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Expectantmum · 08/02/2005 09:37

Ladies, do you have any advice for a bad chesty cough? I've had a very chesty cough for a couple of days now and am 20 weeks, so I know I can't take any medicinal. Apart from honey and lemon (yuck!!), can you recommend anything I can drink which will health soothe it??

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beansprout · 08/02/2005 09:40

I had the same and it is ok to have linctus from the doc. If you don't want that, then honey and lemon and (steam) inhaling Olbas Oil might help?

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kid · 08/02/2005 09:42

I was recommended linctus by the pharmacist too when I was pregnant. From what I remember, it tastes disgusting!
Coughs can take ages to go, and are so annoying especially when they stop you from sleeping.

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alison222 · 08/02/2005 09:43

Try using an oiil burner with tea tre oil and eucalypyus iol in the air the smell will help ease your chest

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Newbarnsleygirl · 08/02/2005 09:48

Lot's of steam inhalation.

Bowl of boiling hot steaming water witha few drops of olbas oil and a towel. Stick your head over it and breath in deeply.

Lot's of baths as well.

Hope you feel better soon, I've got the same thing at the moment and it's pants!

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catgirl · 08/02/2005 09:51

might be worth a trip to the doctors, I had a very bad cough when I was about 24 weeks (so bad I was coughing so much that I vomited) and it was a chest infection, the doc can give you anti-biotics. But otherwise Boots sell an electric vaporiser and the pads you put in it are like olbas/eucalyptus, menthol - we use ours in ds's room now - worth the £20 or so imho.

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TracyK · 08/02/2005 09:51

I use vegetable cough remover and i think you can take it when pg. warning though it tastes absolutely disgusting - but it does work.

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Expectantmum · 08/02/2005 09:51

Yes, it seems to be fine as long as I don't breath !!!! It doesn't seem to be getting any worse. I'll try the steam tonight - will it hurt if I put a wee dram of whiskey in it??? he he he

Silly I know, but its been worrying me overnight that somehow the coughing will hurt bubby - how daft am I????

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