funnygarcia
Hyena, Dis Diva, vegan-in-training
- Joined
- Feb 24, 2002
so for the 6th night in a row I have not slept. I keep coughing all night long. I'm so sick of this. I just want to sleep all night one night.
Ugh, that's the pits.
On the advice of a much experienced (older) pediatrician, we've been using Delsym.
It's the highest amount of Dextromethorphan (cough suppressant) allowed in an over the counter med. When we first heard about it ,a few years ago, it was incredibly hard to find. The ped said to look either on the very top shelf or the very bottom shelf.
Lately they have been pushing advertising, easier to find!
The regular bottle (they have a child version now) works just fine for kidlets too, just a smaller amount per dose. We buy one bottle a year and everyone can use it. Tastes okay too, not like the Robitussin that burns on the way down. YECK! When the boys were little, they would ask to lick the dosing cup to get every bit after downing a dose.
Doesn't make you drowsy, but it does knock off the cough for 12 cough free wonderful hours.. and it is an EXACT 12 hours.
You will know when it's been 12 hours.. feeling just fine and then cough cough cough hack hack cough.. hmm what time did I take it last? wow.. 12 hours.