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Strepsils Orange with Vitamin C

Advantages: Soothes your sore throat. Works to fight the infection and numbs the pain
Disadvantages: Some people maybe allergic to some ingredients

...soon found a packet of Strepsils Orange with Vitamin C and decided that they would do (after examining the expiry date of course). Now I usually can't stand the taste of throat sweets and Strepsils Original have never gone down well with me as I can't stand the flavour, however, I must say that these orange ones were actually quite nice. They taste just like orange, as is stated on the packet, which surprised me as usually they say it tastes of one ...
...Stepsils. There are:- Original Strepsils for effective relief of sore throats in either original, honey and lemon, orange with vitamin C or suger free flavours. Strepsils Extra for sharp and painful sore throats in either blackcurrent, cherry or citrus menthol flavours. Strefen for severely painful sore throats in cherry flavour only. Strepsils are available from most chemists and at Boots they are £1.40 for a packet of 24 lozenges (although ...

lolly1981 13.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Strepsils Lozenges

The Lozenge of Luurrrvvve

Advantages: They Are very soothing and taste quite nice...
Disadvantages: They have an E number in and they give me heartburn.

...The Product Well, Strepsils are admittedlly full of active ingredients that make no sense to me - I have no idea what Dichlorobenzyl is, and neither do I know what Amylmetacresol is, but I do know that these little yellow beauties (and yes, they have E104 in them, mores the pity) actually do what they say on the box. They are very soothing if you have a sore throat, and the peppermint oil and lemon oil in them does wonders for a blocked up nose. ...
...and a whole packet of Strepsils later, I still haven't managed to kick it into touch, whereas I know had I been self medicating with my herbal remedies, I would have been fighting fit by saturday morning... However, these are good for what they are. The pack Himself bought for me was from Tesco, and cost £2.28 for 16. the lozenges come in a box with the logo in black and the Strepsils sign in yellow. Inside you will find two silver foiled packets ...

phoenixgreen 05.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Strepsils Honey and Lemon

mr strepsil will need to get himself some defence

Advantages: Sneaking sugar into my diet
Disadvantages: See below

...big purple box with the Strepsils logo. Zinc Defence? Mmmm, must be even better for me. Chucked £3.45 at the checkout kid and wandered home sucking on one. (Not a checkout kid, a strepsil you dirty fool). Well they taste nice. OK, I'm on a diet, so this is the closest I have got to sweets for a while, but they are nicely blackcurrant. Which is a good bloody job cos they sure as hell aren't going to do anything about shifting my sore throat. After ...
...I want me some proper strepsils with good old traditional antiseptic and anaesthetic action. I'm very cross with Mr. Strepsil. He viciously traded on his name and made me pick up the wrong thing. I'm not feeling well! You can't expect me to read anything more closely than I did. On that basis, despite the nice taste, I am giving these 2 stars and not recommending them. And going off somewhere to sulk. I'm not well you know. ...

melee679 02.06.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Strepsils Zinc Defence Lozenges

dont touch it with a barge poll --- ADDICTIVE!

Advantages: unblocks your nose
Disadvantages: is badly addictive and once you're hooked you really cant get off the stuff! please dont bother

If i knew then (2 YEARS AGO) what i know now i would NEVER have touched sinex with a barge poll! lots of the reviews say this is addictive and trust me, they are right, and dont think it can't happen to you becuase it can. I started taking sinex one or two times a day for a cold, i works really well and very quickly. Becuase of this i kept using it as if i didnt my nose would block quickly and before you know it its 6 months down the line and i'm ...
...my little bottle of sinex it, it was ridiculous...being so dependant on sinex!! the thing is, if you use it for too long you get what is called rebound congestion, you nose just blocks really really badly and really quickly if you dont use it, so you feel like you have to use it to be able to breathe. My nose would completly block to the point where i could not breathe any air what so ever through my nose. The other thing is, as the rebound congestion ...

Lollyr82 20.11.2009 · Read full review

Review of Vicks Sinex Nasal Spray

Winter time calls for Halls Soothers!

Advantages: Soothing relief straight away - really does kiss your throat better!
Disadvantages: The price of an individual pack!

It's that time of year again, where the cold weather has arrived, the heating's on full blast, and everyone is starting to be struck down with the horrid illnesses that winter brings. My brother and mum have the cold bug at the moment, so i knew that it wouldn't be long until i ended up with it. In advance i went out and bought myself a packet of Soothers as i knew that soon my sore throat would be starting (that's usually the first sympton i get, ...
...sore throat did start, so i was glad to have my packet of soothers on hand. I bought a single pack from my local Spar shop for 78p - yes i know it's dear for a single pack, but we are in a recession! However the price is worth the releif you get. You can buy them in three packs from your big supermarkets (Tesco, Asda, Wilko's etc..) You can get Soothers in a variety of different flavours. Peach, Raspberry, Strawberry and Blackcurrant. I have tried ...

Claire230590 10.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Halls Soothers Peach & Raspberry