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[Tabris]

I was sick with a cold about a week ago and I have this lingering cough. This always happens whenever I get the cold - I have a cough that remains close to a month.

It's just a minor annoyance. Never really hurts, just this feeling of a bit of an itch sometimes and I have to cough to get rid of it.

I think it has to do with irritated airways in my lungs, as I've tried cough medicine to loosen everything up in the throat area.

 

[darkhunger]

Had this problem back in Nov to Dec and my doctor prescribed me some orally ingestible lidocaine (an anesthesia) which helped calm my throat. The cough was gone almost instantaneously.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

i do the most caveman thing: boil a large cup of water and drink it straight down without pause.

 

[Warm Machine]

My doctor prescribed a steroid ventilator like asthmatics use.

 

[Sushi Nao]

Do you smoke?

 

[zsynqx]

okay nm then.

Other than that I think you just have to wait it out.

 

[Tabris]

Do you smoke?

Nope.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I've had a cough that has lasted me like for months. It's due to allergies or some other crap.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I've had a mild cough for years - thanks, GERD.

Oddly enough a cough is the one cold symptom I almost never get.

 

[Slayven]

Might have fluid on your chest

 

[Glass Shark]

I had this problem for years, and I thought it was due to my asthma. But I recently saw a doctor who said it might actually be allergies, and she recommended I try an OTC nasal spray. It worked wonders. My cough went away within days of starting the treatment, instead of the weeks it normally takes.

 

[Septimus Prime]

I usually have this when I get sick. It just goes away on its own, but my doctor usually prescribes me a cough suppressant, which helps.

A lot of OTC medications also contain cough suppressant like dextromethorphan. Don't mix this with codeine.

 

[Already Torn]

I took some nasal steroids, but the cough lasted for basically the entire summer and got really bad during daily runs. Just went away once all the plants started dying.