Medical question

[vvvexation]

How necessary are expectorants when one has a chest cough? I mean, do you get better faster if you cough up all the crud faster, or will it go away on its own even if you don't hasten the up-coughing process?

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[fyfer.livejournal.com]

(He also gave me an albuterol inhaler so I could stop the lung spasms I kept getting from coughing.)

If you are short on cash for meds, btw, I'm very unlikely to use either thing again. At least, I'm hoping a cough that bad was a once-a-decade sort of thing. I suppose I shouldn't pass on prescription meds but it's hard to feel like codeine really counts.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. *ponders dragging self to Plough*