dry cough

[1FinickyOne]

Just doesn't seem to go away.. just started an antihistamine - - must be a nasal drip -- maybe a good thick cough medicine will help? I also have developed a low grade fever the last couple of days... 

 

my wife is going to make some chicken soup...

 

any ideas? 

[fredwiggy]

4 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Just doesn't seem to go away.. just started an antihistamine - - must be a nasal drip -- maybe a good thick cough medicine will help? I also have developed a low grade fever the last couple of days... 

 

my wife is going to make some chicken soup...

 

any ideas? 

Dry cough can come from allergies, a cold, Covid, Gerd, smoking,  and many other reasons, so it's best to check if you have anything that might have caused it before taking medications that may not help.If this has happened repeatedly it might be allergies, seasonal, that are giving you the cough. Hot tea with lemon, fluids and a humidifier or steam can help with the symptoms.

[Hummin]

Honey do have some soothing effect as well, and might help

[Will B Good]

OMG....you in Thailand?

 

Wife has had a dry cough for about four weeks now.....real hacking cough......gave it to me (the cough) Christmas Day.

 

Both up all night, everynight hacking away...driving us mad......covid???? Oh wait...that was a hoax wasn't it? All those old dears lying very still were just crisis actors?

[flyingtlger]

Probably the great air quality that's causing the dry cough if you live in BK......

[impulse]

The ignominiously named "Brown Mixture" (Leopard Brand) traditional Thai cough medicine works great for me.  I bought some on my arrival Tuesday and the cough was 90% gone within the day.  YMMV.

 

[bkk6060]

Dry cough I had it for 4 weeks trouble sleeping felt generally lousy so annoying. Soup yes.

Finally went to the Doctor 3 days ago diagnosed with a sinus infection.  He put me on antibiotics and just today I starting to feel better.  

[Neeranam]

I buy that brown liquid from 7/11

I have a cough for 1 week, getting worse, especially late at night when going to bed. 

 

Daughter went out to pharmacy and got me something today. 

One is Montelukast

[impulse]

6 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Dry cough I had it for 4 weeks trouble sleeping felt generally lousy so annoying. Soup yes.

Finally went to the Doctor 3 days ago diagnosed with a sinus infection.  He put me on antibiotics and just today I starting to feel better.  

 

Which antibiotic?  

[GammaGlobulin]

7 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Just doesn't seem to go away.. just started an antihistamine - - must be a nasal drip -- maybe a good thick cough medicine will help? I also have developed a low grade fever the last couple of days... 

 

my wife is going to make some chicken soup...

 

any ideas? 

 

I like the idea of Chicken Soup!

Also, you got your Duck Soup, a soup that the Marx Brothers made famous.

 

[Sheryl]

Cough with fever, you need to see a doctor. More than allergic post-nasal drip is involved.

 

Brown Mixture is an effective cough suppressant, but it is not always a good idea to suppress a cough, and in any case, with fever, there is likely an infection of some sort that needs to be diagnosed and treated.

[KannikaP]

7 hours ago, impulse said:

The ignominiously named "Brown Mixture" (Leopard Brand) traditional Thai cough medicine works great for me.  I bought some on my arrival Tuesday and the cough was 90% gone within the day.  YMMV.

 

Brilliant stuff. Contains opium though......only a tiny bit.

[impulse]

6 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

and in any case, with fever, there is likely an infection of some sort that needs to be diagnosed and treated.

 

I don't disagree, but what's the reality in Thailand?  I don't ever recall having anything cultured to do a sinus diagnosis.  It always seems to be an eenie-meenie-minie-moe selection of an antibiotic.  Or is there more science involved?

 

[1FinickyOne]

Thanks all - - it did turn more mucusy and seems to be on the wane... 

[Expat68]

Many people have cough at the moment 

[newbee2022]

19 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Which antibiotic?  

Prescribing Antibiotics belong to the hands of doctors after a proper diagnosis. 

[Paul52]

On 12/29/2024 at 9:33 AM, 1FinickyOne said:

Just doesn't seem to go away.. just started an antihistamine - - must be a nasal drip -- maybe a good thick cough medicine will help? I also have developed a low grade fever the last couple of days... 

 

my wife is going to make some chicken soup...

