Cough medicine in pregnancy

[Notthisoneagain]

Is there a safe one I could get? I've had a stinking cold which has now turned into a chesty annoying cough and making me not sleep at night.

Anyone know of anything I could get?

Simple Linctus/glycerine cough Medicine? Steam? I feel your pain. I've had a week of cold and blocked nose and sneezing. Then several days with a horrid cough. Now I've got the worst sore throat!! I'm making lots of hot orange juice drinks with honey and lemon which is soothing it....

No but cough medicine is not actually a thing. They’ve (it was some bbc TV show exposing the otc medicine industry I saw) proven that decongestant does not decongest as people are led to believe. It just coats the throat briefly calming irritation, same as honey and lemon would.

Happy to be corrected but I don't think you can have decongestants anyway in pregnancy, so yeah just something to coat your throat and soothe it a bit....I would go for steamy bathroom before bed to help

Cough medicine is just a placebo. Put a bowl of warm water on your radiator. Add a spoon of Vick or Olbas oil. Drink plenty. Paracetamol. Use an extra pillow or two.

Unless it’s cough mixture with codeine then you can have the others as they are just sugary Iquitos which soothe the throat a little. My physio did tell me about a herbal one with marshmallow (the root I assume not sugary sweets)