WHAT’S your first defence when your child gets the sniffles?
From that first tickly cough or stuffy nose, mums jump into action to find a remedy.
While kids’ cough medicines and soothing menthol rubs can calm a chesty infant, some colds are nastier than others.
That’s when desperate parents turn to home remedies and old wives tales in the hope of a cure for their child – and to make sure they don’t catch it, either.
Some might shun alternative medicine but one mum says her method really works.
Laura Kathleen has five kids under her roof and over 400,000 followers on her TikTok channel.
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The loving mum shares regular videos about parenting techniques, marriage and tackling toddler tantrums.
She boasts 1.8million likes in total, but her recent revelation has raised a few eyebrows.
Laura says that if you’re suffering from the lurgy, putting potato peel on the bottom of your feet might actually work.
She tried it on herself and her sick toddler out of curiosity, and the results were jaw-dropping.
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Laura captioned the clip: “The internet tells me that potatoes on my feet when I’m sick is a hoax, but I don’t believe you internet.”
The savvy mum explains her method as the video plays out.
She takes off her sock to reveal a slice of potato on the sole of her foot.
“So one of the things that TikTok has taught me is to put potatoes on the bottom of your feet when you’re starting to feel sick,” she tells viewers.
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Laura peels the slice from her foot and reveals she and her little girl (who is sick) wore potatoes on their feet overnight while they slept.
“This one that you’re looking at is on the bottom of my foot. I’m healthy,” she claims.
“My little daughter here is sick,” she continues, showing a clip of her little one sitting in mum’s lap.
Laura takes off her daughter’s sock to satisfy our curiosity.
“I put the same size potato peels on the bottom of her feet – thin potato slices – and after the same amount of time hers came out completely black,” she adds.
Laura holds up the potato peel for us to see, and it’s clearly shrunken and black.
“I have no idea what that black is,” she confesses. “But it is blowing my mind.
“It is drawing something out and if anyone can explain this to me, I would love to know what it is.”
Laura then puts her daughter’s potato slices next to her own (Laura was the ‘control’ as she was not sick).
Her daughter’s slices are half the size of Laura’s and completely black, while Laura’s looks almost normal.
“I have done this for the past two nights, and her cough has not gone away, but it never got worse since I started doing this. It never ramped up,” she says.
Laura isn’t the only one who believes in the potato trick.
A fellow mum wrote in the comments with her own little hack: “Been doing this since I was a kid but we rub Vicks on the potatoes before placing.”
A second user replied: “Romanian grandparents doing this since forever. Also around the neck when we had a sore throat.”
Others weren’t so convinced and made their opinions known.
“But… they still fry up fine?” joked one user.
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“Clearly you used purple potatoes in her shoes,” remarked another.
“Heat from the foot,” claimed a final viewer.
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