Vile dry cough

[vickster]

Keeping me awake at night and off the bike

Best remedies? Venos tickly cough stuff is pretty useless, just drinking water and tea seems to help short term but I can't stay up all night drinking! Any other OTC concoctions recommended?

Had for a couple of weeks, two different lurgies...crook on birthday! Fed up (especially as I've nearly puked from coughing) , don't usually get coughs Don't smoke, no asthma, no hayfever etc

Grrr

 

[User269]

Night Nurse.

 

[vickster]

Night Nurse.

I think they doa cough mixture...off now to Tesco pharmacy to stock up on drugs and chocolate!

 

[gbb]

No other symptoms ?
Lethargy, sweats, fever etc etc ?
TBH, two weeks with a cough should mean a trip to the docs is in order, honestly.

 

[Kevoffthetee]

I've been to the docs about a chest infection with a very dry non productive cough and was told nothing works for the cough except warm brandy

Out comes the Metaxa reserve

 

[Katherine]

That's long enough now, go and get checked out.

 

[vickster]

No other symptoms ?
Lethargy, sweats, fever etc etc ?
TBH, two weeks with a cough should mean a trip to the docs is in order, honestly.

It's a new bug...I lost my voice on holiday at the end of June and had a cough which eased (my throat was a little sore but not too bad)...then - fresh sore throat on Saturday (probably overdid the cycling but didn't feel especially unwell), then got all blocked up on Saturday evening and I've been coughing since
I'm sure it's a virus, nothing the doctor can do. I still don't feel especially unwell, just tired due to lack of sleep and the coughing :-/

I have Benylin and fruit and nut ;-)

 

[jefmcg]

Codeine is an excellent cough suppressant.

 

[vickster]

The co codamol didn't help on Monday night but I've just slept through like a baby so the Benylin must have helped. Birdcage breath and death rattle this morning though!

 

[summerdays]

I had a horrible cough earlier this year, and so did some of my family and work colleagues. Mine definitely was a bug but it seemed to be more of a lingering cough than normal, with everyone not just me. I'm used a combination (not at the same time), of cough medicine and hot toddy's. That's not to say you shouldn't get it checked out, just that a bug that was doing the rounds this year seemed to be mostly an annoying cough, that lingered long after the other symptoms disappeared.

 

[summerdays]

Codeine is an excellent cough suppressant.

My favourite cough medicine was called Dimotane Co? (Which must have contained Codeine as I was always given the 3rd degree before they would sell it). Which apparently wasn't meant to work so they withdrew it, but it worked for me to suppress the cough so I could sleep at night.

 

[Dayvo]

Honey in hot water and chopped ginger.

 

[Wafer]

I've ended up with an inhaler for occasional use following a cough where doc thought I'd probably scratched the lining of the lungs a bit and though it would heal in time a steroid inhaler was prescribed to help. Got to work very quickly and have needed it for one more bout of coughing since.
Otherwise I've found cough sweets have helped calm an annoying tickly cough, fishermans friends and similar seemed to work alright. Get a bit boring when you've been consuming them one after the other for a while though...

 

[slowmotion]

I'm a big fan of Benylin too. Always choose the "drowsy" version. It helps you sleep better.

 

[vickster]

Still coughing a bit, throat a bit scratchy (especially on bike when breathing through mouth), cough a little productive, still a bit snotty, but as I don't feel especially unwell not seen a quack as I'm sure it's the tail end of a virus

Meant to be giving my platelet sample tomorrow, am sure it's fine