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Is there anything I can take for a cough? I can't seem to get rid of this cough..it's lingering on and on.
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Maybe its asthma?
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Have you tried a vaporizer?
Make sure you clean it out thougly after each use & dry it too. Also make sure to use good clean water in it.
Maybe you could ask your doc to get a sputum culture to make sure it's not an infection.
Hope you're feeling better soon Dana
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delsym, yep, that's it. i got it at walmart. not cheap but very effective
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the purple cough medicine with codine in it has always helped my bronchitis cough. best wishes; use the vaporizer too.
use VICKS good; don't worry about the smell; think this is making me BETTER so i'll feel better again!
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There is a very bad virus going around that is causing this. The cough seems to go on for WEEKS.
I know...my son and I just got over it. He coughed so hard, he was vomiting - several times.
You know how I feel about abx. - try to avoid them at all costs!!!
We had to resort to A-Zith. Normally, an abx. is NOT given for viruses, but the doctor felt if it goes on and on, a bacterial co-infection is likely and has to be eliminated and then the body can better rid the virus.
It worked.
We tried many of the above OTC remedies, vaporizers, herbs, etc.
I believe I caught the virus from a neighbor who had just gotten off a cruise ship where they had a "code red". She was at a party and said she couldn't seem to get over her cough.
I got the virus first, then my son. My husband did not...which I find very strange.
Those infected on the ships are only supposed to stay in their cabins for 2 days. Yea, right.
"Google" norovirus (and its friends) and see how long one can REALLY pass along this virus!
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My GREAT ND suggested making a diluted mixture of Everclear ( pure grain alcohol ), half and half water. Spray in back of throat, rinse, also make a gargle. I havent gotten drunk or anything as long as I am careful. She also says to rub neat on the skin for fungus, put in ears for itching. A few weeks ago my BF and I kept passing bugs back and forth. We did this and it sure knocked the bugs out for a good while. I also sprayed a very good brand of CS in between. My ND said this cough is due to a vitteria ( bacteria with viruses hijacked onto them ).
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i know herbs like mullein and marshmallow and slippery elm do help, in either tincture or tablets, like air power by enzymatic therapy or mullein complex by planetary formulas, hope you get some relief soon, and codeine helps too i can relate since i have a terrible time with think mucus in nose and throat all the time! radha
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Anyway -- you HAVE seen a doctor, right? You could have any number of things, some of them very serious, so get on it.
In the worst throes of my LD I had two problems with coughing...one was when my lungs seemed to clamp shut with every cough (dry cough) and only much later, after finally getting over it -- and it was very scary -- did I read that there is such a thing as "spasmodic bronchitis" (treated with muscle relaxers). HELLO???!!!
The other problem took longer to solve...I had to cough every damn time I took a breath. If I wasn't already exhausted, I was now. I wasn't sick, just coughing uncontrollably. No one could help me until my doctor finally wondered if the steroid asthma inhaler I was taking was irritating my windpipe. We stopped that, and the cough stopped too.
I didn't think the norovirus was an upper respiratory thing -- I thought it was stomach flu?
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If you have any oregano oil around you might want to try to do a tent
put a few drops of oregano oil into a pot of boiling water & then put a towel over it & your head and breath in the vapors . Oreganol is suppossed to be good against viral/bacterial & yeast: Please read the link below:
Mucinex loosens the mucous so it can pass . I take 2 tablets in AM and one in the late afternoon and drink lots of water . It is the BEST expectorant to loosen up the phlegm - definitely the strongest available.
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