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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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