Dry coughs pose several terrible dilemmas – losing sleep due to throat tickles, sudden coughing fits in public and sore throats from hacking coughs among them.
There’s no doubt that you want to nip your illness in the bud, get back to sleeping soundly, and stop alarming people around you on the bus. But how?
Below, we’ll share how to get rid of a dry cough using tips, tricks, and a few Buckley’s cough and cold medicine products.
A dry cough is commonly accompanied by tickling in the throat. When the itchy tickle causes you to cough, you won’t produce any mucus like you would with a wet cough.
Dry coughs can arise due to:
Sometimes, a dry cough can progress from mildly irritating to exhausting. Coughing can keep you up at night, leave you fatigued all day, and even cause dizziness, nausea and body aches. So take care of yourself, stay at home if you can, and take a look at our tips for relieving your cough below.
Fed up dealing with a dry, tickly, scratchy throat? Here at Buckley’s, we have a few ideas on how to stop a cough and help you feel better. Learn about your medicinal and self-care options for soothing a dry cough:
Relieve hacking coughs and irritated throats with cough syrup. We recommend Buckley’s Dry Cough Extra Strength syrup for up to 8 hours of cough-suppressing relief; or Buckley’s Original Mixture Nighttime cough syrup before bed to help you get some rest.
Don’t like syrups? Get your dose of dry cough medicine in liquid gel or caplet format – simply swallow with water.
Our Buckley’s Cold & Sinus Liquid Gels for Day & Night provide fast relief from a dry cough and sore throat in a double pack of non-drowsy cold medicine for daytime and nighttime liquid gels to keep you going around the clock. Alternatively, try our Complete Cough, Cold & Flu Extra Strength caplets to relieve achiness, pains and that dreaded dry cough when you’re feeling under the weather.
When you’re well enough to be out and about, a pack of lozenges can help keep your cough at bay while you go on with your day. Sucking a hard lozenge promotes saliva production, keeping your throat moist and soothing irritation.
Buckley’s lozenges come in three tasty flavours: Bite-me Cherry, Menthol Outburst, and Buzz Off Honey Lemon. Whether you prefer your cough medicines fruity or refreshing, you’ve got options that both satisfy your tastebuds and calm your tickly throat.
As annoying as they are, coughs usually aren’t life-threatening and don’t require a doctor – but they can take up to 3 or 4 weeks to clear up on their own.
Alongside using your Buckley’s cough medicines, syrups and lozenges, other ways to treat a nasty cough include:
