2005-08-18

too many cough sweets spoil... the roof of your mouth

These past few days haven't been much fun. This bug has taken hold of me and it's horrid!

I've been throwing up a lot, but that has thankfully subsided.

Now I am only experiencing the remanants of the icky glandular feeling and sore throat that remains. I hope this means this bug is going away because it is tres horrible!

The sore throat isn't so bad now. It was pretty painful for a while - especially during the days where I was being sick a lot (sorry for the ick factor). Being sick and having a sore throat isn't a good combination.

Anyway I have now learned why taking too many cough sweets is not a good idea...

Call me pathetic, but my throat hurt so much that I just couldn't handle not going without a cough sweet. When the last cough sweet's effects wore off (which unfortunately was usually only a few minutes after I'd finished the last one) I had another one.

Not more than 8 every twelve hours, one packet read. Another, Not more than 12 every 12 hours.

Hmph! Did I care?

Nope!

I had a sore throat!

Did I care the next day, when the roof of my mouth was painful and numb?

Silence. Penny drops...

Ahhhh - so that's why there's a limit to how many cough sweets you're meant to take in a day!?!?!

Needless to say I haven't looked at another cough sweet since. Sore throat of not.

A relative of mine kindly introduced me to a rather nifty throat spray though, which I have now adopted. It's a propolis throat spray which includes other natural ingredients, like cloves - you can spray it as much as you want - and it works!

Hurrah!

For those of you who are interested, it's by comvita. Very cool. Especially if you've mistreated your mouth by necking too many cough sweets...

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