Looking for cough remedies
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Stand in a brutally hot shower for 30+ minutes coughing up everything. Follow-up with 12 hours in bed... alone. No drugs needed. ;)
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Yup, does the trick for me too. Also try to eat more fruit than you normally do, vitamins are essential :)
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Do the grapes in a couple of bottles of wine count?:-D
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Back in october i spent almost two weeks in bed with bronchitis. Well, my sinus infection never really went away and now my cough has returned. I plan on seeing the doctor later today. But I'm hesitent since last time it dragged on so much. do any of you have recommendations for sinus infections/cough? is there a certain antibiotic i haven't tried that seems to work?
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I had a sinus infection for months that was pretty resistant to everything. Finally found a doc that gave me an antibiotic called "Ketek" or some similar spelling...Take 2 pills at a time once a day for 5 days. It killed the infection (or symptoms) in about a day and a half. Don't know about the cough. John
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Do the grapes in a couple of bottles of wine count?:-D
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Back in october i spent almost two weeks in bed with bronchitis. Well, my sinus infection never really went away and now my cough has returned. I plan on seeing the doctor later today. But I'm hesitent since last time it dragged on so much. do any of you have recommendations for sinus infections/cough? is there a certain antibiotic i haven't tried that seems to work?
____________________________________________________ If at first you don't succeed, skydiving might not be for you.
For bronchitis an antibiotic is never enough - you need to be taking an expectorant to help clear the bronchii and lungs. When I was a kid I had chronic bronchitis and, nasty as it tastes, I found nothing more effective than RobitussinDM. Fortunately, now that I'm an adult I can overcome the terrible flavor by chasing it with copious amounts of scotch. BTW - There's now a pill form of expectorant containing the same effective ingredient that makes Robitussin work great and taste awful. I don't recall the name, but it's something like Mycinex.
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I had a sinus infection for months that was pretty resistant to everything. Finally found a doc that gave me an antibiotic called "Ketek" or some similar spelling...Take 2 pills at a time once a day for 5 days. It killed the infection (or symptoms) in about a day and a half. Don't know about the cough. John
It is Ketek, or generic Telithromycin. I am alergic to the entire mycin family, severely so, it would most probably kill me before the infection. :) But for everyone else, mycins are great because they lodge in the musculature and release slowly through the system for continuous erradication of bacteria for about a full week following termination of medication.
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Stand in a brutally hot shower for 30+ minutes coughing up everything. Follow-up with 12 hours in bed... alone. No drugs needed. ;)
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
She might prefer the hot bath version of it. :cool: Also 1 gram of C vitamin per day might help.
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For bronchitis an antibiotic is never enough - you need to be taking an expectorant to help clear the bronchii and lungs. When I was a kid I had chronic bronchitis and, nasty as it tastes, I found nothing more effective than RobitussinDM. Fortunately, now that I'm an adult I can overcome the terrible flavor by chasing it with copious amounts of scotch. BTW - There's now a pill form of expectorant containing the same effective ingredient that makes Robitussin work great and taste awful. I don't recall the name, but it's something like Mycinex.
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
Roger Wright wrote:
overcome the terrible flavor by chasing it with copious amounts of scotch.
I will remember this for the next time I have to take RobitussinDM.
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She might prefer the hot bath version of it. :cool: Also 1 gram of C vitamin per day might help.
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Back in october i spent almost two weeks in bed with bronchitis. Well, my sinus infection never really went away and now my cough has returned. I plan on seeing the doctor later today. But I'm hesitent since last time it dragged on so much. do any of you have recommendations for sinus infections/cough? is there a certain antibiotic i haven't tried that seems to work?
____________________________________________________ If at first you don't succeed, skydiving might not be for you.
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Back in october i spent almost two weeks in bed with bronchitis. Well, my sinus infection never really went away and now my cough has returned. I plan on seeing the doctor later today. But I'm hesitent since last time it dragged on so much. do any of you have recommendations for sinus infections/cough? is there a certain antibiotic i haven't tried that seems to work?
____________________________________________________ If at first you don't succeed, skydiving might not be for you.
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Pierre Leclercq wrote:
She might prefer the hot bath version of it.
It makes the "coughing up" part a bit messy but it's doable.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
Oops! So maybe start by the shower and finish with the bath? :)
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Back in october i spent almost two weeks in bed with bronchitis. Well, my sinus infection never really went away and now my cough has returned. I plan on seeing the doctor later today. But I'm hesitent since last time it dragged on so much. do any of you have recommendations for sinus infections/cough? is there a certain antibiotic i haven't tried that seems to work?
____________________________________________________ If at first you don't succeed, skydiving might not be for you.
I had repeated bronchial problems and it turned out to be quite simple to stop them recurring - I wasn't breathing properly so the lungs weren't clearing out the mucus properly. Antibiotics to get the infection, long hot showers so you can clear your lungs and some exercise (particularly breathing exercises) to keep them clear. Good luck :rose: Elaine.