What helps you when ill? Need some tips!
What helps you when ill? Need some tips!
I'm full of cold or flu. Taken some paraceptamol to reduce the fever. What do you like to do to feel better even for a short period of time. Need some tips! Feeling so crap
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Chicken soup (placebo yes but works for me)
Ibuprofen
Had this bad boy in the fridge...
Time to give it a go. Get well soon!
Plus one for chicken soup, always seems to help. Also orange juice and fresh air (while keeping warm)
Not just a placebo! At least when made with a proper bone broth. There have been some studies showing it has anti-inflammatory properties, not to mention all the great nutrients it has! (source)
Yes, I always leave the bones when making the chicken soup . And it has a lot of nutrients, but I meant placebo because it doesn't help fight off an infection like a vaccine or an antibiotic would, and it also doesn't help with fever or inflammation in a noticeable manner. It helps with hydration and some electrolytes I guess, but I suspect an over the counter solution is probably even more effective than the soup.
Benefits are if you regularly include it in your diet. It takes time for your body to pack up its nutrient reserves and make something useful with it. Myth has turned chicken soup into something similar to Popeye's Spinach or Mario's Mushrooms and that's not true.
I don't mean to imply anything magical about it, just thought I'd mention that it has some legitimate benefits beyond placebo for anyone unaware! The site linked above has all the information I was talking about, and cites the source studies too.
Ibuprofen all the way for the flu. I think its a more effective antipyretic, and it will help with the inflammatory response that causes the body aches.
Paracetamol is acetaminophen and is not supposed to be regularly mixed with ibuprofen.
Edit for clarity, it's not recommended to do so regularly.
That's not true
You can take it at the same time and usually you take it in 2 hour intervals alternating.
You are not supposed to swallow them together or right after the other, that's right. But you can alternate them safely and take ibuprofen before the paracetamol starts wearing off (roughly four hours after the other).
Of course it's not ideal to take ibuprofen regularly for days on end. And don't exceed the maximum dose at any given time.
Personally paracetamol does nothing for me, so I rely on ibuprofen solely.
This isn't true. You can take them together. You should not take them together regularly though without a doctor's okay.
They are entirely different drugs with different mechanisms. Taking too much paracetamol/Tylenol/acetaminophen is extremely dangerous for your liver and dosing instructions should be followed exactly. Prolonged use of ibuprofen or other NSAIDs can lead to gastrointestinal ulcers and kidney damage, so only take it for as long as you have to. They both have instructions to take a dose every 6 to 8 hours, so if you're in significant pain or you have a really bad fever, you can alternate them every 4 hours. For example, paracetamol at 8am, ibuprofen at noon, paracetamol at 4pm, etc.
Also, be careful of "cough" or "cold" medicines like NyQuil/DayQuil, because they usually have paracetamol/Tylenol in them and that counts towards the daily dose limit.