I've had this cough since I came back from Mexico (2 mos. ago). I got over the flu/cold symptoms, but the cough just won't go away. Aside from going to get antibiotics, which don't really work, what do you recommend? Please, no mumbo jumbo answers...
2006-07-31 19:02:19 · 12 answers · asked by Ezekiel 29 bumfuzzle~ 3 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
Do you live in a big hot and humid and smoggy city? This might be your problem. When I lived in the tropics I seemed to have a chronic cough, but when I moved to a dryer climate, in the mountains, my cough went away.
After conclusively ruling out (via a trip to the doctor) bird flu, bronchitis, sars, dengue fever, hauntavirus, walking pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, and tooth abscess (I'm serious), and after nauseating yourself with vinegar, peroxide, honey, slippery elm, lemon lozenges, Vicks, green tea, dark chocolate, and steam, it might be time for a break to dryer, cleaner climes.
Sorry. I tried to not answer...
2006-08-02 16:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by Heidiva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dark chocolate.
Seriously it contains an amino acid, theobromine that works better than codeine at cough suppression.
Here's a news brief below and the link to a page with it. Enjoy :-)
Chocolate for coughs
In a small, new study, the chemical that makes chocolate a mild stimulant outperformed codeine in suppressing coughs.
Treating anything with chocolate always has its fans, but what is of greatest interest to the researchers is the way the chemical, theobromine, appears to work.
Codeine and other opiates fight coughs by acting in the brain, reducing activity in its so-called "cough center," said the paper's senior author, Dr. Peter J. Barnes of Britain's National Heart and Lung Institute. But they also slow down other brain activity, inducing sleepiness.
Theobromine, he said, seems to work in the lungs, suppressing the firing of the nerve fibers there that send signals to the cough center.
In the study, published in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 10 healthy volunteers were given theobromine, codeine or a placebo during a series of tests.
2006-08-01 16:36:48 · answer #2 · answered by Solunas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me just provide you with a small reality check here.
If you've been hacking up lung for two months since a trip to Mexico, you should see a doctor.
A regular medical doctor.
You may have a serious infection in there, or some nasty tropical virus.
Unless you want to play craps with your health, see a doctor.
2006-07-31 19:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by kx_wx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your bronchials are sensitive, still enflamed most likely, and so is your throat. Try green tea, slippery elm, rasberry tea. Grapeseed oil in small teaspoon shots, but dont do WITH tea. Drink tea seperate of slippery elm and oil. For any lesions, aloe vera gel. These will soothe inflammation and kill what harmful bacteria there is left.
You can get slippery elm lozinges from a health food store.
Good luck!!
2006-07-31 19:12:23 · answer #4 · answered by Chauncy Gardener 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A teaspoonful of malt vinegar (best biological) sent down slowly 2/3 times a day. If you're a smoker it's time to give up for good.
2006-07-31 21:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by mister Q 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bacterial Pneumonia has cold/flu-like symptoms. The only part of the symptoms that actually subside are the stuffy nose, aches, etc. The chronic cough remains. Unfortuneately the only way to get rid of it is a course of antibiotics. Each flare-up will be sucessively worse as the bacterium become more purvasive in your body. Please go to the doctor.
2006-07-31 19:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by Ricky J. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen your doctor? A cough that lasts more than a week or two and has a lot of mucus could indicate pneumonia or another lung infection. See your doctor.
2016-03-14 05:38:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would get checked for TB.. I know that my daughter got it from Mexico.. and had to be on medicine for over a year...but now she is fine.. there is a lot of diseases from other Countries that are easy to get and bring back to the States.. I urge you to go and tell your doctor to check you for TB and other Common diseases from the Country and area where you visited.. Good Luck :)
2006-07-31 19:10:14 · answer #8 · answered by ghill4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sit in a steam room for at least 20 minutes
2006-07-31 19:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
try warming up natural honey, and then you put some natural lemon drops, it will relief your cough, just try to don't drink nothing real cold after that or it will worsen!
2006-07-31 19:07:47 · answer #10 · answered by me at yahoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