Lozengers/Strepsils

[please08]

Can we take these hall's lozengers or strepsils, I can barely talk got a cough that's tearing my throat waking me up every hour on the hour may seem a silly question but u know us first time mum's always being cautious

 

[Sherileigh]

Actually it's not a silly question...well I didn't think it was when I asked my pharmacist and she said NO. Good thing I asked...I was shocked. I just took some regular candies and sucked on those....my mom would get me to gargle warm salt water and that helped with the throat pain. Hope that works for you!

 

[massacubano]

Actually it's not a silly question...well I didn't think it was when I asked my pharmacist and she said NO. Good thing I asked...I was shocked. I just took some regular candies and sucked on those....my mom would get me to gargle warm salt water and that helped with the throat pain. Hope that works for you!

Wow hun they said no! Oh, I have used these when I had the flu pregnant. I feel like we are in a plastic bubble almost, nothing is safe!

What about Ricolla (sp) those are just herbal... hmmm

 

[Cariad_bach]

Ooh ive just read a thread on this somewhere but cant find it now....

...from what i remember it said that some were ok if there were basically just honey sweeties but some have a anaesthetic to numb the throat and those arnt safe.

I have a terrible bad cold/cough to hun,

Try warm lemon juice in water or even warm flat lemonade....the lemon is meant to strip your throat of gunk! xxx

 

[please08]

Amazing isn't it.........never realised we were so restricted from 'simple little things' as a pack of halls sweets oh throat is in agony can't even swallow.......all in all feel flipping miserable...............would I do it again 2mrw.............you bet ur life I would

 

[Sherileigh]

My personal belief is that it's men that are saying what is safe and what isn't...and I bet if they were the ones that had to carry the babies, they would find a way to make things safe! lol
Or the fact that it's hard to test these things out...on humans anyway...and nobody wants to say 'yeah, its' fine go ahead' when they just don't know.
As for the herbal stuff. I was told by my DR that a lot of the herbal stuff is dodgy..after all that's where a lot of meds come from is herbs. And they have medicinal like qualities...so some are safe some aren't.
When I read the posts about the Mcflurries from Mcdonalds..I thought alright that's enough. Now someone's just messing with us!

 

[massacubano]

My personal belief is that it's men that are saying what is safe and what isn't...and I bet if they were the ones that had to carry the babies, they would find a way to make things safe! lol