Can't cough if you're not breathing
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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This is wild; I’ve used Luden’s my whole life, not for coughs but sore throats. The active ingredient nowadays is fruit pectin; basically it’s a cherry candy but sucking on the candy helps temporarily relieve the sore throat. Very curious they don’t mention the previous opioid formulation on their Wikipedia page!
Note that this was about a diseases a little more serious than a little cough. Mostly tuberculosis, also helping with insomnia from the same.
More on that: https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11862675/
Fucking brain, it always comes back to him doesn't it.
I'm really glad my immune system works and works well. I almost never get sick and when I do get sick it's very mild and I almost never have to go to the doctor for help.
the last time I coughed a lot was when there was a wild fire near my town.