How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As the nights draw in and the spluttering sounds of coughs and colds seem to be all around us, presenter James Gallagher is getting ahead this year and stocking up his medicine cabinet. He gets some help from Inside Health’s resident GP Margaret McCartney and virologist Lindsay Broadbent from the University of Surrey to take look at a few of the nation’s best-loved remedies and find out what they will actually do to help him when he, inevitably, gets ill.
Presenter: James Gallagher
Speakers: Dr Margaret McCartney, GP and expert in evidence-based medicine Dr Lindsay Broadbent, Lecturer in Virology at the University of Surrey Reshma Malde, Superintendent Pharmacist, John Bell & Croyden
Producer: Tom Bonnett
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| 0:46.0 | Now, the nights are starting to draw in. |
| 0:48.1 | I think I'm starting to get that sense of inevitability at some point over the next weeks |
| 0:52.8 | and months I'm going to get hit with the usual |
| 0:55.5 | bout of winter coughs and colds so I'm getting ahead of myself this year I'm getting prepared |
| 1:00.2 | I'm stockpiling my medicine cabinet I'm at home at the moment and I've got a couple of friends |
| 1:08.9 | a resident GP Dr Margaret McCartie's doing a house call. |
| 1:11.8 | Hi Margaret. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm thrilled to be here, James. |
| 1:14.3 | And also Dr. Lindsay Broadbent, a virologist from the University of Surrey. |
| 1:18.9 | Hello. |
| 1:19.4 | Hello, James. |
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