• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.

Cough medicines

Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
DeusXM

DeusXM

Well-Known Member
Relationship to Diabetes
Type 1
Simply put, are they bullpoop?

The reason I ask is because I've a very tickly cough at the moment, but every 'tickly cough' medicine I've looked has the same active ingredients - honey, lemon and sucrose. So in other words, apparently swallowing sugar stops a cough o_O

Is there an actual tickly cough medicine out there that has a real ingredient rather than just being a tasty placebo? I know the chesty cough medicine has guaifenesin in it but that doesn't have a use for tickly coughs.
 
I have never found a cough medicine that works. I can never decide what type of cough I have.
 
My cough medicine is a glass of hot water with lemon, ginger and honey in it ( and maybe a bit of something like whisky). It soothes and stops me coughing. I can measure how much honey I put in and bolus for it as necessary.
 
Cough medicine, in general, doesn't work. The NHS choices Web page suggests that honey and lemon is just as effective as any cough medicine.

Saying that, I always find buttercup syrup to be good although I think that's due to the soothing effect
 
Yep - all placebo effect, Rosie.

This viral cough that's about at the mo usually lasts 8-9 weeks, and all you can do to help if keep calm, keep warm - and carry on! Ours started about 24th November, so we're looking forward to it easing. Mine's chesty though - or rather - simply, snotty. I don't think what I cough up is coming up from the depths, more what's sliding down the back of my nose really. TMI. Hey ho.

Yes I usually get colds - but just haven't had one that lasted this long since the mid 1980s !
 
There is a common belief that chocolate is an effective cough remedy - however, it was just that it's as effective as cough medicine - i.e. not very much at all. Best thing for sore throats is extremely hot drinks - honey and lemon tastes great, especially with a drop of whisky. Or just the drop of whisky.
 
Suck an ice cube it's cheaper and has the same effect 🙂
 
Not to be recommended but opiates are pretty good cough suppressants.
 
I would agree about the opiates. Codeine is very good, so dissolving a Solpadeine into a honey and lemon drink will work a treat.
 
Covonia do both a dry and chesty cough syrup that's sugar free, the dry cough one is very good at calming the tickle. I had to go to the bigger boots store to get it and ask because it was behind the counter. No idea why since all the others were on the shelves.

It was this one http://www.boots.com/en/Covonia-Dry-Cough-Sugar-Free-Formula-150ml_1547920/

I have also used solpadeine but only when I had a super nasty cough and tonsillitis together, it's a very good cough suppressant but I prefer to avoid the hard stuff if at all possible 😉
 
ChrisSamsDad said:
Combined with whisky even better.
Click to expand...
I'm not keen on whisky but I find a nice brandy & (slimline) Schweppes dry ginger is very soothing - it doesn't necessarily stop the cough but it's very soothing... 😉
 
Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Back
Top