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Mon, 08 Dec 2008
Coughing up blood
Normally, those would not be the search terms I would plug into Google, first thing in the morning. But they were appropriate, today.
Because that was what was happening.
When I was younger, I used to have asthma and, as part of that, I would invariably contract bronchitis periodicially.
Over the past years, even though my asthma has receeded, I would still get bronchitis at the interface between seasons. It did not matter if the season change was hot to cool, or cool to hot. Whatever the change, I would get it.
I've been used to this. It is, in it's own way, comforting. I can watch the seasons change, and notice that are changing earlier. It's like I have an in-built global warming detector!
This latest bout came on about 3 weeks ago. So, as usual, I thought nothing of it, bought my normal supply of strepsils and went about my life.
It was not until I was doing some training, and was left exhausted and wondering why that I decided to head to the doctor. He could not hear anything wrong with my lungs.
We did a few peak flow tests; my best of 3 being 250. Typical values for a health person are 600+.
His conclusion: ‘Your asthma has recurred.’.
A week later and I am still short of breath, but also coughing up blood. So after some searching on the interwebs, it appears that this can be normal with excessive coughing. And that the best ways to control excessive coughing are: codine1 (paracetamol / panadol) and chocolate 2
So, I've been indulging myself in both.
I'm off to get a chest X-Ray just in case this is more serious and the blood re-appears tomorrow. But now you know that chocolate is good for you (and your cough).
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