Remedies for cough

[accomp]

I have a lingering cough from a cold that I had last week. Nothing unusual about that. The thing is, I'm supposed to sing a solo at Christmas Eve services Tuesday night and singing really seems to bring out the cough even more. What remedies do you use to try to alleviate coughing spells such as these? Thanks!

 

[JohnTBap]

 

[Snow White]

When I was little my mom would cut a lemon in half, put a little salt on it and I would suck on that to make me quit coughing, it really seemed to work!!

 

[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

A prescription cough syrup from the Dr. that has codeine in it!
Use it the night before(it will knock you out too, and does something to the cough center in the brain??). Anyway, once you can stop that cough and reflex for a night, it seems to get better!Cough drops are a second option. Good luck!

 

[accomp]

These are great suggestions! Anyone else have ideas?

 

[figmentvi]

I sing quite a bit with our community theater and here are a couple of tricks we use:

Don't eat any milk products today or tomorrow (dairy products create mucus and will coat your throat). Hot tea with honey and lemon always helped me. Also just plain honey & lemon.

 

[adamak]

Half a lemon with hot water, no sugar no honey. Drink a bunch of these and it helped me stop my flu earlier this year.
THis is a recently found remedy that actually works for me. For the longest time I put honey in it, and people told me the sugar actually makes things worse.

 

[cinmell]

Try some hot tea and honey.

 

[d.kurz]

Originally posted by Snow White
When I was little my mom would cut a lemon in half, put a little salt on it and I would suck on that to make me quit coughing, it really seemed to work!!

Did she serve a shot of tequila with this???

 

[Snow White]

hmmmm...maybe thats why I slept a lot when I was sick??