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

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes. There is a brand of tea called Yogi Team, and they make a formulation called 'Throat comfort'. It has willow bark and something that tastes licoricey. It doesn't need sugar or honey, although you could add some. It is wonderfully soothing. I know you can get it at whole foods and probably in many other grocery's organic sections.

If you make it, let it steep for 10 minutes. It only gets more potent.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

er, Yogi TEA. Yogi TEA.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am so disappointed. I really, really liked the idea of going to the store and buying a Yogi Team.

[cyprinella]

I'll second the Yogi teas. Over the winter, I'm constantly sucking down their Cold Season/Upper Respiratory Health mix. I've even found it at Safeway.

Last time I had a cough that lingered (that wasn't pneumonia) I used the otc stuff and it just didn't put a dent in it. Then, I decided to hell with it all and shared a bottle of wine with a girlfriend of mine and that seemed to do the trick. My face hurt like *hell* from the muscles finally getting to relax, but it seemed to be the turning point.