Head colds and stuff

I wonder if any of you ladies can help me. I have come down with the mother of all head colds, consisting of a sore scratchy throat, a head that feels as though it's filled with concrete blocks and cotton wool alternatively, major cases of phlegm and coughing and extreme tiredness (and nausea if I eat). Do you know of anything that may help relieve the symptoms?? The chemist gave me a sore throat gargle and a nose spray, but they aren't really doing a lot (and the iodine based throat gargle is really not tasty). I just want it gone!!! It's also made me extremely emotional and I just want to cry, because it's NOT good timing when I'm looking for a permanent job and need to go to interviews etc.

TIA.

Sleep helps.

edit: Snap ginger! lol

Edited by Chovynz

Codral Day and Night always helps me. Maybe not in getting rid of the actual cold/flu but it makes you feel heaps better so you can cope with it    Oh but thats if you can persuade the chemist that you aren't a P addict

ETA Hope you feel better soon

Edited by KH25

Lemon and honey drinks for the throat and clear the head, chamomile tea to help calm and make it easier to cope with. Panadol for temperatures and headaches, be very careful about using Nurofen when you have an empty stomach, as it can eat thru your stomach lining. Not good.

Now, to combat the nausea, peppermint tea is meant to help, as with anything with peppermint in it. Or, if you are desperate to be able to eat and attend job interviews, your pharmacist can sell you Nausicalm, which has Cyclizine in it, and it works well. I'm on morphine at the moment and it is keeping that nausea under wraps. You will have to sign for it, and its about $10. There are other antiemetics (anti nausea medications) around, but this for me has been the best.

Otherwise lemonade ice blocks, and water crackers should stay down, or at least give you something to throw up if and when it happens.

Hang in there Chicka!

I've been having lemon and honey drinks (got an awesome producing lemon tree in the back yard), haven't managed to get sleep yet (am doing a temp job at home). I have chamomile tea!!! Might have some before I go to bed. I permanently suck on peppermints anyway, to try and cut down my smoking so that's helping, it's just as soon as I eat something it isn't a good feeling. I've just been having Panadol for the headaches for now, though they're not doing a whole lot.

Thanks for the help