Hard Cough

My step daughter has a deep cough. She does not take cough syrups or medicines. I tried lemon juice with honey. It does not work. Does anyone know of natural remedies for deep coughs?

Brandy and lemon and honey! but shes probably 2 young 4 brandy so try gray tea lemon and honey! serve HOT!

I have a cough and need to get rid of it before may 18th.

You have to find out the cause first. Go to your physician and discover if its allergies, respiratory infection or environmental.

My 6 year old daughter and 2 year old niece have moderate chest congestion. The cold medicine they are being given is breaking up the mucus, but I can’t get them to spit out the phlegm they do cough up. Any suggestions on a medicine they can take, or a way to teach them how to get the stuff out of their little lungs? It’s only been a couple days, and it’s not really severe, so I don’t think they need to see a doc just yet.

A humidifier helps a lot. Just place it in the same room as they sleep in while they are sleeping.

My daughter has a bad cough. What is or was your favorite medicine for your child for a bad cough?

Be very carefull about giving a child over the counter meds for colds, coughs. The media is trying to get the news out, that some of these are dangerous for children under a certain age and have even caused deaths. When your child is coughing he needs to see a doctor, try the yellow pages for free clinics in your area.

Associated with the flu.
It is a dry cough and it is very severe.
I can’t finish one sentence without having a coughing fit.
It is also making my throat hurt REALL bad.
What can i do to get rid of it?

go get some medison or go see a doctor

Hi iv been smoking since about june last year, but recently i have developed a horrible cough which i can pin only to this. I only ever smoked because I enjoyed it and told myself I would stop at the first sign of trouble, and i guess this is it.Havn’t had one in about a week now without any withdrawl symptoms except the cough. How long can i expect this to last?

Sorry to hear that you ever started, but congratulations on knowing when to quit and following through. This is a smokers cough that will not stop until your lungs are clear from some of the damage that the smoke has caused. This really doesn’t have a set time but is up to your individual health situation. If you have any health problems other than this cough then this would effect this also. Since you did smoke for almost a year then some damage was done to your lungs and it will take some time for it to heal. Try to stay away from any second hand smoke as this will irritate your lungs too. If it doesn’t stop within the month then make an appointment with your doctor. He might want to get some xrays of your lungs to make sure all is okay and there isn’t any permanent damage. Good luck with being a non smoker and God Bless

My mom’s cough gets so worrisome at times especially after consuming feeds containing starch as she claims. Cold weather is also a contributing factor. She gets antibiotics from her doctors sometimes but improvements are hardly noticeable so we have resolved to try other means like diet restrictions. Who knows what we can do better. Really need help here! Thanks.

If foods containing starch set off her coughing, she may want to avoid them. That said, a cough is the body’s way of clearing the airway. With Bronchiectasis, there are copious amounts of phelgm produced by the lungs. She needs to clear that out. Being properly hydrated can help thin those secretions out. Thinner phelgm can be coughed out easier.

If I drink 8 ounces of cough medicine a day – with the ingredients 15mg of Dextromethorphane and 30 mg of pseudophedrine, what are the long term effects. And how long can I do it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan
http://passing.games-air.com/guaifenesin-psuedoephedrine.html

i don’t recommend that you do it at all…there are so many bad things that could happen to you…

My 12 weeks old baby has been coughing since a few weeks back. Started with one or two coughs a day. Now she coughs about about 5 to 6 coughs a day. Yeatsrday she had 3 coughs when she was sleeping. Obviously her coughs are more now. Is it possible that its whooping cough or am I just too worried?
She would also sneeze one to 3 times a day sometimes, but the sneezing had been there since a few days after birth so we thought it is quite normal.

If she had whooping cough, she would have a high fever and difficulty breathing. She would cough until she vomited. Sounds to me like the problem is that the air she is breathing in is too dry. Perhaps she has allergies to something in your house.

Take her to a doctor and find out why she is coughing

My 7 year old pug has developed a gagging cough 5 days after returning home from the kennel.The cough seems to come in waves sometimes when he is excited sometimes after eating. He slept through the night without coughing at all. He dveloped this symptom after his companion pug became sick and had to be hospitalized for HGE. Hemmorragic gastroenteritis.

Yes, the vaccine protects against only about 20% of the strains of kennel cough-there’s a much better chance of him getting it than avoiding it, even with the vaccine, if he was exposed to bordatella.