Hard Cough

What makes a person force his own coughing when interacts with another person, may be provocation?
How can we see if it is?

some people are just horrible. If that happens I cover my mouth with my hands and look around disgustingly. that would do that game

I’ve tried 2 different kinds so far for my sore throat and cough. Right now I’m using cepacol sore throat + cough. It numbs my cheeks and tounge but doesn’t do anything for my sore throat or cough.

I put it on the back of my tongue where it presses against the soft palate when my mouth is closed, then try to keep my mouth closed. It takes a long time to dissolve but seems to deliver more stuff to my throat.

I am a female teenager, and i constantly have phlegm. No coughing or throat aches so far, but i sneeze about 3-4 times on a daily basis. Please help!
I do not have any allergies either.

try using Olbas oil from the chemist, put a few drops in a jug of steaming hot water and inhale. do this every day for at least a week. I loosens the phlegm and it should clear it away.

I’m young (21), I don’t smoke, eat a fairly normal diet, yet I’ve found in the last couple of years I’ve found myself coughing up small quantities of phlegm usually at least once a day. It’s usually of a pale colour, with no greenness or blood to it.

I’m aware that some people will naturally have more phlegm than others, so my question is, is this just the way my body works or is it symptomatic of some kind of problem?

Thank you.

That is just the way your body works.

I woke up with a chest infection and have started to cough the phlegm up. If I don’t spit it up I feel sick to my stomach, but this stuff is so gross.

You probably feel sick because you think it is so gross. And an infection of any kind can make you feel sick.

Hi. Once a month,i meet up with the girls over a meal out. One friend has asthama problems,and coughs alot. Not a problem. But she never covers her mouth. And no one has the nerve to say anything. We’ve hinted at it. But she carries on. I feel i should mention it. But how? Thanks. X Sarah

Wait until you are alone with her to bring it up, but be direct when you do. "That’s terrible you’re stuck with asthma, but would you please try to remember to cover your mouth when you cough?"

If she continues, call her out in front of others, or cover your face when she coughs and say, "Sorry, I don’t like inhaling other people’s coughs."

Also…I’ve met people who use a cough a little too liberally. It’s like a social crutch, or a means of getting attention or sympathy. Or to just be nasty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IExzp-MmYE

Hi,

I have got chronic cough since last couple of weeks now. I tried all syrups and anti biotics but no help. Just wondering if anyone has some good remedies to fix my cough.

Thanks.

I’m rather wondering how you got the antibiotics if you didn’t get them from a doctor.

Try using steam and tea with honey in it to sooth your throat, and see a doctor: A couple of weeks is a long time to have a cough, unless it’s an allergic reaction.

Good luck.

I’ve had a sinus infection and all the mucus is draining into my lungs and I’m starting to cough up the green phlegm. It is quite painful and annoying, is there any ways to help get rid of the phlegm?

You pretty much just have to cough it out…
-Drink plenty of fluids (It helps to thin out the mucus)
-Sitting in the bathroom with the shower on hot water and breathing in the steam really helps
-Having hot tea and breathing the hot steam helps too
-Mucinex really helps me clear that stuff out of my lungs if it gets bad

I hope you feel better!!

I recently got a really bad cold from my son, which when we took him to the doctors they told us it was his allergies and sinuses, well the next day me and his dad both got it. anyways, i was wondering if it was okay to take my prescription cough syrup that expired on 6/2010? its only 2 months ago. but it still looks the same as when i first got it not even a year ago.

How it looks means nothing. Drugs have an expiration date for a reason. They may have changed chemically and no longer be effective or they could even do harm or have the opposite effect that they were originally intended for.
There are plenty of very good cough syrups available over the counter at any local drugstore.

It is the new thing called the yo-yo. You get drunk by drinking cough syrup.

38% increase of teens do this drug. It needs to stop.

to get high. Teens want to get high because being a teen sucks donkey balls. Especially if you live in a shoddy, run down country like the US of A where kids are treated like cow turds.