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Medical translation question: is epithelial debris just dead skin? When I google image search it, why do I get so many pictures of eyes?
This isn't a personal medical concern! My reason for being interested is that the word often translated "scales" in Acts 9:18 ("scales" fell off Paul's eyes) is glossed in a larger dictionary I have as 'epithelial debris.'
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IANAD, but the goop you get in the corner of your eyes is debris from the skin of the eyes. (Per my eye doc.)
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Anyone got any advice for dealing with a cold? I haven't had a bad one for years, since I retired, and I have no idea where I could have picked this one up. Apparently I'm not the only one round here to have had a repeat infection, either, but the first one was pretty mild. Came on fast, went just as fast, within a day.
This one is prickling my nose (used inhalation of Friars' Balsam), blocking my ears, drying my throat (chocolate peppermint creams usually sort that, but not this time - I've moved on to vinegar and honey). And I have a persistent dry cough. And sneezes. No temperature. Yet. I'm taking tablets with paracetamol (can't do aspirin or ibuprofen) and some other stuff for mucus and coughs, but it's getting to me. Second day, and the cough is the worst thing.
Don't feel much like eating, certainly not food with any texture, and have laid in supplies of gloopy stuff - mostly desserts, which aren't exactly nutritious. Didn't feel like any of the nutritious soups I have stocked the freezer with. Had mash doctored with egg and topped with cheese and a dollop of tomato ketchup earlier.
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I have to put in the usual caveat about medical advice here.
But since there is, notoriously, no cure for the common cold I think it's OK to mention strategies for making oneself comfortable while it's going on. I'm one for the steaming over a bowl of hot water with a few drops of peppermint and eucalyptus. But, IMO, it's a matter of staying hydrated, retiring to a sofa, and demanding sympathy.
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I have learned that if I get as much rest and sleep as possible, especially when the cold begins, it goes away a lot faster.
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whiskey is traditional. With lemon. You may not -get- better any faster, but you will feel better.
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I always drink copious quantities of vegetable juice. I don't know if it does any good, but I like to think it does.
Bubble baths are good too - but then bubble baths are always good.
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But, IMO, it's a matter of staying hydrated, retiring to a sofa, and demanding sympathy.
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Reading ability somewhat limited at the moment. The words "chicken soup" inserted themselves into my mind, and I had some last night. I am making some today by throwing a chow mein ready meal into the slow cooker with water and some more chicken stock. (Actual chicken content in shop soups is very low.)
I may have some whisky about. I have a bottle of lemon juice. And honey.
I can't relax. The scaffolders are on their way, and will, at some time, be staring in the window...
My throat feels like sandpaper. Isn't there something about onions in tradition remedy land?
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Anyone got any advice for dealing with a cold?
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Don't feel much like eating, certainly not food with any texture, and have laid in supplies of gloopy stuff - mostly desserts, which aren't exactly nutritious. Didn't feel like any of the nutritious soups I have stocked the freezer with. Had mash doctored with egg and topped with cheese and a dollop of tomato ketchup earlier.
Some curries are quite textureless (depends on how bad your local takeaway is). I find a really hot curry can get that blocked nose a bit more runny and aid breathing.
And get a box set of The West Wing.
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I've always found that the zinc tablets sold under the brand name Zicam (or their generic equivalent) are indeed helpful. The regimen is supposed to be begun at the first sign of a cold, but I've found that they can help once the cold is established also.
But with persistent cough and loss of appetite (especially if accompanied by chill), I would check in with the doctor if I were you to be sure it isn't pneumonia.
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The cough is originating in my throat, so I doubt if it is pneumonia, but I will bear that in mind. No temperature at the moment. I think I have some zinc tablets somewhere, will check. I'd forgotten those.
It's not exactly loss of appetite, I've just managed a good bowl of soup (blitzed chicken chow mein with water and two blocks of Knorr chicken stock, very nice, will do it again). It's more lack of energy to do any cooking, wanting stuff that will slither past the sore throat, and not wanting very pronounced flavours (so the curry isn't really on). Fruity yogurts and fools are good.
I don't know if the chicken soup is going to work remedially.
And I have the perpetual noise of the scaffolders' nut tightening machine - they are currently outside the bathroom window. Oddly, they don't seem to be going up as high as the bit of the building that needs painting.
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Penny S
Is the work on the house producing either fumes or dust? If so, that could be the reason for the cough - fumes would explain the general feeling of malaise.
To help the cough, try the old remedy of wringing out a hand-towel in cold water (drop of menthol optional) and placing over a radiator.
The ultimate could be to hire an ionic air purifier for a day and see if that helps: if it works, you need one while the works are ongoing.
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Penny S
Is the work on the house producing either fumes or dust? If so, that could be the reason for the cough - fumes would explain the general feeling of malaise.
To help the cough, try the old remedy of wringing out a hand-towel in cold water (drop of menthol optional) and placing over a radiator.
The ultimate could be to hire an ionic air purifier for a day and see if that helps: if it works, you need one while the works are ongoing.
Thanks. But the work is all outside, only painting, with no internal fumes so far, and not happening at the moment - nor is the scaffolding, all is silent.
