Anyone have this??? And what do you do to help get over it. The cough is driving me nuts. Hack, hack, hack. Posted by Carol in PA (Member # 5338) on :
You have influenza?
Influenza symptoms include severe dry cough, high fever, severe headache, severe fatigue.
The cough and fatigue may continue for a couple weeks. My temperature went over 104, and I kept on taking tylenol to bring it down. I could not control the cough, and I injured my vocal cords. I took dextromathorphan at night, to try to stop the cough so I could sleep.
Later on, I found out about elderberry extract. You can find this at the grocery store or the drugstore. It is antiviral and shortens the illness.
In my case, I developed a productive cough several weeks afterwards, so I went to my family doctor. He said I was developing pneumonia and gave me antibiotics.
Get a salt pipe/inhaler to treat the cough. This is dry salt crystals in a tube, and you breathe in air that passes through the salt. This air picks up salt ions and when you breathe it deep into the lungs it reduces inflammation and kills bacteria and viruses.
Look for salt inhaler at amazon.com for vendors.
I didn't find out about salt inhalers until a couple years after I had influenza. I got one right away, as I was accustomed to getting bronchitis every winter.
Heh, funny thing, but after I got the salt inhaler and used it intermittantly, I never did get bronchitis again.
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