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What can I take for a cough? Think I might cough baby out! :-)

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bessie84 · 25/04/2016 08:02

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Arrgghh, COUGH COUGH COUGH.

Starting to hurt my already poor stomach muscles. Worse on a night.

What the blooming heck can I take / do? Tips / Help

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skankingpiglet · 25/04/2016 10:17

Not a lot unfortunately. I'm susceptible to coughs at the best of times and have had a couple in both pregnancies. You can take 'simple syrup' which helps if you've coughed yourself hoarse, and steam with menthol helps clear the airways if it's chesty/mucousy. You can have paracetamol to ease any related aches and pains. When you say it's worse at night, do you mean when you lie down? In which case can you sleep propped up?

I got a cough last time so bad it felt like I'd popped a rib. This time I discovered my pelvic floor clearly isn't what it once was... Each cough brought with it a wee roulette

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bessie84 · 25/04/2016 10:55

hahaha shaking that made me giggle about the pelvic floor. :-)

will try the steam with menthol, its one of them tickly annoying coughs (bit chesty) that you have to cough right from the bottom of your feet right to the top, just to get some relief, yes, worse when i lay down.

Thank you for replying, will try :-)

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malvinandhobbes · 25/04/2016 11:17

I had bronchitis in one of my pregnancies and was prescribed salbulterol. It worked great. Your GP may be able to help.

(this was around 39 weeks and there was some anxiety about me going into labour with bronchitis, so it is possible that the inhaler was an exceptional measure)