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  • pacharan
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    Originally posted by MayContainNuts View Post
    That should be Spring bugs, surely. Winter finished in Feb!!!!!

    What Are The Winter Months In England?
    I would have said that spring began on March 21st - i.e. at the equinox

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  • Lockhouse
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    I always have a flu jab but seem to get a cough every year around Christmas time. This year I picked up a chest infection which took two lots of antibiotics to clear. I had to take two weeks compliance leave at the same time - by the time I'd got over my chest infection it was time to go back to work

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  • BrilloPad
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    The fitter I am the less lurgies I get.

    I also reckon Vitamin C and echinacea help - but that is probably psychological.

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by MayContainNuts View Post
    Drinking it or wearing it?!!!!! ;-)
    I reckon drinking it, like a bottle of ASDA's own brand whisky, would fend off the bugs for good.

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    I've spent the whole of my bench time with this. It's still left me with a cough.

    I don't like to think how I would have coped with work.
    I thought that was down to the cigar habit?

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  • MayContainNuts
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    Originally posted by hyperD View Post
    Hai Karate aftershave?
    Drinking it or wearing it?!!!!! ;-)

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
    Dunno - I'm just getting over a cold, but her indoors has a permanent cough, then again ex wife did too - maybe I give off some kind of pollution.
    Hai Karate aftershave?

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  • cojak
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    I've spent the whole of my bench time with this. It's still left me with a cough.

    I don't like to think how I would have coped with work.

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  • Peoplesoft bloke
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    Dunno - I'm just getting over a cold, but her indoors has a permanent cough, then again ex wife did too - maybe I give off some kind of pollution.

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  • Bagpuss
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    I don't get colds/chest infections anymore since I started using first defence. In case you are curious it isn't a medicine it's a medical device,the key to it being it stops the germs from spreading in your respiratory system.

    Vicks First Defence Nasal Spray - Cold Prevention

    Breakthrough cure for common cold | Mail Online

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  • Troll
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    Just gotten over that one but managed to keep on invoicing with lots of wfh.Agreed it's a nasty infection

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  • MayContainNuts
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    These bugs that have been going round this winter. Have seen colleagues pollaxed for a couple of weeks.

    One bloke had it so bad that he's irreparably damaged a lung.

    I had an awful cough that laid me out in bed for a week only for it to return 3 weeks later.

    We never used to get things like this years ago did we? Are we just getting soft or are the bugs getting more virulent?
    That should be Spring bugs, surely. Winter finished in Feb!!!!!

    What Are The Winter Months In England?

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  • pacharan
    started a topic Winter Lurgies

    Winter Lurgies

    These bugs that have been going round this winter. Have seen colleagues pollaxed for a couple of weeks.

    One bloke had it so bad that he's irreparably damaged a lung.

    I had an awful cough that laid me out in bed for a week only for it to return 3 weeks later.

    We never used to get things like this years ago did we? Are we just getting soft or are the bugs getting more virulent?

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