Ten cold and flu remedies you need in your medicine cabinet – all for under £5 each
TISSUES at the ready, cold and flu season is on the way.
No matter how diligently you wash your hands and bin the tissues, chances are you’ll be struck down at some point.
To make sure your medicine cabinet is in good shape, Ella Walker looks at what we’ll be relying on to keep us healthy over the chillier months.
Best of all, they’re all under a fiver.
Peach ethical vapour rub, £1.99, Boots
Packed with menthol and eucalyptus oil, this vapour rub – suitable for over-twos – will have you breathing easily again.
Apply a small amount to the chest to break up congestion, or add it to hot water and breathe in the steam.
READ MORE ON HEALTH NEWS
Boots Glycerin blackcurrant throat pastilles, 99p
Pop one of these throat sweets to beat soreness.
Suitable for anyone over the age of four, these fruit pastilles contain proper blackcurrant juice and glycerin to help soothe scratchy throats.
Most read in The Sun
Kleenex balsam pocket tissues, eight-pack, £2, Sainsbury’s
Avoid getting a raw, red nose by making sure you’ve got a packet of these handy tissues at all times.
They contain aloe vera and vitamin E, which toughens up your immune system, helping to ward off illness.
And the balm helps to protect the tender skin around the nose.
Sainsbury’s max strength congestion relief, 12 pills, £1.25
Feeling congested? Try one of these pills, which are non-drowsy and will set to work on your blocked nose and mucous build-up.
Vicks inhaler, £2.50, Tesco
For quick relief on the go, this handy inhaler contains menthol, camphor and Siberian pine needle oil and will help to beat a stuffy nose.
Tesco paracetamol, 16-pack, 29p
The NHS advises treating aches and pains caused by a cold with paracetamol, which can also help lower your temperature.
Don’t exceed the dose, and make sure you aren’t doubling up if you are drinking cold and flu sachets as well.
Superdrug dry tickly cough syrup 200ml, £4.49
A tickly cough can be incredibly annoying and painful.
However, this soothing cough mixture, flavoured with lemon and lime and containing honey, should put a stop to it.
Superdrug cold and flu relief sachets, ten-pack, £2.99
The branded drink sachets might stretch the budget, but Superdrug’s own version will still do the job.
With painkiller paracetamol and decongestant phenylephrine, these all-rounders should ease your fever, blocked nose, headache, sore throat and aches.
Anadin Extra triple action caplets, 12-pack, 93p (was £1.49) Lloyds Pharmacy
For a triple whammy, these drugs contain aspirin, caffeine and paracetamol, giving you a supercharged way to combat sore throats, muscle aches and cold and flu symptoms.
The caffeine will pep you up a bit.
Lloyds Pharmacy 90 adult vitamin D tablets, £4.49
Read More on The Sun
We all need vitamin D for healthy bones, and some research has linked a deficiency with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and low mood.
During the winter months we struggle to get our full quota from the sunshine, so top up with a supplement like this one, instead.
- IF your cold symptoms don’t improve after three weeks, you have a high temperature, chest pain or feel hot and shivery, contact your GP. The same goes for your children.