Do you like drinking some awful syrups when you have caught cold?

May 17, 2010 5:18am CST
HEllo people! I know that we all have drunk some syrups when we still was kids, because we got cold and the doctor said so. I know how awful it was to me, but now it isn't. And what about you, do you still dislike/hate it? :)
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@tav_8164 (151)
• United States
18 May 10
I think all kids don't like cough syrup(except for mine anyway), even though they got some pretty tasty ones now a days. This probably has to do with someone telling the kid they have to. LOL! But now as an adult, not only do I know it is best that I follow the doctor's instructions. But usually I want to get better anyway and know that's the BEST way. As kids we think there is a magick remedy that isn't yucky, but parents are just to mean to give it to them! LoL!! I tolorate it now because I can 1)Chase it with whatever I want, and 2)Have a more traveled palate to stomach the taste.
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@tav_8164 (151)
• United States
18 May 10
This is true as far as the mis-diagnosis, but as a kid my parents would say I had to take my medicine cause the doctor said so... To me as a kid my parents didn't know more than a doctor so I did what the doctor said. These days I can't afford health care so I can't even go to a doctor so they can tell me what to do. I usually just wait it out if it isn't too bad. But about once a year I get ONE REALLY BAD cold that confines me to my house for at least a week! The only way to get over it is with medicine.
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19 May 10
yes, as kids we should listen to our parents, and do that what they have told us, but now when we are alerady adults, we can decide what to do by our own :)
18 May 10
well, about the doctor's instructions I am really not sure and can't agree, because i know many cases of wrong diagnoses with a lethal end and I really prefer to treat myself alone at home if it is not something serious then going to doctor :) I am so happy that nowadays I don't have to drink those syrups anymore
@aprilmmm (77)
• France
19 May 10
Yeah, some awful syrups smell really bad, but I often got sick when I was a kid, so I have got used to it, and I really like the injection, I prefer to get a injection rather than drink some syrups and eat some tablets. I don't know why, but until now, I still like to choose the injection when I am sick...
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20 May 10
well, i am really not sure what of these two would I prefer- the syrup or the injection because I was really scare of injection as a kid and the feeling itself, I know it wasn't something that painful, but i just hated it! maybe now I will choose the injection instead of the syrup
@med889 (5941)
17 May 10
Oh I remember a syrup which is of rose color and it was very sweet but I do not like to drink it,I simply hated the name syrup itself, it means you are very ill and you are being cured by something called a sweetener but which has medicines in it.
18 May 10
haha, guess you have a "sickness phobia" if there is something like that I also have drunk a sweet syrup just once, but I liked it really much. I can't actually remember what was its taste listening to Filo & Peri feat. Aruna- Ashley
@1anurag1 (3576)
• India
17 May 10
Yes i have drunk many times. There are some pet syrups which my mom used to give me in my childhood and some of them i use even today. But mostly i prefer not to have medicines. I think if i just take in each or my disease , my immunity system will get weaken , so i try to avoid for minor problems now.
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18 May 10
yes, my friend. I do it that way- when I am sick/have cold i only drink some tea and wait for it to go away, but I guess it is so becaues I have a strogn immune system and I easily get better, but if you think your immune system is not that well, you should not try i, because it can be dangerous for you!
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
17 May 10
Syrups really taste bad, but now they have some flavored ones. They are still awful but they are better than when I was young. If I get a cold now, I usually just take a pill. If I have a cough though the syrup seems to help calm it down. Also if my throat is sore, sometimes the syrup makes it feel a little better.
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18 May 10
well, I don't know what syrups are there now, because I haven't taken any since many years, but actually don't want to, because I guess I wont like them :) when my throat is sore, i only drink some hot tea or take some tablets
@nangisha (3495)
• Indonesia
17 May 10
Hello my friend!. I drink a lot medical syrup when I was child because that time I was so easy to sick. I have my own doctor who keep giving me a certain medicine. Thats way I don't like medicine in any form including syrup because when i was child I already consume it to many. Today I got caught I just made syrup from lemon lime or ketchup or eating loquat fruit I will feel much better.
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18 May 10
hell0 there! well, I wasn't sick that often as a kid, but every time I caught cold my mother supposed to bring me to doctor and he always gave me these syrups can you imagine how "HAPPY" i was to see him with the syrup or the recipe for it in hand hope iwill never have to drink them again
@picjim (3002)
• India
17 May 10
Normally i swallow a tablet when i have a cold.Its the cough that forces me to take the syrup.I find these syrups useful in reducing cough.Though i took them with reluctance in the beginning,i now take them without fuss as they help in alleviating cough.
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18 May 10
yes, they are really useful otherwise people wont use them , but I don't like how they taste till date I have only once tried a syrup which was with a really good taste and I even wanted to drink it after I got better!
• China
17 May 10
Yes i hate syrup or t ablate for there bad smell and bad test. Oh the smell of syrup is too bad. When i read discussion i remember some bad smell syrup. But still some time i take some syrup when i caught cold.
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18 May 10
yes, they realy taste and soemtimes also smell awful to me when I was a child and I guess that will still taste that bad now, but fortunately I don't drink them any more, I guess I have drunk a lot of these syrups as a child and now I have a immunity against caughting cold