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

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

If at all possible, call your GP and ask for him to prescribe something with codeine. This will at least let you sleep.

Other than that, inhaling steam sometimes helps, as does drinking hot lemonade (ideally with Scotch in).

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Worth trying as a comfort measure -- there are these things called "Shower Soothers" that are in the Vapo-Rub/ cold section. They are fizzy tablets you drop in the bottom of a hot shower; they release peppermint and eucalyptus vapors. I'm not sure they actually help, but they do make me feel better. Spendy, though, roughly $1.00 per tablet.