I have mild asthma which is normally well controlled. I take daily medication. My (medicated) peak flow is fine for my age.
When I get a cough it's an absolute nightmare. I've had some serious health problems recently but I am now well and trying to get fit. But I keep being set back by coughs and colds.
I had a month-long bad cold in October. I had a month long bad cough from mid-December. Ten days ago another cough began. This one is even worse. It's almost as if I have croup. I get shocking coughing fits. I don't have a temperature, although I did with the Christmas one which my GP thought was probably RSV.
I don't have a chest infection. I have a productive cough. I use the usual selection of mildly relaxing things for my throat. Hot honey and lemon, paracetamol, horrible old-fashioned herbal gargles, disgusting honey/lemon/glycerine cough mixture, steam, airwaves chewing gum. I have doubled my normal dose of inhaler, and am using lots of ventolin.
Is there anything anybody else has found to relieve this? This is the second year running I've been plagued by these terrible spasms and it's really getting me down. I'm exhausted both from the coughing and the disturbed sleep.
I have two young DSs (pre-school and Yr1) so I can't avoid the bloody bugs but I'd like to suffer less from them.