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?

Comments

[caesia.livejournal.com]

I will send Sai back with some of my loot from my recent bout with pneumonia... They gave me like everything ever invented for cough suppression, I swear. I have codeine syrup and Tesselon pearls and these ubermegapseudoephedrineslashexpectorant things. The codeine syrup seriously works wonders and knocks you right out : p but the tesselon is nondrowsy. *pobrecita*

A dry cough hurts like hell after a while. It's what gives you the bouts of coughing that go on and on and on and incidentally how I strained three muscles in my belly and sides. A 'wet' cough with phlegm doesn't do that nearly as much. Trust me, wet is better. And it sounds more pitiful when you're explaining to your teachers why you missed the midterm.

totally off-topic, but

[tshuma]

that is one of the cutest icons I've seen. really. =)

Re: totally off-topic, but

[caesia.livejournal.com]

hee! Ghenked the pic off ratemykitten.com 'cause it was just so... descriptive. ^^

[caesia.livejournal.com]

Er. Well. I intended to, but there he goes *watches car driving away* minus syrup. Foo.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I think I might actually have some codeine syrup lying around myself. Not much left IIRC, but possibly enough.