Suffering from colds and flu can really get you down and in my opinion you can't beat a good lemsip for making you feel comforted inside. I wouldn't particularly say they knock a cold on the head but the lemon taste I find soothing.

This particular lemsip is lemsip with a kick its lemon and menthol flavour give you an extra and somewhat weird sensation when you drink it. To prepare your lemsip you need to empty your sachet which contains 4.8g of powder into a cup boil your kettle then I fill my cup up with part boiled water and some cold water from the tap and mix to make sure its not going to burn me when I drink it. Once you take a sip this one is weird you feel the warmness of the drink but if you inhale the cool menthol vapours get you as well and you can feel them clearing your nose as well and to be honest I am not sure that I like it. The recommended dose for these is 1 sachet every 4 hours for 12+ not recommended for under 12s and have no more than 4 a day.

So what's in them:
Paracetamol Ph.Eur. 650mg, Phenylephrine hydrochloride BP10mg, surcose and aspartame.

From the Home Bargains shop you can get 10 sachets in a box for £2.50 which is good when you consider you will pay around £5 in a pharmacy.

This product is good and does perk you up when you have a cold the only problem is I don't like the menthol experience and it sometimes make me feel a bit sick so for me I shall stick to the normal lemon and blackcurrant ones without the extra kick.