10-11-2012, 02:05 PM
(10-11-2012, 12:43 AM)PatientZero Wrote: Oh dear, sounds like he's one of those people that thinks medicines are made out of some kind of "synthetic chemicals".
The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of natural remedies and cures that work just fine, most of the treatments I do myself are based around things I have around the house already, lemon, honey, oils, herbs and so on.
The problem is that people don't understand that most medicines, particularly the ones you can buy over the counter, work in exactly the same way but with more refined substances. Most, if not all, medications and drugs are extracted from plants, you can even extract them yourself if you have the equipment and know the process.
Anyway, that's besides the point really, sore throat, right.
Like Jetters said it could be an early symptom of an illness, or it could be one of the bajillion other causes, which are all fairly simple and boring so I won't go through them all.
(As a heavy smoker and a singer I can tell you first hand that you don't have to be sick to have a sore throat)
Best advice is to drink honey and lemon in hot water and make sure you're getting enough fluids, and generally treat it like any other illness, avoid smoking, spicy foods, alcohol, caffeine and other things that might aggravate it.
Should ease off in a day or two, but it can last upward of a week, if it hasn't gotten better after a couple of weeks you may have an infection and need a course of antibiotics, but unless there are other obvious symptoms you're pretty much healthy enough to go about your day like you normally would.
Yeah, I just went on as usual yesterday, just drank a bit more water than usual to try and ease it. But anyway it's better today, still oh-so-slightly sore but barely noticeable.
And yeah my dad's not so much about the synthetic chemicals as he is about just not using medicine if it's not necessary. He's just cautious about that sort of stuff. In any case I can't really discuss it properly because 1) I don't know about this stuff and 2) he's my dad so... y'know.
On another note, there was a fire on the top two floors of the flat next to the one across the road from us. It wasn't the worst thing ever, not sure if anybody got injured/killed, but there were flames coming out of one window. The fire department got it out eventually, but in the usual Egyptian fashion it wasn't as efficient as it should have been. In any case it's good that it didn't spread further down the flat.