How do I shift this cough

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Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
The virus going round up here lasts about 10 days... I know because the person who [most likely] gave it to me is still coughing...
 

IDMark2

Dodgy Aerial
Location
On the Roof
MrsD always adds a slice of ginger root to her honey/lemon mix in a mug, makes a tea with boiled water, soothes apparently. There may be a technical reason for this or she just likes the taste better..she's not here to ask so this is a bloody useless comment really...
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Go to your local pharmacy and ask for some of the cough medicine they don't put out on the shelves for the hoi polloi that has guaifenesin in it. Robotusin is one brand.
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
Mrs A_T got me some Robotusin, or however you spell it, hasn't been any benefit as far as I can see... but then I'm sure most 'cough linctus' medicines, like Benelyn, are just cheap-to-produce syrup placebos sold for a fiver or more, which are the equivalent of the 'cure-all' remedies those con-men used to sell from wagons in the old Wild West films usually played by Jim Dale... you may sense a certain skepticism... I'd be pleased to be told they do some good!
 

Donger

Convoi Exceptionnel
Location
Quedgeley, Glos.
Ditto. 2 weeks without cycling. Eventually the cough mixture (expectorant) started to work, and I've been back out today for my usual 20 miler. Feel washed out now. Don't recommend you do too much too soon.
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
[QUOTE 3053861, member: 45"]Thanks. That's the one I just chose from the bottles the assistant - who didn't have a clue- plonked on the counter.[/QUOTE]
You should have spoken to the pharmacist....

There are several types of Robotusin mind and not all are expectorants. They do a nifty line in cough suppressant with added vivid dreams.
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Mrs A_T got me some Robotusin, or however you spell it, hasn't been any benefit as far as I can see... but then I'm sure most 'cough linctus' medicines, like Benelyn, are just cheap-to-produce syrup placebos sold for a fiver or more, which are the equivalent of the 'cure-all' remedies those con-men used to sell from wagons in the old Wild West films usually played by Jim Dale... you may sense a certain skepticism... I'd be pleased to be told they do some good!
That is precisely what I'm telling you so I hope you are pleased ;)
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
[QUOTE 3053892, member: 45"]Gross question alert...

When you cough it up do you spit or swallow?[/QUOTE]
TLH says if one is properly dragged up one must spit into a tissue. I swallow. But I come from chav stock.
 

Big Nick

Senior Member
I've got it too :0(

Had the full body sweats with even the slightest exertion, headache and now developed a tickly cough

Worse thing was missing a chance for an afternoons ride yesterday as wheezing and coughing does not a good ride make!
 
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