An experienced paediatrician, who healed patients long before the antibiotic era, advised to treat my daughter’s croup coughing fits during colds with carefully dosed promethazine and dihydrocodein, a combination that worked every time.
Three years ago I managed to successfully treat coughing fits in an adult woman who suffered fits of suffocation during (probably) existing whooping cough.
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