Remember Vicks Vaporub as a kid? That horrible, menthol, smelly ointment your mom would smear on your chest when you were a kid, to help clear your stuffy nose?
Well, now they have it in a cream version.
We'd bought it a while ago, when Lou had a chest cold. And with my current cold (started as a sore throat on Friday, and by Sunday I was trying to not talk much because Lou said I kept "squeaking"), moving from my throat UP to my nose (aren't these things supposed to do this IN REVERSE??), I have been using the cream at night, to help me breathe a little bit.
I must say, this stuff still works. Better than any cough drop I take, or other medicine, this cream clears up my nose (only one nostril, alas, the other was far too blocked to be even moved a little bit by the powerful menthol) within a few whiffs of its pungent aroma.
I just have to keep Athena from licking me, since she's the one for weird tastes (like licking Blistex off my fingers). And maybe go see a doctor, if it keeps up.