Contest: Allergic cough

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Hello my dear Steemians,

 

I would like to invite you to the contest that is running by @helengutier2 and if you would like to have a look, here is the link:

https://steemit.com/hive-168205/@helengutier2/la-tos-alergica-concurso

 

Have you ever had a dry cough that caused it?

 

I think everyone had at least once in their life dry cough. For me it was quite long time ago. Maybe the time when I was in University where we had many students, we also were in lecture rooms, library that is why it was easy to catch up some viral infection without temperature and being really unwell. Since my childhood I have hay fever, which is allergy to pollution, I do not know exactly to that type of but usually it starts in May and finishes sometimes end of July. Since I am grown up the episodes of such cough and allergy is getting better and bad episodes much less.

 

What home remedies have you used to calm an allergic cough?

 

My home remedies are few and they are always at home:

• honey, I use Manuka honey that is product of New Zealand. This type of honey has special biological active substances that activate our immune system. I usually put only a tea spoon of it into my tea and it is done once a day

• strepsils something I find very helpful, because after recurrent cough I have very tickly throat and strepsils calm my throat down

• often when those simple measurement do not help or I want to have a calm night sleep I use this syrup against tickly cough

• sometimes if I have lemon then lemon tea is another home remedy again such dry cough

 

 

Another remedy and that is a real win for the whole family is a portable Nebuliser “Pari boy” that is there to use normal saline that is with the help of the equipment turns into fine fog of salty water and with I can inhale it through the either mouth piece or sometimes if my nose is also blocked I use the mask so that salty water is breathed into through both nose and mouth. The equipment is a great help to get over the acute cough attack quickly and I noticed significant improvement.

 

 

 

How long has an episode of dry cough lasted and how do you handle it?

 

Usually cough lasts about 5-7 days getting day by day better, I start usually all my helpful stuff only after day 3 when I feel that cough is not going to settle. With the nebuliser I never had long lasting cough and since then I have never visited any doctor for that.

 

What are you allergic to and it causes an uncontrollable cough?

 

My allergy to some pollen, I am still not really sure what exactly and when I wanted to investigate my GP told that it does not matter and it is not too heavy, just to keep an eye and use anti-histamine during the period of time. I must say that only once I had episode of asthma when I was outside in park in summer and we were going along the river with high grasses, next moment I noticed that I started to feel difficulties to breath. Every breath was difficult and breathing out wheezy. At that moment I realised that was my allergy and rushed home, luckily I was close to my home and once I arrived I had to use nebuliser. Just couple of minutes later my breathing improved. Since then I try to avoid such places with a lot of pollen in spring the time when there are much pollen in air.

I would like to invite following users @dequeen, @memamun, @sitaraindaryas for the contest.

 

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