Home Health & Wellbeing
If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.

coughs.

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
how long is it normal to have a cough after you've been over the flu?

my housemate instructed me to go to the doctor, cause apparently i'm 'coughing like a pensioner' and i've been over the flu a couple of weeks. doesn't seem that bad to me.

anyway even if i've got a chest infection (get them all the time) he'll only give me antibiotics which i'll refuse to take, and nowt will change.

is there anything else that'll ease a chesty cough? (had cough medicine and sudafed. neither made the slightest difference).

Comments

  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: coughs.
    Originally posted by kaffrin
    is there anything else that'll ease a chesty cough? (had cough medicine and sudafed. neither made the slightest difference).

    My hubby swears by Covonia, its a bronichal cough syrup and when he has a chesty cough this is the best thing on the market, for him anyway. He has terrible chesty coughs and I got to agree its the only one that works for him.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    .
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by girl with sharp teeth
    is it hacking, or just uncomfortably tickly?

    it's kinda both.

    it's, um, productive, until i have coughed up whatever's gathered there, and then i can breathe clearly for a while and it's tickly, and then the goo re-forms, and the cycle begins again. it's annoying more than anything.

    but i will try out your suggestions, if only to keep my housemates from killing me for endlessly coughing. thank you :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by BritJames
    Also, antibiotics all the time can't be good for you - so probably best you don't take them everytime he gives them. Your body will slowly build up a wall against them and too much can effect your heart.

    i don't take them at all :)

    they make me feel sick, so i always ask if there's anything else i can do/have.

    if not i take the prescription but don't get them.
Sign In or Register to comment.