If you had some red wine, I would suggest hot mulled wine! :)

Warm, cosy, and makes you feel good! ;) :)

Moni

*sigh* Moni...no wine; just whiskey.
And we're a dry county.
The nearest real booze is forty miles away.......would beer do?

It's one of those dry, hacking coughs that produces nothing but a headache. The expectorant has loosened the chest up a bit but not much.

Lori who is turning into a poster child for bladder control pads......

I have only used the gin soaked raisins for arthritic type pain and it works well......but you have to soak them a week.
Buy one 750 ml bottle cheap gin and pour over a box of golden raisins in a flat pan....I used a 9 X 9 pyrex baking dish and let sit out for about a week or until the gin is evaporated/absorbed into the raisins. After this step, place raisins and remaining liquid in a quart jar and refrigerate Works best if taken every day.
For your cough, mix 1/3 part Vodka, 1/3 part fresh, if available, lemon juice and 1/3 part honey. Stir well and take by teaspoonsful letting the mixture sort of ooze down your throat.
Also, keep a humidifier going, especially near your bed at night. Drink lots of liquids and get lots of rest.
Hope you feel better soon.

Have you any lemon drops? They work great for DH and myself

Try a spoonfull of honey

Hope you feel better soon!

..note to self: put gin and more whiskey on shopping list. (Two kinds of drunken raisins ought to be better than one. DRATS that it takes a week to soak 'em up though.)

I forgot!
I have lemon juice!
Thanks Carol!
I'll have to tweak our recipe a bit but it'll work.
You are a genius!

...Lori who is scurrying off to fill the kettle again and put it on to boil...oh! The honey needs nuking too.....

Hot Toddy

1 1/2 ounces Whiskey
1 ounce Honey
1/3 ounce Lemon Juice
3 ounces Water (Hot)
If you have a microwave, the easiest way to make this drink is to warm the honey and lemon juice for about half a minute and then to add hot water and the whiskey. Otherwise, we recommend that you stir the honey and lemon juice into extremely warm water, allow it to cool slightly, and add the whiskey.

Or Google for other Hot Toddy recipes. They are "good for what ails you."

Sue

Lori, Your where I was about 3 weeks ago. After having a hyst. 15 years ago I didn't have to use those pads anymore. Yipppeeee. Until I got this pneumonia, and coughing my head off. Dry, long, hard coughs. I was told today after another x-ray, I'm 90% better now. My cough is a lot better.
Leslie

Lori, DON'T nuke the honey! It kills all the good stuff in it! Set it in a pan of warm water to liquify the crystals in it. Hope you feel better soon. The vicks on your feet was what I was going to tell you, but you already did that.

Tami

Hot Toddy will be great for you. Stock up on the brandy too!
It really sounds like you got it covered! Wait it out is about the only thing you can do and it sucks I know!
Have some Zicam or Airborne on hand for the person YOU share it with! ;) If taken at the very begining I swear by it.

Lori, my Grandfather made a "Medicinal" drink from equal parts of Whiskey, Maple syrup and Lemon juice. He swore by it. Especially during the Holidays! :) But I think it might be very soothing for a cough. At least you'd sleep through most of the bad stuff!

You can't nuke honey?
I didn't know that.
You learn something everyday at the KT, doncha?
Thanks Tami.

No Zicam.
I THOUGHT about getting some last week when I was in town but didn't. We've all had the sniffles and snots since before Christmas so I figured it was too late for the preventative measures.

Digger just came home from drill team and looks flushed again and is coughing. She SAYS she is taking her antibiotics every day but I have my doubts. I'm going upstairs in a minute to count her pills. Kids hate moms like me...LOLOL
She wants a toddy too. Lemon juice and honey for her.
The whiskey is alllll mine, although at her age she'd probably get more use (sleeping time) out of the Crown than me.

Sleeping this stuff off is my intention Mush.
LOL
Why do you think I'm getting my shower and putting my jammies on before I start imbibing?
I just didn't want to sound like a lush.

Thanks all!

Lori

The hot toddy will be the best for you Lori, but if you didn't have anything but the whiskey, it will work too, just warm it up and sip it.

I know this because I'm the world's worst hot toddy maker according to my DH and Dkids ;0) DH quit coughing after a dose of heated up whiskey with nothing else in it ;0) and he slept good that night too lol.

I'm sorry you're sick.

