I'm on Keto and sick, Desperately looking for suggestions for Keto friendly cough syrup

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  • Maxxitt
    Maxxitt Posts: 1,281 Member
    edited April 2019
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    Check to see if there is a "federally qualified health center" near you, OP. They have sliding scale fees and don't check citizenship status. Edited to add - if your location is correct, they're called "Nevada Health Centers" in your area.
  • Keto_Vampire
    Keto_Vampire Posts: 1,670 Member
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    Colloidal Silver is amazing at knocking out illness. 3-5 tsp a day until not sick any more.

    Collodial silver is a substance that accumulates in your body and does absolutely nothing in terms of improving health or abating sickness. Also there's no chelation therapy as far as I know that can get it out of your system.

    Best not "smurf" oneself
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  • MrsLead
    MrsLead Posts: 8 Member
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    Walgreens has minute clinics that get you a healthcare provider and prescriptions pretty cheap without insurance. When my husband was waiting for his green card we used them a couple times.
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
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    As others have mentioned, sipping teas may help soothe the throat. When I was young, we used 7-Up and/or Ginger Ale for that purpose too... I'm not sure if there is a diet version of those types of drinks without aspartame, but some sodas have sucralose/Splenda instead of aspartame. I'm sure hydration from whatever soothing liquids you drink will help too.

    Even on a keto diet, you can have some small amounts of carbs and remain in ketosis. Unless you are taking well over the recommended amount, you can probably find cough medicine that has fewer carbs than your goal. Even if you go a bit over for the day, it is still worthwhile if it helps you heal.
  • avlucia
    avlucia Posts: 66 Member
    edited April 2019
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    yirara wrote: »
    avlucia wrote: »
    Gargle warm salt water, and/or lemon water. Neither of these are fixes but they should ease symptoms somewhat.

    Actually, lemon and salt both make it worse. Salt dehydrates and can cause more coughing symptoms in the throat, and lemon is very harsh in general (it's an acid after all), and throwing that on a sore spot is not good. I think lemon used with a cold stems from combining lemon juice with honey and maybe ginger. Honey is a natural antiseptic, lemon is full of vitamin C. Ginger.. no idea. It certainly helps against nausea and is tasty. But lemon itself will likely make things worse.

    https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/does-gargling-wlth-salt-water-ease-a-sore-throat

    https://shs.uconn.edu/educational-handouts/sore-throat/#

    https://podcasts.ufhealth.org/when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-lemon-water/

    https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/health-and-wellness/2018/february/sore-throat




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