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Faunsdale, AL | My father had the cure for congestion……if he decided one of us kids was in bad enough shape he would put a blob of Vicks in a pan of water on the stove and put a sheet or something over it and the kid to collect the vapors and steam! It was intense! More usual treatment was to grease your chest with it!
I agree with the recommendation to ask for a codine containing cough syrup. Saw a study that said it wasn’t really better than non narcotic cough syrups, but I think it is a little. What you want to do is gargle with it before you swallow the dose…….carefully! Don’t want to inhale any of that stuff!
The Mucinex brand has different ones with guafensin as an expectorant if you have chest congestion or pseudoephedrine if it’s sinus or nasal congestion.
Anymore I find I have to take the nighttime cold medicine with antihistamine to get much relief from sinus and nasal congestion. I guess the antihistamines do make you drowsy but severe congestion isn’t good for mental performance either!
I remember the first time I took an antihistamine cold medicine……think it was Contac?? that was a miracle! | |
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Industrial strength caugh remedy?
