Airborne and Berocca
So it’s been a ridiculously busy week for me and I’ve been nobly fighting off the beginnings of a cold for several days now.
My battle plan is simple: at first signs of a cold, I drop an Airborne in a small cup of water, wait until it stops fizzing and drink. This vitamin-packed tablet always seems to stave off a cold for me if taken early.
I’m sure I read the fine print at some point in my life. But somehow the “take 3 tablets maximum” instructions got garbled into “take as needed.” Or maybe they changed the fine print from the time that I first started taking it to now. It turns out I may have overdosed on magnesium yesterday, as a result, and there may be some kidney stones coming my way due to the overdose of vitamin C. And worst? I woke up this morning with a sore throat and what feels much more like the middle signs of a cold, despite my regimen.
Drats!
Brits have their own version of an Airborne-type fizzy tablet called Berocca, which appears to be very similar – although theirs is marketed not as a cold remedy, but as a remedy for those living fabulous, urban, fast-paced lives. You take a Berocca before and wake up the next morning hangover-free. It is amazing (and for the record, Airborne does work similarly). Whether Berocca works to fight off the beginnings of a cold, I have no idea.
Have you taken Berocca or Airborne? Do you like it?
Posted on 2, November 2012, in British, Health and tagged airborne tablets, berocca, cold, Health, remedy, sick, vitamins. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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