No heating at the moment, due to an airflow problem with the gas fired warm air system, but I do have plug in heaters which can't have wet towels - on the other hand, I also have a fan with an ionising function, in my bedroom, and I'll try it now. Hadn't thought of that. And I could probably put a wet towel over a clothes-horse in front of a fan heater.
Feeling better since the soup. Managed to eat a couple of biscuits. Had to chew them up to pap before swallowing.
I shall start to watch my stockpile of old Dr Who. About my current intellectual level.
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I had a really bad cold a few years ago with symptoms very similar to yours, Penny. I don't know whether it was just a coincidence, but it seemed to get better very quickly after I ate some really strong garlic bread. Isn't garlic supposed to be good for you?
You'd probably have to make it yourself though, because commercially produced garlic bread would be more accurately described as 'Hint of Garlic' or 'May contain traces of garlic'.
Some kind of soup or stew with lots of garlic in might be easier to eat if your throat is very sore.
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I often gargle with garlic tea.
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Piglet and I both reckon you can never have too much garlic.
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I love garlic. But I also like to socialise occasionally, so I monitor my consumption.
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My mother used to dose us with a noxious liquid called Liqufruta, of which the dominant taste was garlic. It has left me with a permanent dislike of the stuff. (It is still available on-line, and described as a syrup, which it never was. The active ingredient, apart from the garlic, is one I am currently taking in tablet form.) I will look for garlic capsules.
I definitely feel better immediately after the soup.
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
whiskey is traditional. With lemon. You may not -get- better any faster, but you will feel better.
A famous cold (or flu) remedy -- which I have never tried -- is as follows:
Place a bottle of whiskey on the bedside table and get in bed. When you can perceive two bottles on the bedside table, you should be cured! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Originally posted by Penny S:
My mother used to dose us with a noxious liquid called Liqufruta, of which the dominant taste was garlic. It has left me with a permanent dislike of the stuff. (It is still available on-line, and described as a syrup, which it never was. The active ingredient, apart from the garlic, is one I am currently taking in tablet form.) I will look for garlic capsules.
I definitely feel better immediately after the soup.
I remember Liquifruta! not so much as a cold remedy, but my mother fed it to me when she thought I needed a tonic (I was a small and skinny kid). My memory of it is that it was sweetish, I don't remember garlic!
And for a cold - best I can recommend is vitamin C with zinc. It definitely helps.
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There was a garlic free version of Liqufruta, which still tasted foul. (presumably it was for vampires!) We had Minadex for a tonic. And something with strychnine in it.
Found the zinc tablets. Bad night, in which I had to sleep with umpteen pillows to keep me up - I found it hard to breathe while lying down. But a lot better now.
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But a lot better now.
Splendid. I expect we've mined out our collective wisdom on cold remedies.
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The cheapest petrol in my area is 101.9 per litre. The most expensive is 112.9. Both are the same brand and about 2 miles apart. Why is there such a massive difference?
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Spike -- it goes against everything I think about the big oil companies, but the reason is local competition. Some small provider in one locality has dropped the price, and the local outlet of the big company has followed suit.
Around here, the local outlets of the relatively small company always are lowest, with the adjacent (but only the adjacent) branches of the big ones follow along. You can drive one of the local 4-lane streets and meet a range of as much as 5-9 cents/litre within the 10 minutes it takes to drive 5-6 kilometres.
The price at any one outlet here routinely varies by up to 10 cents/litre on any given day, depending on the competition. We always buy at the end of the day as a result.
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The cheapest petrol in my area is 101.9 per litre. The most expensive is 112.9. Both are the same brand and about 2 miles apart. Why is there such a massive difference?
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Hmm. Both posts are the same brand but one post apart. There is no massive difference. Spike, did you mean to say something different or shall I delete your duplicate post?
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Someone has figured out that they can charge more in the one location and get the money. Freakanomics (the book) discussed this in relation to coffee shops and transit/rail/tube stations. Because of location they can get away with additional pricing.
Weirdly, we have about 8 different "brandnames" of gasoline here, but it all comes of the same 3 refineries. I understand that there are about that many refrigerator manufacturers but about 17 brandnames of those too.
As a comparison, I had a discussion with someone building a garage at a lakeside cottage. The same building, same dimensions and zoning requirements, in a farm community 100 km away was $6,000 cheaper. People sometimes accept prices I guess.
As an aside, gasoline where I live is 50% of your cost.
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Hmm. Both posts are the same brand but one post apart. There is no massive difference. Spike, did you mean to say something different or shall I delete your duplicate post?
Don't know what happened there
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Weirdly, we have about 8 different "brandnames" of gasoline here, but it all comes of the same 3 refineries.
It all starts out at the same base specifications, but some brands have additional additives. Whether these matter is debated.
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I understand that there are about that many refrigerator manufacturers but about 17 brandnames of those too.
The quality of any particular appliance is about the specifications of its manufacture, not the factory it came from. And this can vary like hell. Not only from brand to brand and line to line, but even within the same production run.
