19 Home Remedies for Cough

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Having a cough can be uncomfortable. Hacking away is tiring, and it can keep you from working, eating, sleeping and generally leading a normal life. Coughing itself can be a voluntary or involuntary action to clear your throat and respiratory tract of foreign particles, microbes, mucus, fluids, and irritants — and it is a rapid release of air from the lungs. That signature violent sound we hear when we cough is the air from our lungs rushing out towards a closed glottis, which is a little flap on top of your breathing passages to keep liquids and foreign matter from entering your lungs. Although coughing can be a sign or symptom of a serious illness or the flu, it is far more likely for a cough to clear up on its own with a little TLC from you at home. Here are 19 home remedies for a cough that you can try out for yourself! However, if you find that you aren’t getting any better, be sure to consult a doctor.

1. Drink Lots of Water

Whenever we are sick, especially when we are coughing, people who care about us tell us to drink lots of fluids. This is because dehydration may cause our immune systems to release more histamines, which produce mucus. Too much mucus can set off a cough.

Drinking a lot of water can help to soothe your cough. When you’re ill, you can have post-nasal drip, where mucus trickles down the back of your nose into your throat. Drinking water will thin out the drip and make it less likely to irritate your throat and trigger a cough, and will also make it easier for your lungs to release any discharge.