The most Irish thing ever, my dad came in to my room and gave me a glass of flat 7up while I’m sick

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  1. It is basically the same as rehydration drinks.. a scientist in India taught all the mums in his state to make a simple rehydration drink with boiled water sugar and salt and it completely stopped under 2’s dying and being hospitalised with sickness and diarrhoea which was previously the biggest killer of under 2’s in the area.

  2. Must just be a parent thing, I’m American and my mother and grandmother did this for me all the time

  3. It was red lemonade in our house, left go flat and heated up in a pot. Don’t think the brand exists anymore 🙁

  4. After 8 years in Ireland I still don’t know how you flatten 7up on demand and at this point am too afraid to ask.

  5. Good old Irish medicine. My mam would always give me a hot whiskey when I got a cold, hated it at the time, now I can’t get enough of the medicine. I also remember playing GAA in school and injuring a back muscle, teacher brought me in a bottle of poitin and told me to take it home and mix it with some olive oil and rub it into the back. I went with the aural solution!!

  6. If doesn’t work anymore since they took most of the sugar out of it. Fairly sure the only drinks left with the full sugar are the original Coke and the Club Orange/Lemon/Rock Shandy drinks. Also EXTREMELY important to know if you’re trying to give them to a diabetic who needs sugar fast.

  7. Cures all of the below:

    Bronchitis,decapitation,severe haemorrhaging, internal bleeding,cancer,HIV/AIDS, tendinitis, broken bones, colds, ebola, heart disease, nerve damage, traumatic brain injuries, retinal damage, scurvy, syphilis, genital warts, the flu, arthritis,

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