My. Throat. Is. Sore.

It hurts to swallow, my eyes are watering and I feel like crap. :glurps_tb:

This happens to me every year. It goes like this: I go to the Doctor to get a prescription for my ‘flu shot, I go to the Chemist to pick it up, I go home and put it in my ‘fridge, then, before I get a chance to go back to the Doc so he can actually poke me, I get some kind of cold or virus rendering me incapable of having the ‘flu shot. You shouldn’t apparently have it while you aren’t well.

My plan therefore for the weekend, is to sit and watch my entire boxed set of Sex and the City and sip tea with lemon and munch on vegemite toast, my favourite “food to be consumed when you feel like crap”.

I didn’t go to work today, but I did make it out to pick up some sore throat gargle and pick up my package at the post office (which shall be the subject of a post all of its own), but not before I trawled the interweb looking for do it yourself throat remedies.

There appear to be a number of schools of thought on home remedies for sore throats, the first is pickle juice, yes, pickle juice! Rod from Alpharetta, GA says (amongst other things) “I tried the Pickle juice and amazingly enough it relieved my sore throat almost instantly. Thank you very much. I will be passing along this home remedy for many years to follow.”

The second sworn to be true remedy involves apple cider vinegar. Now neither of these two involve gargling. You’re supposed to actually DRINK them.

Now I am one of the very few completely pro-pickle people in Australia, but I would have to say that chugging pickle juice straight down is not appealing! I say not appealing, but I tell you, if this doesn’t ease up soon, I might have to give it a go. I’ve got a dodgy half-finished jar of dill pickles in the ‘fridge circa 2004, so the juice should have aged beautifully by now…

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