Virol---what`s happened to it??

[keenonhist]

I remember my mother giving Virol to me and my brother,lovely stuff. This was,I think just after the war. When our daughter was born in 1970 she was given it at the baby clinic. But within about two years it was no longer about,so is it still available if so where??
keenonhist.

[scotman]

what was it for?

[mike11111]

It was similar to the cod liver oil and malt that my mother gave me. It was meant to build you up and help ward off infections at a time when protein-rich foods were still rationed.

[keenonhist]

Hi Mike11111. Virol was way better tasting than cod liver oil (yuk)
Scotman,as Mike said it was to help boost the body against ills. I think it was most used during the war and after it when things were rationed. But,as I`ve said,my daughter was given it into the 1970s when there was,I presume no malnutrition.

[mojay]

I remember Virol but there was an alternative also supplied by the health clinic. Roboleine (sp?) and we preferred this to Virol

[Mosaic]

There's a liquid multivitamin you can get that sounds similar - can't remember it's name but it smells like christmas pud and is delicious.

[mike11111]

I liked cod liver oil and malt - it had a sweet taste. Not too keen on the halibut liver oil version. I also remember the bottles of concentrated orange juice you got from the clinic. As I was a sickly child my mother dosed me with anything going. I can remember Parrishes' Liquid, which was delicious and tasted like wine. My mother had to hide the bottle. Also Nurse Dinneford's gripe water. I once managed to get my baby brother's bottle off the shelf and drank half of it. I was p!ssed as a newt as it contained alcohol and I was only four at the time.

[giveup]

How about calf's foot jelly.

[keenonhist]

Hi Mojay. Well that`s a new one. I`ve never heard of that one. My daughter said that it sounds like lino polish lol.
keenonhist

[craft1948]

We used to have stuff called Yellow Mixture.........god knows what that was.

[mojay]

ah I remember the thick orange juice - lovely stuff - and Woodward's Gripe Water - delicious

[mojay]

keenonhist - I'm probably a bit older than most folk on here - so Roboleine might well have been discontinued before Virol !

[keenonhist]

Hi Mosaic. Can you tell us more it sounds yummy.
keenonhist

[Mamyalynne]

I still use Gripe water it is very soothing for IBS.

[Mosaic]

It came in a red box with a brown bottle inside - I'm thinking multibionta but the pictures online don't resemble it. Seven seas seem to do one but I don't think it's the one I recall from a couple of years back.

[maclarencat]

I loved the orange juice. I used to get it from the clinic when my daughter was a baby but drink it myself. ha ha.

[tamborine]

ugh; reminds be of boarding school

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[mike11111]

I can also remember bile beans, they were a laxative. My great aunt once sent me to the shops to buy a tin and I came back with a tin of Heinz beans!

[wendilla]

And I can remember when I used to get a dose of caster oil.Horrible stuff but loved the virol and the thick orange juice.

[craft1948]

Is it mamya................I may try that.

[boxtops]

I loved Virol, but I had to have the cod liver oil when I was in the bath because I always tried to spit it out.