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cough and cold

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it's been 3 days now and i still have cold and cough.. doctor said i can take cough drops and robitussin DM but Im scared that it may affect the baby.. what should i do?
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  • angielayne926angielayne926 member
    Your Dr is not going to tell you to take anything unsafe for the baby.

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    I have also been sick and those were the same things my doctor recommended. Your doctor won't recommend harmful drugs, just follow the dossage carefully and take care of yourself. Lots of fluids, chicken noodle soup, take your vitamins, rest, etc.

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    You should follow your doctor's orders. They are trained for this, we are not.
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  • jwiem15jwiem15 member
    Hope you feel better. My doc said Tylenol flu and sinus Is ok to. I was just exposed to the flu and praying I don't get it. Does anyone know what protocol is when getting a fever pregnant, just in case? I'm out of town and don't want to rely on Google. My pregnancy book is at home.
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  • Ravenclaw314Ravenclaw314 member
    My Dr recommended Children's Robitussin, but it didn't work. Now I have bronchitis and am taking an antibiotic. :(
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  • ciennah99ciennah99 member
    @Ravenclaw314‌ I've got bronchitis too. Just started antibiotic today. It's miserable! Almost two weeks of cold symptoms & now this. Hope everyone gets better soon!!
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  • cnoelle92cnoelle92 member
    Take the medicine? That may be a good idea.

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    ciennah99 said:

    @Ravenclaw314‌ I've got bronchitis too. Just started antibiotic today. It's miserable! Almost two weeks of cold symptoms & now this. Hope everyone gets better soon!!

    Exactly! It started as a bad cold that lasted a week and just kept getting worse. The Robitussin actually gave me low-grade fevers, so no bueno. I took the last antibiotic today, but still have a bad cough. We'll see how it goes, I guess. I hope you get well soon, too!
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  • EmilywooddesignEmilywooddesign member
    I had a bad cold as well as my doctor recommended the same thing! Feel better, it's hard to sleep with a cold and no NyQuil :(
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  • crikit83crikit83 member
    So I have the flu :/ I've tried all the meds that were on my OB's safe meds list for cough, and gargling salt water as the doctor at MedExpress who ran the flu test suggested, and cough drops. Nothing's slowing it down, and it's such a violent cough (like I feel like I'm gonna pop a blood vessel in my eye or something, and I've pulled several muscles).

    Calling the OB in the morning to see if there's anything at all I can do, but I'm so desperate to just stop coughing and get some sleep. Anyone have home remedies that might help, other than tea with honey or salt water? The only time I've ever had this bad of a cough was when I had pneumonia, and they gave me those rad tessalon pearls, which I probably also can't have while pregnant. DH asked if this was more or less miserable than my first trimester pukefest, and it's way more miserable.
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  • ciennah99ciennah99 member
    @crikit83‌ I asked my ob about the Tessalon pearls bc they have helped me in the past. They are a category C but he said I could take them. If things hadn't started getting better with the antibiotic I may have had to resort to that. So maybe ask your doctor.
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  • eshap90eshap90 member
    Same boat as you all. My cough isn't getting any better or worse. I have been doing robitussin for 3 days pretty much every 4 hours.

    Today I saw on Pinterest haha that pineapple juice is better than cold medicine. So of course I went and bought pineapple juice and a pineapple.

    Hopefully I'm magically 100% in the am but I'm also sucking on cough drops almost all day, tea with honey and lemon, soup, lots of water, etc.
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    ciennah99 said:

    @crikit83‌ I asked my ob about the Tessalon pearls bc they have helped me in the past. They are a category C but he said I could take them. If things hadn't started getting better with the antibiotic I may have had to resort to that. So maybe ask your doctor.

    Thanks, I'll mention to them that they've been helpful in the past. If they have me come in, I still have an hour to kill before the office opens.

    It's getting worse instead of better, so I'm hopeful they can do SOMETHING.
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  • BabyFerry01BabyFerry01 member
    I'm going through a cold right now and was told I could take plain Sudafed from behind the counter at your Local pharmacy, mucinex dm, to use a saline nasal spray and to keep my temperature below 101.
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  • alcrimminsalcrimmins member
    I take one packet of emergence-e every morning to act as a booster for my immune system. It seems to help me, especially when I have 22 walking germs around me all day...aka kindergarteners. Otherwise, take zinc or Tylenol. My Dr. said both were fine to take!
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  • nf0kssnf0kss member
    Just left doctor....cold progressed to
    Bronchitis. On to antibiotics now....this sucks.
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  • ciennah99ciennah99 member
    @nf0kss‌ you should feel better in a couple days. I started the antibiotic Friday for bronchitis as we'll & every day I'm noticing lots of improvement. It's such a relief!
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  • nf0kssnf0kss member
    @ciennah99‌ ...day 4 of zpak and I feel like a new woman!! Even went to work today.
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