Tiffy works great for me.

Second this. Tiffy is like plutonium when it comes to destroying colds. I have no idea what's in it. I don't care what's in it. Stuff does the business.

Moved to health forum.

buy yourself a box of the sugar free ginger tea sachets in tescos add in a squeeze of honey and squirt of lime and you will never think of Lemsips again

buy yourself a box of the sugar free ginger tea sachets in tescos add in a squeeze of honey and squirt of lime and you will never think of Lemsips again

I like to add a shot of SangSom, too.

Tiffy -- better than anything we had in the U.S.

If I have a cough that's keeping me from sleeping I also take some little pill at night -- something the pharmacist gave me to slip to Hubby when he had a cold that was driving me crazy.

As for the hot liquid part of Lemsip -- ginger tea, honey, with a shot of Jack Daniels does the trick. That's what we used in the U.S. anyway. Nice to know we can get our cold remedy here.

with a cold...some vitamin c, some tiger balm below nose and stay as little in the office as possible and as much in the bed as possible.

I tried alcohol for better sleep but it seems it makes the congested nose worse.

This guy is hilarious

Thank you, it's good to laugh

Take lots of Vitamin C. My experience is that it shortens the length and severity of a cold. I always have a tube of Hicee 500mg sweetlets handy and gobble them like sweets. This may not work for everyone, but it certainly works for me. Zinc is also supposed to help.