Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Expat & Property Owners Q and A Forum => Topic started by: Marggie on December 29, 2013, 10:44:54 AM
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Is it possible to buy menthol & eucalyptus or similar cough sweets here and if so what are they called? Both of us have really bad colds and coughs and could do with some soothing sweets.
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Have you tried sucking on a Fisherman's Friend ?
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lol
:P
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OLIPS in the blue packet are menthol and eucalyptus and are available in most supermarkets and village shops. You should also be able to get STREFEN (similar to Strepsils) at most pharmacies - they are honey and lemon flavoured with the addition of an anti-inflammatory (flurbiprofen).
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Have you tried sucking on a Fisherman's Friend ?
Guessed I was leaving my self open to such comments lol ;D ;D. Funnily enough I have KKOB, our friends who went back to the UK to live recently left us some - he was "addicted" to them!! Thanks guys for feedback.
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I nearly choked once on one of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. ;)
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I second the Olips I always bring a few bags back to the UK with me as well... Hope you are both feeling better soon Marrgie :)
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i love uncle joes mint balls
i always felt better after a good suck of one of them
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Its this time of year when a lad like I, turns from boiled sweets of the summer like pineapple chunks, rhubarb and custard, pear drops, sherbet lemons etc. to the trusty winter warmers like Army and Navy Tablet (can you still call them tablets in this day and age?) Cough Candy, Cloves and if only you could get a quarter of Hacks ... could sooth the throat and nasal passages (lol) of a forty a day Capstan Full Strength smoker.
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I was sent to get fizzy drinks in Morrisons and well remember kola cubes - a sweet named after the drink. Morrisons now do kola cube flavour fizzy drink - a drink named after the sweet, named after the drink.
Won't help your cough though :D
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I once ate a whole quarter of Victory V lozenges, (I loved them) but ended up doubled up in tummy pain! My dad gave me some liquid paraffin to settle it. Serves me right lol! :-[
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Thanks everybody, off to find the Olips today. :)
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As someone who regularly virtually every winter suffers from a bronchial type cough / bark that lasts on average 6 to 8 weeks ( I am coughing right now ) over the years you name it and I have tried it ... medicines and all the sweets you can mention... and although comforting.. NOTHING works :-( coughs go in their own time I am sorry to say and I know from experience :-(
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I agree with Sleuth, cough mixtures and lozenges only soothe for the length of time they are in your throat. Better off taking paracetamol if it's a cold. The cough will run it's course.
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Agreed, have done the Paracetamol bit and today feel heaps better but whilst the cough is running its course, it doesn't hurt to have some soothing sweets to suck on. Know they don't cure but they can give a bit of symptomatic relief :)
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Am suffering from a rotten cold at the moment, face full of cold sores, chest pain caused by coughing, not stopping me getting on with stuff. Go by the old adage, 3 days appearing, 3 days here and 3 days going, I'm on my 7th day, taking Zovirax for cold sores, paracetamol for headache, and dry white wine to help me sleep!!!
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Victory V used to be my fav, have not bothered with them for years now as they taste nothing like they used to when I was in my late teens, used to keep an emergency packet in a metal tube under the pillion of my bike. :)
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I don't want to be doom and gloom but from personal experience if you have had a cough for more than 2-3 weeks please go and get it checked out especially if you are or were a smoker my uncle had a cough for a couple of weeks went to the doctor gave him some medicine said that should cure it, a few weeks later it still hadn't gone went back tried something else this happened over a 6 month period turned out to be lung cancer he died 3 weeks before he was due to retire (20th of December 2012) he had quit smoking nearly 25 years ago