Hard Cough

I am crazy when it comes to being sick. I hate being sick. I take medicine as soon as I get ANY cold symptoms. My mom says that taking cough syrup with just minor symptoms damages my immune system. She says that my immune system depends for that medicine.

Also, last year I got sick 5 times… each a different illness. (strep, stomach flu, the regular flu, etc.)

Thanks!!!

Your Mom is right you should let your immune system fight those infectious bacterias so that you can get stronger . Otherwise your immune system will weaken over time . Good luck

my throat is very itchy and i have a bad dry cough before i go to sleep and its hurt every time i swallow my saliva.i have this for a week now and when the cold season started.

There are several types of throat and cough lozenges available as over the counter medicines. It is imperative that you, the consumer read and follow all directions and warnings that accompany the product.

My son just turned a year old a few weeks ago. He is so sick though. He has a really nasty cough. My daycare lady says she has given her own kids at her age cough medicine, but i dont know if that ok. They seem like fine kids very active and smart. What do yall think? Do i give him a very low dose to help him recover or just tylenol?

I think I’m not going to risk my son’s health by giving him medication that clearly states it’s not made for him.

It’s a cough, you’ll have to let it run its course. If you are worried then take him to his doctor and see what they say.

My 9 year old is suffering she had a cold and is coughing out of control. I’ve given her cough syrup (advised by the advice nurse) for 2 days now and its not working She has asthma but she’s not wheezing I’ve given her a treatment anyway but she is still coughing so I know its from the cold. I don’t want to give her anymore syrup I read online that honey works better has anyone used this method and did it work?

honey and lemon tea always worked for me, but maybe it was just the lemon tea that helped

My husband is 48 and has been chewing tobacco since he was 16. He has had a cough for at least the last 5 years that I know. His cough has escalated and is so loud it wakes me up in the middle of the night on the basement floor of our house and he is upstairs. I have to put on a fan to block out the cough.He refuses to go to a doctor. Is there a saliva test that can be purchased to detect cancer. That probably is my only option to wake him up.

I dont think so…please see doc

My Phlegm has always been green, sometimes it’s clear or yellowy.

I read that it’s bad to have green phlegm, but I’m 18 years old right now and it’s been this way for about 5 years.

So how can it be bad? I don’t have any problems.

maybe you get sick all the time.

Robitussin for instance, how do people get high from that? Is it just if you take enough? Do you get close to overdosing when trying to get high from Robitussin?

anyway, I guess what I am asking is …how much of a cough syrup are you supposed to take?

Can you die from it if you are also taking anti depressants or whatnot?

(no i am not planning to do it). I just hear a lot about this and got curious so don’t lecture

There’s a chemical in cough syrup called DXM and in large amounts it can make you high. How much you take is dependant on your body weight and on how high you want to get. People that enjoy getting high off of DXM say that you can’t overdose, which is untrue. A kid my boyfriend used to be friends with died of a robitussin overdose just a few months ago. And drinking large quantities of cough syrup is really, really awful for numerous organs in your body. Just because it’s technically legal doesn’t mean it’s safe, most illegal drugs are much safer than chugging robitussin. And it’s dangerous to take if you’re taking MAOI’s or SSRI’s I believe.

I tried getting high off DXM (the cough suppressant and psychedelic that’s in cough syrup), but I could only get down like 300 mg of DXM before getting extremely nauseas. I’ve been told that it takes about 800-900 mg to REALLY trip, but how would I get down this much?

stupid question!

On monday I had a sore throat.
Tuesday I had a huge headache.
Now today I have a headache AND stuffy nose.

I was just fine this morning. Just a little cough and sore throat but in the middle of school I started getting a stuffy nose. I tried blowing my nose but nothing came out. It was just running out of my nostrils.

You can try this for some relief. Boil 1 teaspoon of powdered cinnamon powder and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper powder in a glass of water add 1 teaspoon of honey to it and drink sip by sip for effective relief from sore throat ,cold and cough, repeat this every 2 hours until you feel a little better. Check out http://usefulinfo-cough.blogspot.com/ for more remedies and information.

I have been to the doctor several times and they just say my asthma in not under Control. Dahhh! I know that but what else can I do other than use my inhaler all the time.

Serious replys Only!

The dr needs to put you on a controller inhaler in order to get your asthma under control. Controller inhalers such as Symbicort or Advair usually work pretty well. They contain a long acting steroid (for the inflammation) and a long acting bronchodilator (for the bronchoconstriction). You take it twice a day… usually once in the morning and once in the evening. Your other inhalers such as Albuterol, combivent, atrovent, etc… should only be used as rescue inhalers…meaning they should only be used when you are having an asthma attack. If you start taking a controller inhaler, you will use one of the other 3 I mentioned inbetween the controller doses. You should only use your controller inhaler for controlling your asthma and never for when you are having an asthma attack.. it takes too long to work and can cause serious harm.

Hopefully this was the information that you were looking for.