Speakeasy forum: Home remedies welcomed

It can be highly toxic, cause respiratory distress, rash, and more.

If in high humid area it makes a dilute hydrochlorous acid which is not unlike what they put in nosespray bottles, except a lot easier to breathe in and out. Humidity is definitely needed. The mucus in sinus and lungs is basic or positive pH and when the dilute acid is breathed in it helps break it apart, liquify it, and it can be expectorated or the body reabsorbs it.

The cardiology department handed out extremely hard-stuffed heart shaped pillows that you held up tightly against your chest (I had the older type of surgery that is a straight line from neckline to middle of chest cavity) so when you coughed you had a lesser chance of pushing out staples or stitches....and it really helped with the soreness, too. I've actually been using that same pillow nearly 20 years later to hold on my one side where the spasm-prone soreness is the most intense and it's really helped with that. A lot more than I thought it would.

Crossed fingers......spent most of yesterday sleeping again (felt like I made five steps backwards in my recovery), but made the decision last evening to sleep on the couch instead of my bed......and moved to the recliner about six hours later and slept another three hours more or less upright with legs and feet propped on the foot rest. Feel much better this morning and only had one small coughing fit around 1AM. Hopefully, the worst is finally over and am heading back to 'normal'. I've probably only had a half cup of coffee each morning (can't smell anything so I can't taste anything either).....but have been refilling my water bottles and keeping a stockpile in the fridge. I think I've drunk/drank (?) more water in ten days than I have in a year in order to keep my fluids up even though I haven't been eating much (forcing myself to be honest). Lost nearly ten pounds already but it isn't like I couldn't afford that......and my weight fluctuates by at least that normally anyhow. Miss my ice cream...have a passion for Moose Tracks....but it all tastes like cardboard so I refuse to waste it LOL

had bronchitis as a teenager, sometimes if caught a cold during football season (practice in all sorts of weather outside) I'd spend a couple of weeks sleeping in a recliner. Even in a recliner's back position, your torso and head is still elevated enought to reduce that sinus drip into your throat and avoid a lot of the cough.

I had forgotten as far as home remedies what I was given for my bad coughs. Back then you cooked with lard, and poured the used lard/grease/oil into an old coffee can to use again. Mother would mix that greasy oil with sugar and give me a spoon full. Sounds crazy but it would work temporarily, just not that long. With a bad cough I've gone to bed with a saucer full on a table next to bed and take a spoonful.

At least mother didn't give me hat they gave her and her siblings for cough, a spoonful of sugar with a couple of drops of kerosene added.

Hope you continue to improve quickly. Keeping your fluids up is good.

we did whatever we could to cover up coughing! We knew if we got caught, it would be a big old dip into the Vick's and put in our mouths to melt + the chest rub and up the nose! I think the reason we didn't cough after that was the fear of getting dosed again. LOL