Tuesday 5 June 2012

Cough.. cough.. cough

It has been nearly a month that I've this cough..At the beginning, it was so terrible that I lost my voice for a day. Still I didn't go to hospital for no reason..heheheh actually at first I thought it would quickly recover maximum after 3 days.. Unfortunately, it didn't happen as I expected. Consequently, I lost my voice after 4th days having the cough. I went to hospital only after my sister scared me with her story that the cough might tear off my throat  and made my voice disappears forever. Immediately after listening to her scary theories (as well as stories), I went straight to hospital. My cough didn't go immediately even after I completed my medication. Dunno what's wrong with my throat. Never experience this kind of cough before. Nevertheless, the people around me have kindly provided me with many interesting (some but not all are quite effective for me) tips to get rid of the cough.. I know some of them through my late mom and grandma but there are other tips that I just knew...  Hmm, these are the tips that I've gathered from people around me..I think it is useful to put them here so that I can refer to the tips in the future. Here they are;;;
i. Drink, drink, drink, drink a lot of water of course... heheheh this was definitely the first instruction that I received,
ii. While drinking a lot of water, drink a quarter of glass of warm water with a spoon of manuka honey mixed with apple vinegar 3 times a day,
iii. Some suggested to take a lot of warm water mixed with lime juice,
iv. Some suggested to gargle the throat with water mixed with salt as frequent as possible.. errkkk I've tried but I don't like the feeling.... 
v. Then, I may wish to try to take a table spoon of soya ketchup mixed with lime juice as many times as I could (this one I have yet to try. I think it would be tooooo salty for me. Dare not try the tip yet)
vi). Take as much ice-cream as possible. The ice-cream should be the smooth one eg Haagen Das, Baskin Robin, vanilla ice cream bla, bla bla as long as it is creamy and smooth --- this is the tip that I like most and the most tasty medicine I have ever had...heheheh
vii) Put medicinal sweet eg Dequadin, Lozenges etc in my mouth before sleeping. It helps to sooth the throat before and while sleeping. Actually, I was scared to try this tip at first. I was thinking that I would swallow the sweet and get choked while sleeping. However, after having problem to sleep because of the cough, I did try this tips and it worked for me. I started with a very small size of sweet which I had already sucked for a while. After a few nights, I became more confident to try with a bit bigger size of the sweet. Additional tip is that don't try this if you are too wild while sleeping heheheheh..
viii) Finally, the most common instruction especially from a doctor is... finish your vitamin C tablets prescribed as well as the antibiotic pills.. urghhhhh that what I hate most but need to do to kill the viruses ( I supposed so). 
Whatever it is, I am fine now.. Alhamdulillah..dunno which tips or medicines work for me but feel grateful that it was not any of serious diseases eg SARS, HINI etc. Please Allah, do keep me away from such diseases.. Aaaamin..