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My husband gets a cold every 6 months or so. He coughs so hard that he gets headaches and vomits. How can we stop his cough?


Posted by pandamarie5

back of head hurts when he coughs. he tries to put pressure on his head with his hands.

it comes on without warning. he feels no tightness in his chest before it happens.

it mostly shows up when he gets a cold, but he thinks maybe the stuffy nose is a product of the coughing, like the ody making extra mucus due to the violent spasms. 

 he has no success with cough drops, throat sprays, or cough medicines. 

blackberry brandy seems to calm it in small doses. only nyquil has any helping effect as well, but it is  minimal.

i turn on a vaporizor and that brings it down a bit as well, but it never really  

 
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Please inform, in which country you live? what is the whether condition? what is the nature of job of your husband? etc.
Rather than trying to alleviate the immediate symptom, look at the "bigger picture" of his health–his immune system. It is obviously diminished. So work on strengthening the immune system and all these accompanying symptoms will stop. Look at his stress level. Stress severly impacts immune system. Wishing you good health, the most precious posession!   

it's funny you mention his immune system, because after i published this question, i told him i was putting him on a zinc tablet to help boost his immune system up! As for the stress levels, we have had about two to five years of various stressors in the form of finances, a breaking down house, and a roommate that had to go because she was bipolar and was hanging on his every word and movement, causing touble all over the place. Now that she is gone, i am seeing an improvement in the stress levels. Do you recommend anything fancy for the immune boosting?

 

We live in the USA, we have black dirt as we are in farming country, and it can be very humid during the summer with very dry winters. He has a part t ime job at a dairy farm, and used to work on a pig farm, but had to stop working with pigs as it made him sick all the time. He said it was the mold spores in the manure tanks and the ammonia smell that caused it. Now his part time job causes some allergy stuff, but his work is not often enough to explain the coughing spellshe is experiencing. He had them before the farm work. 
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