drains from nasal and ear passages better and is easier to cough out faster. I picture the coughing issues as scraping out the junk out of the bottom of the barrel. The sooner I clean that out, the better, so making it more liquid lets my coughing be more productive. I also am pro-active about it. As soon as I feel like being up I go on walks or maybe light jog or jumping because I want help from gravity and movement to break the junk up. I breathe in warm mist in the shower, use Vick’s vapo run to open breathing airways. I rotate how I sit or lay to make it drain from one side to another, or stand enough to make it get to the bottom. The point is I don’t just try to ride it out, but I’m pro-active about it.

This most recent bout with it took my wife over 2 weeks to get rid of. I finished in 3-4 days.