Okay, Medical Types...

[xanthos_samurai]

I've had a horrible lingering cough for somewhere in the neighborhood of two weeks and I am REALLY sick of it.  I have no other symptoms and I'm not really coughing up anything out of the ordinary.  I thought it would go away if I waited it out but at this point I am ready to stab something every time I cough

Comments

[half_shadow]

There should be a club for people like us. *hack hack*

*passes cough drops*

[cyaneus]

It might be bronchitis. :( When I had bronchitis the doctors gave me a medicated inhaler to use for a few weeks.

[anonymous]

Something you could do is avoid eating dairy and sugar (in any form). Both dairy and sugar aggravate the gunk and make it worse, which makes you cough more!

Feel better! My Uncle is in the same unhappy boat!

Love,
LL

*ahem*

[misterbubbles87]

http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/24/suppl_6/547S

But I suppose I could be wrong. I haven't even heard about the sugar thing before. Maybe it's just this. Just saying. Romes probably knows better. But yeah, Tech should have student health centers where you can see a doctor for free, right? Listen to them. It's just a check-up. "Walking things off" and/or denial is how we get world-record-sized tumors, after all.

[anonymous]

Oh, well....sorry. The dairy and sugar thing was drilled into me at an early age by all my doctors, and it seems to be true for me and all my family. (pediatric, allergy, homeopathic, and GP). If it's not true, i certainly didn't mean to spread misinformation!

~LL~

[misterbubbles87]

:P Don't worry about it, there might be a study that comes out tomorrow refuting that as well. Oh, science and its ever-changing ways. But yeah, I'm sure you'll agree that misconceptions are everywhere. Makes ya wonder about what other things that we believe in and "knowledge" take for granted are demonstrably false. The more you know~