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Awww geez, mom!!!!
When you were just a toddler or child, we're you ever subjected some rather unpleasant home or over the counter remedies for you childhood ills and ailments? Did you just hate the remedies, or did these efforts get you back up to your healthy standard?
Anytime I or my siblings got nausea from a childhood illness or a flu or cold, my mother would run right out to the neasest place that served fountian sodas, and bring back a cup of pure Coke syrup and feed it to us by the tablespoon.
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| November 22, 2006, 12:43 |
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Re: Awww geez, mom!!!!
Cod liver oil was the staple for us kids back in the winters of the 1950's and 1960's. My mother made us take it every day till spring.
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| November 22, 2006, 14:29 |
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azcapt
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phoenix, Arizona, US
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I have to agree with Chazzy on this one. Pure Coke Syrup and Castor Oil were the most common household remedies in my day also.
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| November 22, 2006, 15:18 |
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Re: Awww geez, mom!!!!
My mom sooo rocked...she would mix lemon juice, bourbon, and honey together for cough syrup.
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| November 22, 2006, 16:17 |
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GG317
60 / male
Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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For my mom it was, "Vicks Vapor Rub" and an old humidifier. That thing would put a layer of water on everything in the room by morning. Made getting out bed, an adventure in itself... You could sudo ice skate across the room with no trouble at all... 
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| November 22, 2006, 16:48 |
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I remember on a family trip out east in my youth. We went thru ther smokey mountains and I became ill. To helpo cure this, I had to eat Vicks vapor rub. I tasted terrible, but did cure me. :D
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| November 22, 2006, 20:31 |
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NRG4U
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Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Awww geez, mom!!!!
The minute any of us got sick, it was dad who would come in with Vicks vapo rub, & rub a layer of that crap & he would rub & rub that into our chest, until you felt like a greased pig. Then he would shove a bunch of that stinkin crap up our nose. Mom would pour chicken broth, or chicken noodle soup down us as fast as we could gulp it.
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| November 22, 2006, 20:51 |
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Castor oil was the "cure all" in my family....yuck!!!
F Lev
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| November 22, 2006, 23:47 |
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Re: Awww geez, mom!!!!
For a sore throat - bengay and a handtowel fastened around my neck. My children have never gotten the pleasure! Oh, yes - and don't forget to gargle with salt water!!
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| November 23, 2006, 00:07 |
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dave2big
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somewhere, Nebraska, US
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i can remember at 13 catching a viscious cold that had my head stuffed up tight. mom pourd boiling water into a large aluminum bowl, and my dad put a big towel over the bowl, AND my head. had to stay under that thing for what seemed like hourm but when i finally was allowed out, my nose was running and i DID feel lots better.
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| November 23, 2006, 02:10 |
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Re: Awww geez, mom!!!!
When I was sick while living at home, I was spoiled. She cleaned up after me, she gave me medicine, made sure I ate crackers, soup, whatever the case, etc.
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| November 23, 2006, 10:24 |
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Re: Awww geez, mom!!!!
I hated the calamine lotion treatment whenever I got poison ivy, I had school friends whose mothers used a diluted bleach and water solution, and they always recovered days sooner than I did.
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| November 24, 2006, 10:11 |
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