Hi Dorrie,

I have found that one of the best and natural ways to get rid of phlegm is to use a saline nose spray. You would be amazed at how much mucus you can get out of your little nose!! A product that works great is called AYR saline nasal mist. It is OTC and sold at all drug stores and many supermarkets. It gives a large amount of spray in each squeeze..... it can be a bit sloppy....... but it can be used as often as needed without any adverse side effects.

The best way to use nasal spray is to give the product a good shake, insert the nose piece into one nostril comfortably at a time and squeeze. To avoid contaminating the remainder of the spray with mucus, DO NOT release the squeeze until you have removed it from the nostril.

My family has used this product for years and has had little to no problem with that ropey phlegm and coughing jags. It is also a good idea to keep some in the medicine cabinet (no sharing with anyone else :-)) for the onset of a cold because it works great!

I don't know if you already know this but a great natural antibiotic is garlic. If you can eat it in it's purest form all the better to fight infection. But if not, then KWAI or Kyolic make great products.

Sure hope you feel better soon!!

Bryanna ~'.'~

those pesky 'paraneoplastic' syndromes! They are RARE, REALLY Rare!
I've got CIDP = 1-50,000 to get, then combine the Cancer w/the CIDP that number changes to like 1-1,500,000 ?
So, that I wasn't tested, I've no regrets about, the docs were dealing with the IMMEDIATE ISSUE! Ironically, the cancer I got? It seems that the CIDP treatments I get, IVIG, tend to encapsulate some cancers and that's what had happened to me... I believe, tho there was only one small trial done and it was soo close to my own history it was twilight zone time? No proof tho, so, no facts to connect those dots.

Back to the issue of phlegm? I agree with Bryanna about saline sprays! They are simple solutions and not DRUGS for those who hate that concept. I also am prescribed Nasonex [what I call Nose-Teflon] which coats the nose and keeps some irritants from getting in those passages. It can help some? But before committing? Ask for samples, get the script and then READ the prescribing info to see if this med and others are compatable.... some are not.

I wake up each AM and glorb/glarb up gunk for a while-then settle down. It goes with sinusitis, allergies and a house [that while declared free]- is a allergy incubator. As long as the stuff is clear? I'm OK!

Hey! We all go on, we get by AND we survive! Let all of us beat the odds!
Hugs and hope to all! - j