Vicks Vapolozenges Berry 2.5g x24

Vicks VapoLozenges carry the brand's signature menthol vapour action in a dissolving lozenge. The dissolving base bathes and lubricates a raw throat, sucking stimulates saliva that soothes and quiets the tickle, and the released menthol acts on airway cold receptors for that unmistakable clearing sensation up the nose and down the chest. It is honest symptomatic comfort in a pocketable form for the coughing, scratchy days of a cold. Berry rounds out the flavour range, popular with teens who refuse medicinal-tasting lozenges.

Between doses of anything stronger, a lozenge is the treatment you can repeat all day: moisture, menthol and something to do with a tickling throat in a meeting. Because a lozenge works only while it dissolves, the pack in the pocket matters more than the strength on the label; this is the format you can keep going all day.