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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 495182" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Cough suppressants keep you from coughing. They stop the body from reacting to the mucus that it wants to cough out. </p><p></p><p>Decongestants make the snot thinner, less thick and gunky, just like adding a little more water to batter to get a thinner pancake.</p><p></p><p>Antihistamines suppress the body's reaction to allergens and they make mucus thicker.</p><p></p><p>Expectorants make the mucus less sticky. they don't make you cough more or less or keep your body from reacting to allergens. Mucinex is often used with cough suppressant because it makes you able to sleep and makes your body able to get the gunk out easier. </p><p></p><p>Cough suppressants are what the kids are using to get high "legally" now, and that is annoying because if it keeps up we will have to ask the pharmacist for them too. OK is the state that started the whole have to ask the pharmacist for the sudafed thing and while that worked and is good, it is also annoying as all heck when you are sick and the pharmacy is closed and that other stuff does NOTHING for you.</p><p></p><p>Think of the expectorant as making coughs more efficient so you don't need as much. If you have ever made roll out sugar cookies, expectorant would be the extra flour you add and cover the table with so the dough doesn't stick. </p><p></p><p>That is why they are often rx'd in combo.</p><p></p><p>I STRONGLY advocate single ingredient cold medications for this reason. husband wants nyquil or a medication that is all in one because he HATES taking medications and often will only take one or another and not the different ones based on his symptoms. The kids and I take one pill or dose for each kind we need. Given thank you's asthma, I am SOOOO glad he doesn't balk at medications because when he gets a cold he needs them all but can't handle the all in one medications because they upset his stomach.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 495182, member: 1233"] Cough suppressants keep you from coughing. They stop the body from reacting to the mucus that it wants to cough out. Decongestants make the snot thinner, less thick and gunky, just like adding a little more water to batter to get a thinner pancake. Antihistamines suppress the body's reaction to allergens and they make mucus thicker. Expectorants make the mucus less sticky. they don't make you cough more or less or keep your body from reacting to allergens. Mucinex is often used with cough suppressant because it makes you able to sleep and makes your body able to get the gunk out easier. Cough suppressants are what the kids are using to get high "legally" now, and that is annoying because if it keeps up we will have to ask the pharmacist for them too. OK is the state that started the whole have to ask the pharmacist for the sudafed thing and while that worked and is good, it is also annoying as all heck when you are sick and the pharmacy is closed and that other stuff does NOTHING for you. Think of the expectorant as making coughs more efficient so you don't need as much. If you have ever made roll out sugar cookies, expectorant would be the extra flour you add and cover the table with so the dough doesn't stick. That is why they are often rx'd in combo. I STRONGLY advocate single ingredient cold medications for this reason. husband wants nyquil or a medication that is all in one because he HATES taking medications and often will only take one or another and not the different ones based on his symptoms. The kids and I take one pill or dose for each kind we need. Given thank you's asthma, I am SOOOO glad he doesn't balk at medications because when he gets a cold he needs them all but can't handle the all in one medications because they upset his stomach. [/QUOTE]
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