Bad Cough? Try Vics Vapor Rub on Your Feet!
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:26 am
Use Vick's Vapo Rub for Cough
* Link Unavailable. This site is no longer active and available to view on line. But the info was good and we wanted to keep sharing it!
Originally posted by (Sunshine) on PlanforPandemic
I am probably nuts to put this here, and boy would my husband kill me because he's a doctor and he's not wild about home remedies, but I've tested this out on 6 moms and all 6 moms have reported 100% positive results.
I had an e-mail from a friend who said if you've got a really bad cough and can't sleep at night to put Vick's Vapo Rub on your feet, put socks on over it, then get under the covers. Most of my friends and my cousin with twins had kids up all night coughing so I forwarded it to them. Every single one of them said that it was amazing, within about 10-15 minutes their kids were sleeping and not coughing. My cousin with the twins told me her and her hubby kept getting up to check on them because they were so quiet!
I went and bought another couple of things of vapo rub to store on hand as my attitude is anything that if that works as well as folks are telling me it is, is worth my having as a back up. I told my husband about it, but I think if he told his patients to go home and rub Vicks on their feet, with socks and go to bed they'd think he'd lost it. (He doesn't support it or refute it as we've not personally had a chance to test it and of course he's not seen anything medically proving this method works. I'm stressing this is a home-made cough remedy.)