Cruisers Cough – Remedies!!
As I am sat here coughing and spluttering everywhere and trying to find inspiration for my blog this week I thought why not discuss whether there is such a thing as a cruisers cough and if so how do we stop it.
I have spoken to several clients over the past few years who have all claimed to pick up a “Cruise Cough” on board their cruises. Many of them blame the air conditioning for it and I do think this has a big part to play as it seems to dry up the air. I have just returned from our Christmas conference and the hotel we stayed in had air conditioning. I had a cough to start however it is now about ten times worse.
Air conditioning must play a part but also so does the sheer number of people that travel on a cruise and with confined spaces a cough can quickly spread.
Here are the top five remedies that I have taken from our cruise forum.
– Balcony door left open for fresh air.
– Wet flannel in the room.
– Ice Bucket.
-Nasal spray and vaseline.
– Vicks vapour rub on the soles of your feet.
So far I have tried the balcony door open and the fiery feet and I have to say I still had a cough.
Do you have any suggestions or do you think a cruisers cough is all in the mind? Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
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I take an atomiser/mister with me and each evening i’ll mist the air with very fine water vapour. It seems to help stop the tubes from drying out and helps ward off the worst of the dry cough – although it won’t, of course, stop a cold from developing when there’s so many people to catch it from.
Yes, I think there is a “cruiser’s cough” and I think it is very hard to get rid of. After two cruises were made very much less enjoyable, I went to my GP. He said I had late onset asthma, and treated it (successfully at the time) with hefty doses of antibiotics, statins and then the usual preventive twice daily asthma inhaler. Now the GP agrees I do not have asthma at all, so no real explanation for the hoarseness, wheezing and heavy catarrh in my throat.
I have been home over a week from a cruise to the Canary Islands after a few days on the ship I started with a cough have now been home a week still coughing after a bottle of cough mixture I think it is the air conditioning – but no remedy
I too had the dreaded cough. A kind lady from NewZealand gave me some liquorice to suck on. This really helped.
WE had cruises cough + chronic sore throat this year on the AOS never had it before yet this was the first balcony we have had