Pickles by Brian Crane for May 29, 2023

Earl has a point. Not a good one however. Also like Opal’s bunny slippers.

Earl’s right. Those cold medicines don’t help you get over the cold any sooner. The best they can do is reduce your symptoms a bit until you finally get over it.

Some of the stuff that’s available to me makes me feel less awful for whole hours (two) at a time. Best cure for colds, imo, is to pee a lot. (Advice from my mother) and sleep as much as possible. For about 5 to 8 days. And take acetaminophen every 4 to 6 hours unless you’re asleep at that time… to keep the fever lower and thus reduce fever-symptoms.

7 is better then 1

Cold medicines only help you feel better they don’t cure the cold

Hey wait a minute . . . seven days is a week.

Extra alcohol usually helps!

Cold? The new terminology (which I recently coined) is “Super-short COVID”.

He could take Granny Clampett’s cold cure.

“Of course, Opal. I took a whloe bunch of deep breaths in a crowded doctor’s office.”

Earl battles this issue with plenty of tissue…

Garlic and raw apple cider vinegar apparently didn’t chase the germs away.

If you pamper it, it will just want to come back.

I guess Earl does not fully understand the concept of time.

Do the math, babe.

Good maths, Earl lol

So there are pills for other ills, but none for the chills?

7 days listening to Opal makes Earl “Weak”!

all the medicine does is treat the symptoms. It doesn’t make one better.

This is true.

Reducing the symptoms is the point. You still have the cold, but don’t have as much aches, fever or runny nose.

A cold lasts two weeks without treatment, or 14 days with.

Nothing CURES a cold, it only masks the symptoms for a few hours at a time.

When my wife feels a cold coming on, she request that I make my chicken soup/stew. Helps know that cold in its tracks.

Either way….works for Earl! Opal, don’t you have cookies to bake?

OK, Earl was never the brightest bulb on the tree, but he is always good for a chuckle.

If you take a few zinc tablets as soon as you feel a cold coming on it will not develop and you won’t need any cold remedies. Zinc stops the virus from replicating and allows your body to kill off the few that have infected you before there is enough to gang up and make your life miserable.

The Beverly Hillbillies had an episode like that. Granny had an elixir that cured the common cold – took a week to ten days.

Yup, but Nyquil will allow you to sleep right through it. It is said Benadryl is great too.

Haven’t had a cold since the kids grew up.

Kinda like Earl’s way – ride it out. Some will disappear in a few days, some longer. But adding OTC meds might cross over against the meds taken for more serious conditions faced by people his age – and mine.

He likes to suffer- -“Let it be”

what’s the difference? :\

Lol…..so true!

He may be fortunate in getting better in six days.

Or maybe even in just half a dozen days.

Opal, just keep a full glass of water at his elbow and place a trash basket by the chair.

Earl has it right.

atta boy Earl….atta boy!

I thought the joke was between 6 and a half dozen.

OK fine……. then SUFFER..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is absolutely right.

brilliant deduction, Sure-luck Holmes

….not unlike Granny’s recipe from The Beverly hillbillies.

A saline rinse using a Neti pot would relieve the symptoms and promote healing.

Seven days, makes one weak…

Cold medicine makes me feel worse and he is so right.

Now who can argue with that? ;-p

I had one that was advertised to work in a fortnight, but it took two weeks to kick in.

100 proof peppermint schnapps relieves the symptoms and makes you recover more quickly.