Is Vicks Vapour Rub (or the cheapo Willis knockoff) safe to use?

[SuperManStoleMyPants]

8+3 weeks and suffering from a rotten cold. Coughing up disgusting yellow phlegm and have a hacking cough which is making me more sick than usual...

Please tell me Vicks (or the knockoff) is safe to use. I need something to relieve this cold.

[Heirhelp]

It sounds like you need antibiotics. Your immune system is suppressed in pregnancy.

[MauiChristmas]

I was told not to use that kind of product by a pharmacist. Really annoying :(

[SuperManStoleMyPants]

I don't think I'm at the antibiotics stage yet. Just feeling completely and utterly rotten. I could actually cry. I'm getting so little sleep as I'm coughing all night and I'm exhausted due to pregnancy anyway.

Do you think I could do steam breathing with it? Then it's not being absorbed into the skin?

[Nikki2ol6]

I craved the smell of that in my sons pregnancy and had no idea it was recommended not to use it. I sniffed it the whole way through like a glue addict sniffing glue and my little boy is fine

[MrsDallowaySaid]

I just googled and it says it is safe for mums-to-be... Thankfully, as I have been using it every night!

[sharon2016]

I've read that any menthol type product isn't safe to use as it restricts the blood vessels. Try stick to hot water honey and lemon if you can. Breathing a boil of steamed water should still help congestion a bit X

[Vanillaradio]

I had a bad cold during pregnancy and Vicks vapour rub was literally the only thing the pharmacist would sell me........