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What helps you when ill? Need some tips! (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by lustrum to c/[email protected]

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I'm full of cold or flu. Taken some paraceptamol to reduce the fever. What do you like to do to feel better even for a short period of time. Need some tips! Feeling so crap

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soup always makes me feel better. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, just something hot and healthy and tasty. And a piece of bread to mop up afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My mother always made chicken soup when I was sick with a cold/flu. I always felt worse afterwards and she would be upset when I told her because "that's so unkind to say", like it was a criticism of her cooking. It took me so many years to figure out that I am slightly allergic to celery which I was only fed when I was already sick ...