This really irritates me.

Lima I just went and asked "you know who!"

And he said that they "can" work but are not neccessarily known to be successful. (medically speaking)

I.E. everything in medicine is not a guarantee although many medications are likely to have the desired affect. Such as 10 people popping a sugar pill for headaches. And 3 of them come back and say the sugar pill worked.  Whereas 10 people who pop paracetemol and 7 of them come back and say that it cured them.. Whereas 3 may say it didn't work.

So that is what is thought about cough medicine.

you are corrent in a way.

For Dry Coughs you need Cough Suppressants

Chesty Coughs you need Expectorants

Tickly Coughs tiy need Demulcents

If you take the wrong type it can be dangerous but if you take the correct once it will help you enormously.

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Also most if not all cough syrups are well known to not actually work medically speaking and most educated doctors will tell you that they are a waste of money!

I actually read that if one washes their hands with antiseptic rather than anti bacterial soap then it really helps combat frequent flu infections. Also wash the clothes in special washing powder that nursing homes use really helps too.

Alot of doctors from the indian subcontinent use antibiotics for everything! This is a major complaint here in britain. As infection is good to strengthen the immune system. And, from what I hear, one should only reach for antibiotics if he has had the same infection for more than 2 weeks.

The reason for this is because it is quite common to become reinfected with the same virus. However, if it lasts for more than 2 weeks then it is most likely a bacterial infection which would then need antibiotics. As a rule of thumb!

 But the doctor isn't wrong, he's saying that due to the cold weather the flu is going around BECAUSE people are staying in doors and to close to one another.  

While cold and flu isn't technically caused by cold weather, it does spread faster during cold weather. 

"When they say he could walk on water, I think of it like he could fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Literal people scare me, getting it wrong fundamentally, down at the church of 'Look it says right here see!" Ani Difranco

You tend to spot a lot of things when you have children. And me, I seem even better now I have a grandson, lol

Funny should should mention Panadol, cough syrup and nose spray. That's what the doctor here gave me when I recently had the flu, although it took over twoweeks to feel better, even now I not fully recovered.

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you are correct on the anibiotics, they cannot treat flu because they don't work on viruses. Antibiotics only work for some infections caused by bacteria.

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The flu is caused by three types (strains) of viruses - influenza A, B and C. Type A is responsible for the deadly influenza pandemics (worldwide epidemics) that strike every 10 to 40 years, whereas type B causes smaller, more localized outbreaks. Type C is less common and causes only mild symptoms. The influenza virus is generally passed from person to person by airborne transmission (i.e., sneezing or coughing). But, the virus can also live for a short time on objects -- such as doorknobs, pens, pencils, keyboards, telephone receivers, and eating or drinking utensils. Therefore, it may also be spread by touching something that has been handled by someone infected with the virus and then touching your own mouth, nose, or eyes Influenza virus is spread by inhaling droplets that have been coughed or sneezed out by an infected person or by having direct contact with an infected person's secretions. Handling household articles that have been in contact with an infected person or an infected person's secretions may sometimes spread the disease.

Taken from http://respiratory-lung.health-cares.net/influenza-causes.php

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thank you novi.....

 life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......

bless you Spicemon ...

i start sneezing when it is dusty like the other day when it was so windy and dusty and i was sneezing till i felt like removing my nose.......ah choooo(excuse me)

life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......

i would say that Qatari sun is correct in her post. that is what I have been told as well!

cold itself does NOT cause the flu… but it makes weaker your immune system, that’s it. Viruses live in your system all the time. But when weather is cold, your body spends much more energy to keep you warm, and that’s what makes you weaker. Then viruses get active, which cause flu… the doctor is correct actually… at least this theory is much more scientific than the one “because people congregate indoors and cough and sneeze on eachother"...

...why do they "cough and sneeze on eachother" at the first place???

answer: those people already have FLU, and they cough and sneeze coz they are alreday sick, not because they "congregate indoors"..

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This Too Shall Pass.....

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cold weather does not cause colds and flus.

my wife and i have been to a bunch of doctors here as she is pregnant.  we've come across some real mickey mouse operations, let me tell you.  to be honest, i think that with my 4 years studying economics, i would be a better doctor than one or two of the bone heads we met. 

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