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1. katydid
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   Hey, how\'s the junior member of the team feeling? Better I hope. Being sick with a temp is no fun.

   Posted 4 years ago #         

2. WSB
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   Thanks for asking. Fever\'s gone but he is still miserable. It\'s the hacking nonstop cough that\'s the worst. This morning we have tried cough drops plus the \"Coldbuster\" Jamba Juice, no major results yet. This is someone who\'s been sick maybe 3 times in 12 years so he just isn\'t used to it. I\'m about to haul out everything I remember from childhood ... Vicks Vapo-Rub maybe, if they still make that!

   Posted 4 years ago #         

3. JoB
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   honey and lemon in hot water...

   worked as a croup medicine when my babies were little.

   Posted 4 years ago #         

4. TheVelvetBulldog
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   Stash Tea (I think it\'s Stash...) makes a Lemon Ginger tea that I drink for throat irritation. The ginger warms and coats the throat and adding honey gives a further soothing effect. Feel better Jr.!

   Posted 4 years ago #         

5. Bernicki
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   Steam! We swear by it. We have three of those humidifier things, one for every bedroom. You can get them at drug stores.

   Posted 4 years ago #         

6. Anonymous
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   lowmanbeach - I\'m not sure how old the junior member is (12?), but Mucinex is the absolute best medicine out there for coughs. I think you have to be at least 12 to use it. It is an exportant and suppressant and it is the best I\'ve ever used.

   Posted 4 years ago #         

7. JanS
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   Vick\'s is the modern medicine...a mustard plaster on his chest will bake it out for sure - lol...of course, he\'ll dislike you forever, though...lol...

   Posted 4 years ago #         

8. BobLoblaw
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   Tussin!

   Posted 4 years ago #         

9. WSB
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   Thanks all for the advice. I was out all afternoon at the Satterlee House hearing downtown and came home to a somewhat recovered Junior Member in the care of Salesguy (aka Dad). Of course he\'s torn between whether to feel happy or sad because feeling better means he\'s going to have to go back to school tomorrow. No school on Friday, though, so it will be a 2-day week.

   Posted 4 years ago #         

10. WSMom
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    Homemade Chicken Soup!! I guarantee it!!

    I\'m on a soup campaign these days!

    http://chetday.com/coldfluremedy.htm

    Chicken Soup: Nature\'s Best Cold and Flu Remedy?
    By Chet Day
    An excerpt from
    How to Beat Colds and Flu with 37 Natural Remedies and Three Healing Meditations

    When I was growing up in the \'50s, my grandmother always said chicken soup was good for what ails you.

    Interestingly enough, scientific evidence today supports what dear old granny used to say.

    Several medical experts have proven that old-fashioned chicken has healing properties.

    Although a 12th century physician named Moses Maimonides first prescribed chicken soup as a cold and asthma remedy, its therapeutic properties have been studied by a host of medical experts in recent decades. Findings vary.

    Some say the steam is the real benefit. Sipping the hot soup and breathing in the steam helps clear up congestion.

    Irwin Ziment, M.D., pulmonary specialist and professor at the UCLA School for Medicine, says chicken soup contains drug-like agents similar to those in modern cold medicines. For example, an amino acid released from chicken during cooking chemically resembles the drug acetylcysteine, prescribed for bronchitis and other respiratory problems.

    Spices that are often added to chicken soup, such as garlic and pepper (all ancient treatments for respiratory diseases), work the same way as modern cough medicines, thinning mucus and making breathing easier.

    Another theory, put forth by Stephen Rennard, M.D., chief of pulmonary medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, is that chicken soup acts as an anti-inflammatory. The soup, he says, keeps a check on inflammatory white blood cells (neutrophils). Cold symptoms, such as coughs and congestion, are often caused by inflammation produced when neutrophils migrate to the bronchial tubes and accumulate there.

    In his lab, Rennard tested chicken soup made from the recipe of his wife\'s Lithuanian grandmother. He demonstrated that neutrophils showed less tendency to congregate - but were no less able to fight germs - after he added samples of the soup to the neutrophils. Diluted 200 times, the soup still showed that effect

    Posted 4 years ago #         

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