Remedies for month old catarrh/feeling lethargic?

[Pilatus]

My wife and I have had a cold( catarrh) and feel so lethargic for over a month now, every thing is such an effort.
Just wondering if any other TFF members have had or suffering with the same symptoms. We’re taking paracetamols etc but very little effect.
Life goes on but at two speeds , slow and stop!

 

[Sharpy]

My wife and I have had a cold( catarrh) and feel so lethargic for over a month now, every thing is such an effort.
Just wondering if any other TFF members have had or suffering with the same symptoms. We’re taking paracetamols etc but very little effect.
Life goes on but at two speeds , slow and stop!

Same here, from mid November. Cold and flu tablets help a bit.

 

[Breakthru]

Go to Savers the chemist. Get 800mg odourless Garlic tablets. Take two to start with then one every day. No more choked sinuses or runny nose.

 

[Breakthru]

Ps. They come in 90,s at 2 or 3 pounds so very cheap. Started them after I realised how effective the garlic aspirin mix we sell for leatherjackets csfb works

 

[Flatlander]

Had it last fall and couldn’t shake it. Kids brought it back from school and within days I was coughing up a lung each morning and felt drained. Took a month to kick it but finally did. With the dust I’m around most of the time coughs and colds hit my lungs hard. Benylen bad spelling. Helps break it up and I can get it out. Kids it took two trips to the dr to clear it.
Im also a fan of honey to help boost energy levels and immune system.

 

[GTE]

Vit D ? help boost your mood ?
Alocate the odd time (30 mins / 1hr) to walk and enjoy the sunshine/life.
Glass of red , tell your ptnr you love them .

 

[primmiemoo]

Honey and lemon juice in hot water is cheap and effective at loosening up the gunge. If you sip the drink, and breathe the warmth from it, that helps, too.

I don't know how cold it is where you are, but when it's cold and I have stuffiness, wearing a good scarf up around the face when out working helps keep gunge from forming. Agree with GTE that being outside in sunlight is uplifting. Doesn't have to be sunny, either.

Hope you're both feeling better by now.

 

[Pilatus]

Many thanks for all your sensible replies.
A sunny dry day is great uplifter,hope the rain next week knows when to stop wherever we live in the Uk

 

[ollie989898]

Go out, do the very minimum amount of work with your stock (if not lock the front door and don't go outside), light the fire or camp by the rayburn and then simply take the day off and stay in the warm.

You can't expect to be at the coal face putting that strain on your body day after day for years and in the intense cold and it not take it out of you when you are ill.

You guys don't realise it but you're doing stuff all day and it's all physical. Even someone getting in and out of a tractor several times a day, walking from here to there to open a gate, cutting open a bale, etc etc etc- that's all massively more intense than the average factory or office worker. I used to have done 10,000 steps by 10.30am on the farm. All those little jobs soon add up in a day and it's hard work doing the above with a lung half full of scunge.

 

[Pilatus]

Go out, do the very minimum amount of work with your stock (if not lock the front door and don't go outside), light the fire or camp by the rayburn and then simply take the day off and stay in the warm.

You can't expect to be at the coal face putting that strain on your body day after day for years and in the intense cold and it not take it out of you when you are ill.

You guys don't realise it but you're doing stuff all day and it's all physical. Even someone getting in and out of a tractor several times a day, walking from here to there to open a gate, cutting open a bale, etc etc etc- that's all massively more intense than the average factory or office worker. I used to have done 10,000 steps by 10.30am on the farm. All those little jobs soon add up in a day and it's hard work doing the above with a lung half full of scunge.

Fortunately I am not that bad yet, so I do find that a very slow walk outside, can be beneficial . A different matter if one is really feeling like death warmed up and one is a one man band dairy farmer, outdoor pigs farmer , sheep, cattle, or laying hens farmer , with all the animals ( cows milked) needing to be fed watered and bedded down especially the older one gets, and the idea that one was going to set the world on fire ( so as to speak) has long time gone
Sadly not making any , if any , profit !!

 

[ollie989898]

Fortunately I am not that bad yet, so I do find that a very slow walk outside, can be beneficial . A different matter if one is really feeling like death warmed up and one is a one man band dairy farmer, outdoor pigs farmer , sheep, cattle, or laying hens farmer , with all the animals needing to be fed watered and bedded down especially the older one gets, and the idea that one was going to set the world on fire ( so as to speak) has long time gone

I am rather fortunate in that if I don't need to leave the house, I don't leave the house.

In healthcare it is generally frowned upon to turn up to work feeling ill.

 

[Pilatus]

I am rather fortunate in that if I don't need to leave the house, I don't leave the house.

In healthcare it is generally frowned upon to turn up to work feeling ill.

Good job most farmers,stockpersons, etc put there animals wellbeing ahead of their own health.
Perhaps Doctors should have the same approach