Thursday, January 15, 2009

A remedy your grandma never suggested:

Indoor air in winter in Minnesota has a moisture content lower than the Sahara. The furnace is on, doors and windows are sealed against the cold, and static shocks are a fact of life.
Breathing that air makes your throat dry, and you wake at night with a dry cough that seems to propagate itself. What to do?

I found sugarless gum works! It doesn't melt like a coughdrop, it keeps saliva flowing just a bit, and you wake with nice minty breath!

You're welcome!

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:46 AM

    Sugarless gum can also fall down your throat while you're sleeping and choke you. If you're lucky, you'll cough alot first though. And then there you go.

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  2. True, Anonymous! But then, we were ALSO always told, 'you'll put someones eye out', and there are very few one-eyed kids...so I'm willing to risk the evil of gum in bed...lol

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  3. Anonymous6:55 AM

    Yah but that's because those kids weren't chewing on sticks in their sleep so ha!

    Oh wait - that made sense when I typed it....

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  4. Ok, it's a few days later now--the gum trick worked that first night, but I think it was only cuz I was coming down with a cold.

    I only THOUGHT it was dry air...lol

    And I admit, I never sleep on my back cuz I get a headache from it, so the gum and my throat are more-or-less safe from one-another.

    THERE. Confession(s) are good, right?

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  5. Anonymous5:27 AM

    I was thinkin' ah tryin' a minty-fresh Life saver. While I sleep. It's perfection in it's simplicity because, should the item slip down my throat in the night, I can retrieve it via the length of thread or fishing line I will have tied onto it ahead of time.

    I gotta million ah these kindsa idears!
    Larry

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