coughs, any miracle cures? pleeeeaaasssseeee

[hermykne]

dd has it and now ds . its awful that harsh barking drying type one. cough bottles do nothing
poor dd all last night - cough cough cough
is there any magic potion/spell out there???

wishful emoticon

[bran]

I'd be interested in this too, the whole bran household are barking like seals atm.

[Piffle]

am watching this thread... dd has come down with the same - streaming snotty nose, watering eyes, constant cough.
Am beside myself she has been ill time after time after time since xmas, its really getting me down...

[spidermama]

No miracle cures I'm afraid but I know how you feel. My ds has a terrible cough. The type where passers-by stop and comment. It'll run its course. I'll watch this thread though.

[alexsmum]

piffle are you me? Ds2 is ill AGAIN! this is the nth time since christmas.He is making himself sick coughing. have just been to the emergency docs who has given him decongestant medicine and nose drops.Will tell you how it goes.

[hermykne]

piffle i feel the exaCT SaME, a bout about EVERY TWO WEEKS and ds symtoms are the same as your dd.
bran its just like a seal bark.

woman ii butchers today said its just time of year for them and kids have them everywhere.

give me heat/warmth/no rain pleassse

[hermykne]

alexsmum = is it like a forced cough? my dd is doing that and it just sounds like its on purpose

[Jackstini]

Try 'Potters vegetable cough remover' from health stores. Tastes !@#$%^&* disgusting but it does work.

[alexsmum]

seal cough could be croup-keep an eye on that.
no it doesn't sound forced it's a horrible sound like a really phlemghy sound and then a wretch at the end.
2 weeks ago(?) he had a n ear infection, in feb he was hospitalised with gastroenteritis.In january he was coldy/coughy/ and in december he was in hospital with croup.
i've had it up to the back teeth with it all.

[Piffle]

in the morning dd vomits up mucous but her cough is dry and irritable, I think it is nasal drip, she gets so pissed off as she sucks her thumb and when her nose is blocked oooh she gets so upset.
We're going to the US - DP and me in 10 days am praying beyond words that she can string 10 well days together while we're away or I'll be beside myself the whole time....

[LIZS]

humidifier or vaporiser (or damp washing on radiators)
raise head end of bed, on books or with pillow under mattress
medised for drying up any mucous

[Piffle]

the bedhead on dd's bed has never been let down since November
Karvol seems to ease nasal congestion, steam showers can help if the cough gets really tight.
If its mucousy medised helps to dry up the stuff...
DD could own shares in Tixylix.
This tiem I'm not going to use anything unless urgently needed... dd is walking pharmacy...

[hermykne]

oh god, some of you have it terrible
i forgot about tixylix.
amd will do the damp thing too

alexsmum - the poor little guy. he must be wrecked.

[Piffle]

has been ghastly season - many sympathies amexsmum, your poor little guy :(
pnuemonia at xmas, cough never really went away, then viral joint irritation which stopped her walking for 8 days, then sever tonsilitis, vomiting blood, in and out of A+E for a week with uncontrollable temps...
Just commented at the weekend how chipper she was and how well she got over the tonsilitis.
GRrr

[Chapsmum]

santogen vitamins, is the main ingredient in tixix (glycerol) with added viamins. Spoonful of that coupled witht he other method suggested cleares the chaps coughs up every time!

[Piffle]

and today we have rocketing temps again.....
dd is wiped out...
I want a magic wand NOW!

[alexsmum]

piffle that sounds really bad.poor little thing.
we had another terrible night last night, he was constantly coughing and choking and crying.
have got such dark rings under my eyes i look like i've benn smacked.

[SaintGeorge]

Ok, this might sound disgusting in so many ways, but it is an old cure and does help.

Peel an onion and cut it in half.

Sprinkle brown sugar on a saucer and put the onion cut side down in in.

Leave until the sugar is soaked with onion juice. Put a little bit of the sugar on a teaspoon and suck, slowly.

[Piffle]

ditto alexsmum, cough, cry, more coughing more crying etc... she spent the night in my bed.
Am shattered too...

[CountessDracula]

Yes we have this too. DD is constantly coughing

What is a cough bottle?

[Turtle35]

I feel terrible for all of you but I am so glad to hear that my 18mnth DD isn't the only one, I swear she has been sick for months. It is really depressing me and I feel like she has been living on Medised/Tixylix/ for ages. I read you shouldn't give it to them for more than 3 days in a row, I think mine has had it for 3 weeks. She has a constant runny nose and awful cough.

[hermykne]

cd i think a cough bottle was something the chemist would produce himself but maybe glycerine was one of the ingredients and then some of the things in the potters bottle.
that stuff works but try getting a 3 year to take it!

[Piffle]

onin is soaking up sugar
I will try anything...

[Turtle35]

I think I will try the onion idea also. What ages are your children?

[bundle]

on the whole, cough bottles don't work, they act in a limited way, lubricating for a bit, as well as acting as a placebo. some people think that ones with the ingredient dextromethorphan do actually work, though others disagree
\link{http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/2003/ashton_nov03.htm\see here for some other tips}

[Piffle]

my dd is 3.5yrs