iv read about Guaifenesin helping to thin the curvix, but does it really work and witch cough syrup would you reckon mend? please help
2006-12-15 07:35:59 · 31 answers · asked by dragontears 4 in Health ➔ Women's Health
are some of you idiots! i ment will it help Fertility.
2006-12-15 07:40:47 · update #1
Since most people are giving retarded answers I found this. Maybe it will help you.
Question: Can taking cough syrup help me conceive?
Answer: While there's not a lot of medical research to support this idea, anecdotal evidence suggests that it can help. But there are a few caveats, too. One ingredient in certain cough syrups — guaifenesin — can help you get pregnant by thinning your cervical fluid, which enables sperm to travel through your cervix and fertilize an egg. If you know from taking your temperature every morning that you're ovulating, but you don't seem to be producing much wet, slippery, cervical fluid, guaifenesin might be all the help you need to get pregnant. This is the paradox, though: You need to know when you're approaching ovulation to take advantage of this recommendation, and the only way to know that is by checking your cervical fluid. So guaifenesin works best on women who do produce at least some cervical fluid.
How does it work? Guaifenesin, a common ingredient in cough syrups, is an "expectorant." That is, it relieves congestion by helping liquefy mucus in your lungs, allowing you to cough it up. And because it works systemically on all mucous membranes in your body, it can make your cervical fluid wetter, too.
The trick is to find a cough syrup in which guaifenesin is the only active ingredient, so check labels carefully. Many cough and cold medicines contain antihistamines that also work systemically in your body but have the reverse effect: They dry up mucus and diminish wet cervical fluid. And while you're trying to get pregnant, there's no reason to expose yourself to any other drugs unnecessarily, so find a product that contains only guaifenesin and no other active ingredients, including dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant) and alcohol. Humibid LA — the pill form of guaifenesin, available by prescription — is a safe choice. Ask your healthcare provider to prescribe it for you.
If you're taking the liquid form of guaifenesin, take 2 teaspoons three times a day around the time of month you're expecting to ovulate. If you're taking the pill form (Humibid LA), take it as prescribed for a cold. Either way, I would encourage you to take it from the first day you notice any type of wetness through the day of your temperature shift. That may be about a week. (Editor's note: If you're not yet charting your basal body temperature, click here for more information on how to do it.)
Guaifenesin may even work for women who've had abnormal cervical cells frozen off or who've had a cone biopsy — the removal of a cone-shaped wedge of the cervix to treat lesions that may be precancerous. This procedure destroys some of the cervical crypts that produce fluid. If this is what's behind your low production of cervical fluid, taking guaifenesin might help you produce enough wet, slippery fluid through the remaining cervical crypts to help you get pregnant.
2006-12-15 07:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by wizsap 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard about this It thins the cervical mucus making it easier for the sperm to swim to the egg. I have always heard to buy Mucinex..which is not a syrup but actually a tablet. It had the most Guaifenesin in it. Don't buy the Mucinex DM though because the other drug in it can cause birth defects,
2006-12-15 07:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by jenny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No cough syrup will help you become pregnant.
2006-12-15 07:38:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2017-03-03 17:09:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I certainly dont think it would work.
Not to mention the risk to a foetus from the medicine if you did fall pregnant.
Guaifenisin is an expectorant, not a fertility drug.
2006-12-15 07:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who told you that?
Thinning the "curvix" or cervix would not help you get pregnant anyway. Get some books out of the library if you want to learn about conception, and wait till you're legally old enough before you do, please.
2006-12-15 07:51:55 · answer #6 · answered by internits 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard that. But if it did thin the cervix, more sperm could go through. Find out more info before you try it.
2006-12-15 07:39:34 · answer #7 · answered by Mujer Bonita 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you are using as "cough syrup"
2006-12-15 07:38:31 · answer #8 · answered by Scott M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
oh man.
If you want to get pregnant, please see a doctor and ask questions about fertility, Using medications like cough syrup could be very bad for a fetus. Please don't try this method.
2006-12-15 07:38:15 · answer #9 · answered by Elaine 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
cough medicine can stop your pill from working so hence the pregnancy thing. it does NOT aid getting pregnant
2006-12-15 07:40:23 · answer #10 · answered by big bird 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