Help!

[pegkerr]

Your remedies, please, for a persistent, non-productive, agonizing, hacking cough, caused by spring pollen allergies. I have taken Claritin, and Ibuprofin for the fever, and I'm eating cough drops and sucking down tea, but this cough is killing me, and it's tearing me apart. Suggestions?

I'm desperate here.

Comments

[aome.livejournal.com]

Can you get your doctor to prescribe cough syrup with codeine? Also, I know you said you're sucking down tea, but I find sometimes plain hot water works better or, at most plain hot water with a little bit of lemon and possibly a bit of honey. When I've had a spate of 'coughing so hard I'm almost sick to my stomach', that usually helps calm me temporarily, at least.

Conversely, you might try cold; I know winter is over, but sometimes going out into cold weather sometimes soothes distressed air passages better than warm/steam. In lieu of frigid temps outside, might REALLY cold liquids help at all?

Frankly, I find that cough drops are really not much help against bad coughs, just minor ones. Cough syrup sometimes works better, but YMMV. (And I can't take a full dose of cough syrup at night - it keeps me awake.)