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What I want to know is how two gas stations can sit directly across the street from each other and have a 10 cent or more difference in price from one another pretty much ALL the time, and the more expensive one doesn't go out of business. I've seen this scenario several times, and I've always wondered if the more expensive, nearly deserted place is just a front for the Mafia or something.
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I almost always go to the same petrol station because a) it's the nearest to where I live and b) when I first got my car I was completely unfamiliar with the process and scared stiff that I might accidentally put the wrong kind of petrol in or break the car, pump or nozzle or something. Also, other kinds of petrol might not be fully compatible with my original kind. (You can think like that when you're still very new to the process.) So I got used to going to the same one.
Having since got used to the process, I still go there now basically through habit and convenience. It's usually a couple of pence cheaper at the petrol station further down the road, but if I were to go there the exit leads onto a complicated sort of road system that involves a stupid sort of detour and some fast thinking if you don't want to end up negotiating several roundabouts.
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This site is recommended by MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis for finding your cheapest petrol. I haven't used it, but I think my sister has.
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It's OK, but not flexible enough to include a route one might follow, and I can't see more than 10 garages in order to find one that isn't one I don't go to.
Though free, it does seem to limit the searches to 20.
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... two gas stations can sit directly across the street from each other and have a 10 cent or more difference in price ...
I know what you mean, LC. When we moved here, petrol prices seemed to be more-or-less standard throughout the city, a couple of cents cheaper in one of the suburbs and more expensive the further you got from St. John's. If one filling-station changed their prices (up or down) they all did.
However, a few years ago, things changed and there are quite noticeable price differences, sometimes between two petrol stations quite close to each other.
One factor that developed recently was that Costco opened a petrol station, which is cheaper than most of the others*, so the ones on the road out to Costco lowered their prices accordingly, but it still doesn't really explain everything.
* although one brand has a loyalty card that gives 3½c off per litre, which usually cancels out the difference.
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Re the cold. I'm sitting here with a horrible head cold I've been working through for the last month.
I think tomorrow I'll make a chicken soup. Toss some chicken thighs in water with parley, onion, celery, garlic, minced ginger and later noodles. If the garden still has some dill I'll toss that in along with some lemon juice. The store stock and canned ones tend to be high salt which is not good for me. Others can add salt and pepper, and a dried chili pepper or two which helps dry up the cold.
Even if you have to make it yourself, it's a comforting recipe. It doesn't remind me of childhood (mom fed me Lipton's chicken noodle from a packet) but it is consoling.
Oh, if you are starting to get cold sores, check with your pharmacist. There's one expensive ointment which if started early minimizes them. All the others are nothing more than lubrication like beeswax or petroleum.
Get well.
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Toss some chicken thighs in water with parley,
Must be some dangerous chicken.
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Help - bear of little brain signing in, Which f key will take me back from having a full screen on my computer please?
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Yay - That works, thanks CK. I was tempted to push them all ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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'Prayer for the Day' on BBC Radio 4 this week has a certain Andrea Rea doing it. She seems American, and I personally don't find her thoughts too inspiring. YMMV, of course. But who on God's good earth is she? She doesn't sound very theological. What's her background?
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Wesley J: 'Prayer for the Day' on BBC Radio 4 this week has a certain Andrea Rea doing it.
Pushing F11?
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She actually had me push the 'sound off' button, and not for the first time this week. That's why I'd like to find out more about her. Searching her name hasn't resulted in much conclusive evidence, except she may have a programme on BBC Norn Irn. But I'm not sure it's her, and why she would be doing 'Prayer for the Day'.
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I have a question for an American legal beagle.
What advantage does an Alford plea have for a defendant? As I understand it, an Alford plea is not an admission of guilt, but an admission that there is enough evidence to convict the defendant.
I don't completely understand this.
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I have a question for an American legal beagle.
I'm not any kind of canine-at-law, but until one of our learned friends surfaces, I'll have a go.
It seems to be an artifact of the plea bargaining that riddles the US legal system. Functionally, it's just a normal guilty plea - with a plea bargain, a defendant will often plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid charges of a greater offense (with a greater potential penalty) being brought.
The Alford plea allows a defendant who wishes to maintain that he is innocent to nevertheless cut his losses and accept a guilty plea to a lesser charge, without actually having to say that he is guilty.
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I’m thinking of getting a keysafe for my mother’s house, so that carers will have access – does anyone have any recommendations for one that holds two keys, that can be fitted externally? A look on the internet suggests that there’s a straight choice between either ones with a rotary combination (which relies on someone scrambling the dials back after use so that the opening combination isn’t visible to burglars) or else ones with a push button keypad. Almost all of these require a four-digit code, but apparently with almost every model I've seen so far, the code numbers can be entered in any order, which I’d have thought makes it much more easy for someone to hack.
Any recommendations? I don't want to splurge out a vast sum on this but I do want safety.
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Moo--
IANAL, but I gather it's pretty much as Learning Cnight said. The plea is called "no contest". I think the Latin is "nolo contendre".
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Penny S
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Ariel, from seeing the combination locks at school, of the press button kind, after a while the numbers become worn, which rather gives the game away. With the rotary ones, you have to be sure the carer will rotate the cams separately.
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