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Inside Health: How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?

How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?

As cold and flu season nears, James finds out what the remedies in his cabinet do to help.

Cold and flu season is drawing in and, this year, James Gallagher wants to know more about what the remedies in his medicine cabinet actually do to help when he gets ill.

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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