Has anyone tried using Vicks vapor rub for congestion?

shardebhow · Post by **shardebhow** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:33 am

bdp522 wrote:That's right. The air intake is where you put the filters.

Brenda

2nd part of silly question. Does that mean to use this idea and/or the purrr system you take your filter off and put this in it's place?

bdp522 · Post by **bdp522** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:40 am

Nope, just set the pur-sleep or whatever right near the air intake. Leave all filters on the machine. If you find the aroma to be too strong, move it a little further away from the machine.

Brenda

jjposey · Post by **jjposey** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:15 am

Until I tried the pursleep I always kept a jar of Vicks right next to the intake/filters. I was able to get just a tiny whiff of the scent.
The VapoPads and waterless vaporizer sounds interesting!
joanna

shardebhow · Post by **shardebhow** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:22 am

bdp522 wrote:Nope, just set the pur-sleep or whatever right near the air intake. Leave all filters on the machine. If you find the aroma to be too strong, move it a little further away from the machine.

Brenda

Ahhhhh. Gotcha. Thanx. There I would have been. . .taking out the filter shoving something in the intake vent and asphixiating my self on an overdose of Vicks. . .some obituary. . ."She died of "Vicksation"

Bearded_One · Post by **Bearded_One** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:30 pm

I am looking at a jar of Vicks VapoRub Ointment that I bought yesterday at the drug store (with an expiry date of August 09) and on the front in a red box it says the following:

Nasal Decongestant / Cough Suppresant

According to the Vicks site at
http://www.vicks.com/vaporub-ointment.php#uses

Uses

* On chest and throat, temporarily relieves cough due to common cold
* On muscles and joints, temporarily relieves minor aches and pains

GrizzlyBear · Post by **GrizzlyBear** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:41 pm

Whoops. Just realised I misread the title of this thread - thought it said 'Has anyone tried using Vicks vapor rub for constipation?' I was a little taken aback, as you could imagine. That'll teach me to put on my reading glasses.

Regards,

Amused GrizzlyBear

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:33 pm

Oh Griz, you Aussies will put anything up your bum, won't you?

Here's an idea, take a cotton ball, rub it in the jar, and then set that on your PurSleep tray under your air intake. Might work. Or just smear it on a clean PurSleep pad.

Bret's working on a Eucalyptus blend. Says it will be out in February. Not MENTHOL, but...

Cheers,
B.

BigGayBert · Post by **BigGayBert** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:58 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

I know she didn't just go there!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:47 pm

Oh Bert honey, my "fans" on this board will tell you I regularly do.

Surf for "Babette" and "kitchen table".

LOL,
Babs - Who was just trying to get some Sleeping Aussies to wake up and come play...

GrizzlyBear · Post by **GrizzlyBear** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:07 pm

I must say that the eucalyptus stuff might go where the sun don't shine (although normally us koalas would stick it in our mouths!!!!) - its the menthol that would make our eyes pop.

Regards,

GrizzlyBear

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:34 pm

Hee hee hee!!!!

Now where IS Blarg? Silly boy, he's just too fat dumb and happy in the Sun to come play with us on the Forum. Newlyweds!!!!!

LOL,
B.

greyhound · Post by **greyhound** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:44 pm

The Vick's site also has a warning "Do not use in nostrils". Is this a round about way of saying that it shouldn't be inhaled.

sleepycarol · Post by **sleepycarol** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:59 pm

Babs,

What Blarg got married? That handsome devil!!!

When did this happen?

GrizzlyBear · Post by **GrizzlyBear** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:54 pm

I hope if he's on his honeymoon he's putting a jellybean in a jar for every time he does what my older son (10) calls 'Woohoos' (something to do with the Sims, I think) - then he can tell me if its true that every time after the first year you take a jellybean out you'll never empty the jar.

I heard this when i was a kid - I'm sure it's why my partner and I have never gotten married - just so we'll never reach the emptying the jar stage!!!!!

Regards,

GrizzlyBear

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:37 pm

I have used a few drops of Eucalyptus oil in the water of the humidifier when I had a cold, it worked well.

Has anyone tried using Vicks vapor rub for congestion?

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