamon is good too.

ashers22

Just go to the chemist and pick up a cold and flu remedy, nurofen cold and flu or benylin 4flu are easy to take as they're in tablet form. If you insist on lemsip get the lemsip extra as it has added ingredient to ease congestion (but you can't take with it with the tablets mentioned above, they're essentially the same stuff). Don't be afraid to ask your pharmacist for advice. Anyway, they should help you get through the day and if you really can't handle it explain the situation to your boss and go see a doctor.

herisson

It does with a little sugar to make it drinkable. I get a horrible hangover after it but im moderately better after it :P

Nonoperational

Nothing does anything to shorten or cure a cold or flu. But a hot whiskey or cold/flu remedy makes you feel a bit better so why not. Good placebo effect too.

Duck Soup

I was told by an ex-nurse that only two things work for a cold or flu, one on the virus, the other on its symptoms.

A hot toddy works on relieving symptoms because alcohol dries up the mucus membrances, relieving stuffiness.

The only thing that actually aids in beating a cold or flu is to raise your body temperature (this why your body temperature rises naturally with flu or fever, to reach a level that will kill off the virus). So either multiple layers of clothes or get under the duvet.

Her take on it was whether it's pharmacy medicine or alternative medicine, unless your defenses are low due to bad diet or underlying illness, you're pretty much píssing money away on stuff that doesn't work. A nip of firewater and sweating it out. Sweating it out in particular will shorten the length of time you're sick and nothing else will have any effect.

humbert

Irishman thinks getting drunk before is second day in a new job is the key to being a good employee .

Not to mention any misconceptions about how the immune system works and what the flu is/is not.

JJJJNR

A load of Irish coffees do the trick.

ToddyDoody

theidiots wrote: »

Started a new job this week and today in I'm in bits with the flu and felt like collapsing in work, never been as sick. Don't want to be calling in sick on my second day. Would a naggin worth or 350 ml do the job of hot whiskey? Rather be a bit hungover than dying with the flu.

My standard response to whiskey, vodka or gin questions is... Careful, the shot you're about to down may in fact be urine.. Man's urine.

1ZRed

kfallon wrote: »

A hot toddy would be right up your alley (ooooo matron)

Heeeeorrr!

If it's anything like the bar games we've played, I can think of far better ways of sterilising my prick tbh!