I’ll state right up front that I have science behind this… I only have one shop seller’s claims and one personal experiment! :)<\/p>\n
I took my nephew here<\/a> today (rubbish website, fantastic sweet shop!) and I over-heard the conversation before me: the lovely lady behind the counter (sorry I never got your name!) told the guy she was serving to suck on one particular kind of sweet to handle changes in temperature. Knowing that this was a problem for people with bugs (see this post)<\/a> my ears pricked up.<\/p>\n I asked and I bought 50 pence worth and I tried it…. and based on one simple walk in the chilly air with the tail end of a chest infection, I can say that it works….. :) The scientist in me is squirming as I right, but what the hell, it’s the New Year Holiday!<\/p>\n To add to the hints I gave before (more to come) I’m delighted to add something else to the armoury: hardboiled, clove flavoured sweets.<\/p>\n I’m told (and I’ve not been able to verify this) that the ‘magic ingredient’ is the same as in the basic dentist anaesthetic.<\/p>\n Like I say, I’ve no science behind this but on the basis of one trial, it appears to work…… besides, it’s always fun to try :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll state right up front that I have science behind this… I only have one shop seller’s claims and one personal experiment! :) I took my nephew here today (rubbish website, fantastic sweet shop!) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-blog-related","category-presentation-tips","category-voice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}