 

any ideas? 

I had that a couple of years ago.  Doctor gave me a nasal rinse bottle and the saline power that you mix with water to do the rinsing.  After a few rinses it cleared up quickly.  
 

If nasal rinsing doesn’t work, then it will be a serious sinus infection and you’ll need antibiotics for that.

[Bruce Aussie]

58 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Prescribing Antibiotics belong to the hands of doctors after a proper diagnosis. 

There are many antibiotics, specialist gave me one which you only took one tablet per day. Go to hospital you come home with a bag of  about 6 different drugs. They hope 1 will work 😄

[newbee2022]

6 minutes ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

There are many antibiotics, specialist gave me one which you only took one tablet per day. Go to hospital you come home with a bag of  about 6 different drugs. They hope 1 will work 😄

Sorry, I was not aware that you're a doctor or at least pharmacist. My apologies 

[spidermike007]

I've had this issue many times in the past, the last time it was diagnosed by an ENT as allergic bronchitis which was totally out of left field, but she treated it and it went away.

 

These days I use a variety of throat sprays, I find the chamomile spray widely available at the pharmacy here to be very good, and then I also use these Chinese tablets that you find in the pharmacy in the yellow package that seem to work very well. I think they're called Gumgig Pean. Other than that nasal rinses can be quite effective. It's just a matter of getting rid of the tickle that causes the dry cough. 

[arick]

Can be many things. HIV test

[arick]

I green pill from the chemist a pack of 10 50 babt

[impulse]

3 hours ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

There are many antibiotics, specialist gave me one which you only took one tablet per day. Go to hospital you come home with a bag of  about 6 different drugs. They hope 1 will work

 

That's been my experience in the real world.  Even back in the nanny state where antibiotics are by prescription only, I've never been swabbed and cultured for a proper diagnosis.  Not in 67 years of walking the planet, most of those years with a deviated septum that made me susceptible to sinus problems. 

 

In fact, I don't recall the last time I even saw a doctor for a sinus problem.  They do that "diagnosis" over the phone now, and call in the antibiotic de jour, suggesting I call them back for another if that one doesn't solve the problem.  Leading me to characterize it as a guess...  An expensive guess.

 

[EvetsKram]

On 12/29/2024 at 12:55 PM, Will B Good said:

OMG....you in Thailand?

 

Wife has had a dry cough for about four weeks now.....real hacking cough......gave it to me (the cough) Christmas Day.

 

Both up all night, everynight hacking away...driving us mad......covid???? Oh wait...that was a hoax wasn't it? All those old dears lying very still were just crisis actors?

Many people get relief drinking pure pineapple juice. I have a rare lung disease, dry cough is my main symptom and pineapple juice works for me

[impulse]

2 hours ago, EvetsKram said:

Many people get relief drinking pure pineapple juice. I have a rare lung disease, dry cough is my main symptom and pineapple juice works for me

 

Do you drink processed pineapple juice, or do you juice fresh pineapples?  Or does it make a difference to its effectiveness?

 

[Antiparovian]

See Doctor?

[Paradise Pete]

 

Surprisingly, marshmallows will ease the symptoms. It won't do anything about the underlying problem, but it might help you sleep.

[Tropicalevo]

On 12/29/2024 at 10:04 AM, flyingtlger said:

Probably the great air quality that's causing the dry cough if you live in BK......

 

Sometimes, it depends on where you live.

Lots of pollution coming with the north winds.

I live on the coast and I get a dry cough when there is high humidity.

98% in the bedroom a few days ago and the dry cough is back.

[Sheryl]

A post containing only response from Chat GPT has been removed.

 

It is a good bet that anyone able to use this forum is able to use Google and Chat GPT so there is no value added.

 

In addition, AI (and for that matter, Google) is far from accurate when used for this type of thing.

 

There are AI applications specifically developed or in development for use in aiding medical diagnosis but those are far different from chatGPT and not designed for use by lay people.  Google is useful only if you know what sort of medical search terms to enter and which links are reliable. 

[kimothai]

I found ginger tea with a bit of lemon & honey (a couple of times a day) eased the symptoms of the cough.  It's not a cure but it diminished the cough to the point that my immune system finally killed it.