Coughing - Goodyear,AZ

Could just be post nasal drip. I used to get this all the time and it would last for a month or longer. I found that once I started taking vitamin D supplements after my doctor recommened it as my D was low I haven't had this. When I get a cold its goes away after a few days and that's it. Also, you can try rubbing kwan loong oil on your chest. My son just got over a cough and this seemed to help. Good luck!

Is the cough deep in your chest, vs. an irritated throat? That's what I had for years - bronchitis after every cold. Usually lasted 3-4 weeks, kept me up at night, etc. Miserable way to live. Lozenges and tea/honey won't touch that because it's down in your bronchial tubes and not in your throat.

You can treat the symptoms, as others have suggested, with breathing treatments - but remember that those chemicals are pretty strong and cause side effects in many people. If you are allergic to a lot of meds, you need to be very careful.

You can also treat the CAUSE, which is a compromised immune system. Most of us have that because of our depleted foods and deficient soils, plus pollutants and environmental toxins in the air, in our cleaning products, in our carpets & cushions, etc. Even if we "eat right" we don't really achieve that - the American Medical Association said 10 years ago that everyone must supplement because even fully organic diets can't meet our needs. My family has had extraordinary results with patented nutrition - no bronchitis in 4 years, no colds, no flu. We don't get flu shots anymore and we do not need any of those products you are spending a fortune on (cough meds, zinc, etc.). We aren't meant to get our nutrition in pieces - so buying a single ingredient (echinacea, zinc, vitamin C, whatever) is rarely successful. That's why those aisles and aisles of individual vitamins aren't making us healthier as a society - we are sicker than we have ever been, and so many kids are getting diseases that used to be "adults only" and why we have so many babies with reflux and food allergies. Anyway, that's what I've learned in my years as a nutritional consultant.

Have you asked your doc about it. Sounds like it could be "sickness induced asthma". It could be treated with breathing treatments and inhalers.

Breathing treatments often help open up the airways and the sterile water in the nebulizer treatments soften the goo. This allows the goo to get up from deep inside the lungs. I use sterile water sometimes without any Albuterol mixed in at all. I can feel the moisture saturating the goo and then in a few minutes I cough up a bunch.

Benadryl dries out the mucus and it does not help a cough, it is probably prolonging it due to the mucus being made more sticky and dried out, therefor called goo.

Try using only a mucus thinner like real Sudafed, it makes the sinus mucus thinner so it can be blown out, therefore it doesn't get down to the lungs and turn in to goo.

A mucus thinner for the lungs is often called Tussin by Walmart and Robotussin by another company. You don't need anything but the chest congestion formula. It will loosed the goo and then once it is coughed up the cough goes away. No goo.

But if this is a type of asthma only medication for asthma will help, calling on the doc and being examined by a lung doc has it's advantages.

Talk to your Doctor about testing you for allergies and asthma. I used to have that problem too, but now that I am on medication for those things I am usually able to get rid of a cough in 7-10 days.

sounds like asthma!!!