Help to stop cough

Have you ever tried a saline sinus rinse? Hot water, salt packet, and squeeze bottle up both sides of the nose. Drain for a while. Try it twice a day. It may do the trick. For some immediate relief, there is always hot water with lemon and honey -- it kind of soothes the tickle and cuts the mucus.

I'm a dayquil/nyquil user. I don't know of anyone that has been helped with a cough using musinex. I thought it was developed more as an expectorant to get you to cough up the excess mucus. Could be wrong.

Try grapefruit juice. Discovered this last winter and really helped me. Just sip a half glass. Hope this helps or you find relief another way.

Wasn't there a post recently where many of the peas recommended a cough medicine they like? I don't recall what it was as I've never used it, but it seems to me everyone was recommending the same product.

Anyway, have you gone back for a recheck after the bronchitis to be sure it has cleared up?

Sounds like the bad cold that has been going around. Bad cold, then a cough that lasts for weeks on end.

That was the Delsym.  Never worked for me, though.  Soooooooo many people recommended it so I ponyed up for cough syrup.  Never took more than the first useless dose.

ohiodianna, I am sorry you can't find any relief.  I can't really find much of anything that helps me during the day, although I much prefer taking something like robitussin liquigels to cough syrup.  I usually find Vicks helps stop the cough long enough for me to get to sleep-- are you wearing something so that the vapors come up to your face?  I use it at bedtime because after I rub it on my chest, I tent the sheets over my nose and try for some deep breaths.  I can usually feel them working.  If I am desperate during the day, like if I have to go to work, I will rub it on, get dressed, and then wrap my winter scarf to try to pull the vapors up.

I will also drink hot caramel macchiatos from starbucks when I have the chest cold going on.  (I always drink an iced drink otherwise.)  The heat, plus the warm milk and melted caramel are really soothing to my throat and chest.

If the cough continues and wakes you up at night, I would ask for a prescription cough medicine . My mom had to use this at times.

I have bronchitis that started Dec. 2. Saw Dr. on the 5th and she wanted to "wait and see" and told me to just do OTC. So I was doing Mucinex DM. It only barely took the edge off the cough. I have gone through 2 large bags of cough drops (my teeth feel so gross!) I started using a cool mist vaporizer at night and doing like someone else said and slathering Vicks on my feet before bed. I can't believe those 2 things really calmed the cough at night!

I have also been using 2 tsp honey with a shake of cinnamon and eating it off a spoon. That soothes the cough, but only temporarily.

Dr. finally prescribed steroids for the cough. It helped the first few days, but I'm still coughing a lot.

Can't wait for this to be over.

Now DD started with the cold/cough 2 days ago and today DS has a sore throat. Ugh!


Hope you get some relief and feel better soon!!!!

I did this last week when I was trying to sleep & kept coughing.  It worked for me.  So weird.  My feet were colder than normal the following morning, but I was okay with that, the coughing stopped.  Feel better soon.  

I've been doing this for years and it really works for me!  

After years of fighting what I thought was chronic "bronchitis, "I figured out that I did not have bronchitis at all. Well, a doctor figured it out, not me. I have allergy induced asthma. My cough would get so bad, I would throw up. It was exhausting to cough all the time! He put me on an inhaler, daily Flonase, daily allergy pill, and – surprise – a proton pump inhibitor, because acid reflux can also contribute to chronic cough.

I'm sorry you have the never ending cough. It sucks. If it does not clear up In a week or two, please go back to your doctor and push until he investigate more…

Hope it clears up completely very soon!