Home Remedy for a bad cough?!
Question: now this is going to sound weird but if your cough is at night when you go to sleep rub vicks vaporrub or similar on your feet then put socks on and go to bed For some reason the cough stops and you get a good nights sleep. I know several people that have tried this, both for adults and children and it has worked. Of course if there are other symptoms other than just a plain cough or a cough that has been going on for more than a week I would consult a doctor.
Answers: now this is going to sound weird but if your cough is at night when you go to sleep rub vicks vaporrub or similar on your feet then put socks on and go to bed For some reason the cough stops and you get a good nights sleep. I know several people that have tried this, both for adults and children and it has worked. Of course if there are other symptoms other than just a plain cough or a cough that has been going on for more than a week I would consult a doctor.
Honey can soothe an irritated throat but which could possibly help the cough. Do you think you could have whooping cough?
From web:
Symptoms and Sounds
You are at www.whoopingcough.net
Introduction to the site from Dr Doug jenkinson
Symptoms (and sounds)
Treatment
Who catches it
How do you catch it and pass it on
Laboratory diagnosis
Complications
Who is Dr Doug Jenkinson?
Testimonials
Whooping cough in a recognizable form evolves over a period of 2 weeks. It usually starts as a sore throat with a mild feeling of tiredness and being unwell, that within 2 or 3 days turns into a (usually) dry, intermittent "ordinary" cough. This persists, but may wax and wane over the next 7 to 10 days by which time the cough may become a little productive of small amounts of sticky clear phlegm, and occasional intense bouts of choking coughing start to occur.
Fever is usually limited to the first week and is only mild. There may be a runny nose like a cold in the early stages. After the first 2 weeks, the characteristics described below are redominant.
Major Symptoms (usually from 2 weeks onwards). Attacks of a choking cough that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes, often with vomiting, severe facial congestions and a feeling or appearance of suffocation. Between these attacks of coughing the sufferer appears and usually feels perfectly well.These choking attacks of coughing happen as little as twice a day or as many as fifty. Between attacks ('paroxysms' is the technical name) the sufferer may not cough at all.'Whooping' is a noise that comes from the voice box after a paroxysm when the sufferer is suddenly able to take a breath in again.
Only about 50% of whooping cough sufferers 'whoop' but this is where the name comes from. Sometimes the patient stops breathing after a severe bout of coughing, long enough to go blue. Occasionally the patient faints as well. Recovery is usually rapid however, and back to normal within a couple of minutes
Whooping cough lasts at least 3 weeks and can frequently go on for 3 months or even longer. I am told that in China it is called the 100 day cough.
Late symptoms. Whooping cough resolves by a slow reduction in the number of choking attacks. From the time the attacks start to reduce in number, to the time they finish, it may be roughly from 2 weeks to 2 months or more. The average case of whooping cough lasts about 7 weeks. But for people with whooping cough visiting this site, it is likely to last longer, because only more severe cases are likely to get hereImportant points
The crucial point for clinical diagnosis is attacks of severe choking cough separated by long intervals of NO COUGHING AT ALL. There is immense variation in severity and duration of the illness.MOST CASES GO UNDIAGNOSED BECAUSE THE PHYSICIAN NEVER HEARS THE PATIENT COUGH AND CANNOT BELIEVE IT IS AS SEVERE AS HE/SHE IS BEING TOLD. AND LISTENING WITH A STETHOSCOPE INDICATES NORMAL LUNGS IN WHOOPING COUGH!
Quick self-diagnosis test questions
More detail on early symptoms
A graphic account of one mother's experience of trying to get it diagnosed
Details of clinical diagnosis (taken from my thesis)
Below are sound file pages
Sound of a child with whooping cough WITH whooping
Sound of a child with whooping cough WITHOUT whooping
CLASSICAL whooping cough with lots of whooping
Male with whooping cough making loud whooping sound
Perhaps, it's just a bad cough tho and not whooping cough.
honey and lemon juice in a cup of hot tea
By the time I have a really bad cough I have to go to the doctor because it's bronchitis. But it all depends on what your body's prone to and how well you know your symptoms. So please go to a doctor if you need to.
Otherwise I just try to stay warm and dry, take sudafed if I need to, consume garlic and ginger and cayenne in my foods, lay off the milk and try to eat lightly, lots of lemon and herbal tea. Oh, and zinc lozenges (e.g., ColdEze), they help.
garagle hot salt water 2 times a day
Buy a pack (.99cents) of Cinnamon sticks and a lemon, and cut up the lemon to slices and bring sticks & lemon to a boil pour into a cup and sweeten with honey, drink, sip hot, slowly.
You might try adding a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil to a basin of steaming water and inhaling the steam for 5 to 7 minutes. Eucalyptus oil is antibacterial, antiviral, as well as antispasmodic. It will help open up your bronchioles and kill any germs that have taken up residence there. You can find a blend of eucalyptus, lemon, cinnamon, clove, and rosemary that I produce on my website, www.GodsCountryBotanicals.com. Hope you feel better soon!
Here are a few simple home remedies that will help to overcome cough. Have honey in a hot drink before bed time.To relieve fits of coughing due to dryness in the throat, suck a few pepper corns. Check out http://useinfo6.blogspot.com/ for more remedies and information.