I have congestion in my throat and lungs. It feels as if my throat is closing up. How can I break it up?

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Clearing my throat doesn't help, taking Mucinex doesn't help either. The same thing happened last winter. Drinking lots of water helps to alleviate it, but not much. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on and how I can stop the discomfort this is causing? I also cannot sleep through the night because I wake up choking.

Answer 1

It sounds as though you have a lot of junk running down your throat. It can feel very thick and make your throat feel like it's closing up. That's an awful feeling. You can try a cold medicine with decongestant, like sudafed, and a expectorant and cough suppressant. Something like Robitussin PE might be best, as it contains those 3 ingredients. You're looking for a mixture of sudafed, dextromathorpan and guiafeson.

Drink some warm fluids to thin the mucous that is in the back of your throat. Sometimes drinking cold fluids will thicken up that mucous and make you feel like there's a lump in your throat. Moisturize your room by running a cool mist vaporizer, or by setting pots of water near your heat vents. That will help keep your mucous membranes healthier. You also may want to sleep with your head slightly elevated, on a couple pillows.

If you're really having trouble sleeping because of the coughing, go see the doc so he can prescribe something a bit stronger than over-the-counter meds.

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I have congestion in my throat and lungs. It feels as if my throat is closing up. How can I break it up?
Clearing my throat doesn't help, taking Mucinex doesn't help either. The same thing happened last winter. Drinking lots of water helps to alleviate it, but not much. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on and how I can stop the discomfort this is causing? I also cannot sleep...

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Not having suffered from asthma, I can't tell you all of the "whens", but I can tell you that you should do something about your asthma - it can be cured, and you have everything you need at home to do it. Let's understand what asthma really is. It isn't a disease, like so many doctors might tell you. It's a symptom of a more serious problem - chronic dehydration. You're not drinking enough water and/or you're drinking soft drinks, coffee, energy drinks or other beverages instead. Dehydration shows itself in many ways. In your case, you're predisposed to asthma. The brain, liver and kidneys require a lot of water to function properly. When you don't drink enough water, these organs get what water they can and the rest of the body must cope as best as it can. When you become dehydrated, a water management process kicks in. The first thing it does is make sure the brain, liver and kidneys are protected. Then it looks for and tries to close off anywhere it senses a leak. You lose about a quart of water per day through respiration - breathe on a mirror to see this water loss. Because the body is trying to conserve water, it sees this as a considerable leak and reduces the amount of water going to the lungs. This causes the difficulty in breathing we call "asthma". Fixing the problem is as simple as avoiding soft drinks and other beverages and increasing your water intake, instead. You also need to increase your salt intake because salt has many functions in the body, one of which is to break up mucus and congestion to help keep the airways open. I know it will be hard to give up the soft drinks and other beverages, but ask yourself a question - if you had a life-threatening allergic reaction to, say, tomatoes, would you keep eating them or would you give them up? The same question must be asked about the soft drinks, since these are the cause of your asthma attacks. The link below has a guide for using water and salt properly to correct your dehydration. It isn't just a "one-time and it's fixed" kind of thing. But it's the right way to fix your asthma. You'll need to stay with it.

Answer 5

Everybody is getting this right now. Tussin chest congestion formula. is beat for that. But your gona wind up goin to the doctor before its over Ive had it for 14 days. Just getting to the all the way well piont and still coughing up sht.

Answer 6

I have had the same problem just as severe recently... it took waking up with bad sharp pain in my lungs to go to the hospital (although you may just want to see a doctor first). As it turned out, I had pneumonia and I had been coughing so hard I had also cracked my rib in 2 places. It sounds like this may be the same case with yourself.