With COVID fears have come a flood of home remedies and preventive measures from do-gooders, self-styled experts, grandma’s wisdom peddlers and the WhatsApp wizardry industry ever ready with an opinion, information and advice.

The intent behind most of these purported treatments is good, these are given by people who vouch that they are age-old measures helping for coughs, colds and fevers. A top doctor of a jumbo COVID hospital in the Western suburbs though has stated that all these antidotes, self-help remedies need to be practised with good sense and some restraint.