February 26th, 2010 | 
Author: My mother is coughing for a month and a half. She already visited a doctor and he injected a medicine but it doesn’t cure her cough. She has a lot of very sticky flem that is very hard to release by only coughing. It makes her throat hurt a lot by doing that.. I think the flem must be soften to release it easily. What cough home remedies should i recommend for my mother or do you have any suggestions for this problem?
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Here are a few simple home remedies that will help to overcome cough. Use a infusion of ginger thrice a day. Suck a whole clove without chewing it to soothe a cough. Apples bring a great relief to a person with dry cough. To relieve fits of coughing due to dryness in the throat, suck a few pepper corns. Check out http://useinfo6.blogspot.com/ for more remedies and information.
Hot tea and honey, even a spoonful of honey swallowed slowly will calm the cough some.
Vaporizer also.
She may have a sinus infection, she should go back to the doctor.
Untreated , a sinus infection can last along , long time.
steam inhalation
warm saline gargles
honey to soothe the thraot
avoid cold/oily foodstuff
Your mom might need a nebulizer saline treatment. She should be seeing a pulmonologist for a cough. She should give specimens of the cough if productive and be treated appropriately. Is she short of breath? She might need another medication nebulizer also. She can irrigate her sinuses with warm saline. Also, depends on reason for cough, ie, post nasal drip, allergies, sinus infection, smoking/environmental causes and stomach reflux. She can try tums also. Bronchitis can last as long as six months. Viral symptoms can cause a cough. Most definitive is sputum culture, pulmo doc, cxr or CT scan and lastly, get tested for cystic fibrosis, DNA most exact, but if sputum shows pseudomonas, she needs treatment asap either way. She can try Mucinex 12hr or Sudafed (behind the counter purchase) not Sudafed PE, that’s not true sudafed. Some people have habitual coughs. try cough drops or cepacol throat spray , Good luck.