The advantages of home remedies for common illnesses like cough.

 Getting a cough because of change of weather or low immunity is extremely common, but that does not make it easy to get through. Daily life becomes difficult with a nagging cough and cold accompanied with chest pains.  Cough can even give you sleepless nights, causing your entire day to get ruined. Conventional cough medicines are very strong and most syrups cause you to feel very drowsy, thereby ruining your day anyways. One alternative you can try is curing it through things you can easily find in your home.  Curing it through natural remedies is the best thing you can do because it has absolutely no side effects and does not let any chemicals get into your system. Home remedies are often the best remedies, especially when it comes to common disease like cough and cold.

 Cough can be acute or chronic, and depending on how severe it is, you should decide what kind of medication to take for it.  If your cough is extremely severe and you are experiencing chills and body aches and many such troubling symptoms, then you should consider going in for medicines that can provide instant relief of those symptoms.  However if it is not so severe, for cough home remedy can slowly and gently alleviate symptoms and help you regain your health. Thus, the severity of cough should be the deciding factor of whether to take home remedies or not.

 If your cough is chronic and keeps coming back for no particular reason, then it might be a sign of some other underlying medical issue.  During such circumstances you must take the advice of a medical expert and not rely on home remedies alone.  Get a check up done from a qualified professional to rule out other more serious diseases.

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 Avoid cold or cooling foods to ensure that your throat does not get aggravated further. Also, you must avoid oily foods because they tend to make the cough worse.  For home remedies to work best, you must also exercise precaution during the day by avoiding foods and activities that make the cough worse.This will ensure that your home remedy works well and you can get better in no time.  Be sure to start these home remedies as soon as you feel like you are going to fall sick, this way you have a chance to be cured before you actually fall sick.You can do this because home remedies have no side effects.  So you can be cured before you even fall sick.