January 11, 2012 11:35 AM
Cough cure: Vicks on feet
This is a rerun of a post from nearly four years ago that has drawn thousands of visits and 94 comments. The overwhelming majority say Vicks on the feet stops an otherwise unstoppable cough. If you don't have Vicks in your winter arsenal, you may want to get some. Then remember to use it when you need to and feel free to leave a comment on how it worked.
I first heard about this when Maddy had a cough a week before her competition and two of her teachers told her to rub Vicks on her feet before she went to bed. Did some research to find that this is all over the Internet and even Snopes doesn't know whether to judge it true or false.But there is lots of anecdotal evidence from moms that it works:
I received an email recently about how doctor's found great results in reducing a child's night time cough by rubbing Vicks Vapor Rub on their feet, then putting the kid's socks on, and letting them go to bed. Now this email stated that not only were they getting good results, but the Vicks technique was working 100% of the time. Hmmmmmm, Time to testI have a young child and now that we are entering the cold season I figured I would have the opportunity to test this method out. Well, the doctors were right. One night I woke hearing my child coughing steadily in his sleep. Remembering the email that I received a few days earlier I decided to give the Vicks a shot. I went into his room and started applying the Vicks. Now, my child is a very sound sleeper and will sleep through anything, so me applying the Vicks to his feet did not even begin to stir him from his deep slumber. I tell you this because the results were amazing. After I applied the Vicks, but before the socks were even on I noticed that his coughing subsided and his breathing was deeper. I wanted to think that this was due to the fact that I had woken him up and he was simply not coughing 'at that moment'. That wasn't the case. He had literally stopped coughing all together.
I went to bed that night and was questioned by my child during breakfast on how the socks arrived on his feet in the middle of the night... he didn't even know.
The skeptic that I am was amazed, but still thought that it was just luck. Needless to say a couple nights later my child was coughing after a long Halloween night. Immediately I went for the Vicks Vapor Rub. Again, the coughing stopped upon application. I can't believe how well this works, but I wanted to share it with other parents out there knowing that a good night's sleep is like gold!
by Trina at Alternative Medicines Direct
Anyone out there have any personal experience? If not, do you think you might try it sometime? We have and it has cleared the most persistent cough. I was brought up on Vicks and returned to using it a couple years as my remedy-of-choice - at least on the chest. Now for coughs we're doing feet too!
Love,
Comments
Now don't laugh but...I actually tried this last week. Our kids both got a doosey of a cold two weeks ago but my youngest, as usual, ended up with a lingering cough that was non-stop at night. One night the coughing was worse than it had been and I thought, "he's never going to get any sleep!" I figured I'd try the Vicks on the feet thing. Our youngest hates having Vicks on his chest so we went for the feet and covered up his feet with socks (he thought this was pretty funn!). I went downstairs and waited. He coughed one more time and then was silent for the rest of the night! No kidding!! I'd need to try this more than once to be sure but I've talked to a few other friends at church and they've heard of it and also claim it works! His room did smell like Vicks when I went to check on him so I'm assuming that the vapors, wrapped up in warm socks, must have the same effect as putting it on their chests. I guess...I don't know for sure but I do know that we all had a wonderful night sleep the night I used Vicks!! :-) I'm sure it wouldn't work for something more serious, like broncitis, but seems to work like a charm for the cough that comes with a cold! Definitely try it!
Posted by: Kim | January 12, 2012 8:48 AM
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