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Dorothy V

(138 posts)
8. Those symptoms could be one of several bugs. Get a friend or family member to drive you to your doc's office (make sure
Thu Feb 6, 2025, 05:53 PM
Feb 6

your driver is wearing a mask!) and get tested for flu and Covid. Get a steroid shot to help dry up that nose. Also, you might have a bad case of sinusitis, and a course of antibiotics could be needed.
Also, get a bottle of Robitussin, Hall's Mentholyptus, cranapple or other juice with cranberries in it, beef consomme and chicken broth, chicken noodle soup, chicken and rice soup (easy to digest!) and other soups you like, will feel good on that throat. Theraflu might help but can upset the tummy. Make sure while at the store that you have plenty of aspirin/ibuprofen/tylenol for aches and pains. Otherwise any good otc decongestant will do if you don't get the steroid shot or to augment it.
Refresh eyedrops might help that eye or you might get medicated drops from your doc.
Warm salt water gargles are great, my Dad the career USAF Medic swore by them and I do too. Never tried the h. peroxide in the ear trick except to merely clean out the ear, but will keep it in mind for sure. Cat in lap is always a good idea.
Get well soon, will keep you in my prayers.
- signed, an old retired nurse.

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