Hot whiskey?
Sounds pretty good.

LOL

Digger just read all this and said 'why don't you just take a shot of nyquil?'

Nyquil indeed!
Nyquil is for amateurs.
Those with little bitty baby colds and who aren't twenty one yet.

TODDIES are for those of us with BIG colds who need BIG relief.

Right?

LOL

Lori

Sorry you don't feel welll, Lori. There is an awful lot of "junk" going around.

Make Sue's Toddy--the honey soothes your throat and makes the whiskey taste good. Heat it well and take in the steam while you're waiting for it to cool. Hope you feel better soon.

just don't mix the otc with any home (toddy) drinks...

do you have any lemonade? lemons and honey...

i love a heating pad on my back...sort of helps the pain from coughing...and nothing like a hot or steamy shower...wrap your head right out of the shower...

pressure points sometime work...

Put that Vicks on your chest girl. Believe me it will work. I like the cream that comes in a tube. I've never heard of putting Vicks on your feet.
Hope you get some sleep.

Sometimes I can sweat out a cold. I'll drink plenty of fluid, topped off with a hot whiskey drink, or one of the nighttime formula cold medicines. Then I put on my warmest pjs, crank up the electric blanket under a down comforter, and try not to throw off the covers in the middle of the night. I'll be soaking wet when I wake up in the morning, but I usually feel much better.

DH thinks I'm crazy but I swear it works ... sometimes.

I found this recipe for a cough on the internet. I haven't tried it, but sent it to a friend who used it and said it helped. She didn't have any cayenne pepper in the house, so used some hot sauce she had!

given by a nurse

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 Tablespoon honey
1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 Tablespoons water
Mix and take by the teaspoon.

Boiled water, 2 T of lemon juice, honey to taste and hang over it while sipping. I swear by it. You can add more lemon if needed.

I soak raisins in bourbon, after about 8 hours they are plumping up, shake or stir every once in a while, taste them to be sure they're good. lol I keep them covered so the alcohol doesn't evaporate, by about day 3 I pop the container in the fridge. They keep almost forever if they last that long.

Feel better soon, Lori. I've had good luck with Zicam, try to keep it on hand at all times, when you need it, you NEED it.

Yes, the honey soothes the throat so the whiskey won't burn going down. You don't have to nuke it, just a second or two will warm it up.

Little story: When my DD was about 2 years old she had a bad case of a croup-like cough, etc. Doc told me to give her the whiskey, honey, lemon juice mix. DH and I being tee-totalers created a problem. I knew the DH of one of our neighbors was not a TT, so I went down and knocked on the door. Wife answered and I asked her if she had any whiskey? She said No, Sue, but I have a beer in the fridge if you want it! I still laugh about that.

HTH and tomorrow you will be chipper again.

Sue

I've been reading an awful lot about rubbing the Vicks on the feet and everyone swears it works....
I also like all the drinking...Of course if you have a sip or taste of all the drinks, you probably won't be able to rub the Vicks....Feel better soon....

Seagram's Crown Royal, a splash of hot water and some honey, honey. Sometimes it is "fun" to be sick!!!!! The fumes will help your sinuses and the rest will comfort you.

Not kidding, you will sleep like a baby.

Well, the quart is gone.
One drink was with the last of the lemon juice and honey.
The next two with squirt pop.

I haven't coughed for quite awhile either.

Good thing I showered and got into my jammies.
LOL

Thanks everyone!

I am saving this post for future reference.

nighty night!

Lori

Many years ago one of my little ones coughed incessantly for weeks. Dr. prescribed 7 (yes 7!) different cough syrups-nothing worked! An elderly neighbor who'd raised 10 kids told me to get peppermint candies, put them in a jar and cover with whiskey & after candy melted to give him a teaspoon full. After checking w/doctor, I did.

It worked! When that little fella' went to sleep he slept so long and hard I was so alarmed I kept putting my ear on his chest to be sure his heart was beating, a mirror near his mouth, etc.
Suzi

I forgot the DH's grandmother used to warm some wine, get into bed, then drink the warm wine. It would sweat out the cold. But you better be IN BED before you drink the warm wine, as it will knock you out quick! Especially if it was her home made stuff!

Tami

I tried the Vicks on the bottom of the feet at bedtime, then put on socks. K said he didn't hear me cough all night.
JoanMN/FL