Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Help! Coughing Myself Silly!

Jeio:

Thank you ... and everyone else ... for your/their replies.

Actually I do have an IBS-safe anti-histamine/decongestant that I could use. I have it brought in from the U.K. because the formula was sold to a European pharmaceutical company about seven years ago and the medication is no longer available here in North America. I had used "Actifed Syrup" all my life before it was sold to Europe.

I discovered it just by accident one day in a chemist's shop in England. I had a bad cold and desperately needed a decongestant and so, for a joke, I asked the chemist for "Actifed Syrup" never dreaming he actually had it! But to my amazement he brought it out and the rest is history. I get friends to bring it back from England for me whenever they're going there. It is the only IBS-safe anti-histamine/decongestent medication I have ever found. It also tastes good kinda like maple syrup!

Interestingly one of the pharmacists here in Toronto said it's now thought that the dry tickle cough is best treated by an antihistamine/decongestent.

So I guess I should get that Actifed Syrup out and take a spoonful. Unfortunately, two weeks after starting this cold, I still have it plus I've got an infection "pink eye" in both eyes now caused by rubbing one of my eyes while I was sick.

Sigh. I am definitely ready for a vacation from winter illness! I have another batch of made-from-scratch chicken soup cooking on the stove right now so maybe it will work this time and cure me!

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