Can’t sleep for coughing - any tips please?

Could be a postnasal drip starting the cough reflex. My only suggestion is hot drinks and sitting well propped up with pillows. Hope you feel better soon. ?

Covonia Night Time is excellent. It has to be asked for over the counter in a Pharmacy to get the full strength version. One swig and I don't cough all night.
I hope you will improve soon.

Vicks (or other) vapour rub on my chest, so that I can breathe the fumes, does it for me. I've also heard that if you put it on the soles of your feet it can work in some mysterious way.

When my Dh had a dreadful cough that was keeping us awake at night the doctor prescribed nasal sprays. We were baffled by that but 'bingo' it did the the trick!

One was an anti-allergy spray, the other a simple saline spray.

Night Nurse liquid works for me

Steam is great , with a warm drink. You can of course put vics vapour rub in the steam water. I got a little steam inhaler from Boots .

I know you'll think I'm making it up but eating chocolate will help stop a cough. That's all we use in our family. And most weeks I eat some as a precautionary measure (Ha ha). You need to have a small bar, not just one cube.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/wellness/news/a36300/cough-cure-chocolate/

Thank you all, the chocolate one sounds the best lol. I have the nasal spray, the vicks and the chocolates to try tonight, hopefully will get some zzzzzzzzzz’s

Bronchostop

Chocolate starts me off coughing!!It must irritate my throat.

However, that doesn't put me off

I bought an Olbas nasal spray today for DH as I think his irritating cough may be caused by "nasal drip".

Pholcodine (maybe phlocodine?) is really good for the night time coughs.
It can be found behind the counter in Boots.

I had the horrible cough which has been going around and came across something new that was completely wonderful - a product called Kaloba, Pelargonium cough and cold relief syrup. It came from Holland and Barrett. Apparently pelargonium is a traditional remedy for coughs and it did the trick for me. Hope that helps someone.

Katiekrunch I can sympathise, nothing worse awake all night and knackered all day!

Chocolate cheese or anything creamy exacerbates my night time cough so I avoid after about 4pm.
I sometimes take a piriton.

I have found hot drink at bedtime made from lemon, ginger and honey in hot water also helps.

I still require several pillows and a plenty of water at the ready.

Raised pillows.

Try cider vinegar diluted with water sipped when the cough strikes. Keep it ready by the bedside.

Slice an onion thinly, cover it with brown sugar and let it stand weighed down with a saucer. The resulting juice is to be taken with a teaspoon.

If you make it up in the morning, it will be ready to take at bedtime.

This is my grandmother's recipe for dealing with an obstinate cough.

Daddy (she was his mother) and I agreed it worked by scaring the cough to death, as it tastes revolting, even when you have a heavy cold, so you stopped coughing in order not to have to take any more of it.

I does work though, I have forced myself to take it as an adult.

Well last night was another big fail, I really need some quality sleep, JE65, that sounds like witchcraft lol. I am off for a bottle of cough med today and will dose up on Sleep Aid as well. Good job I only have a Christmas Party to go to this afternoon. I am so fed up of looking like death warmed up, I am pasty faced as it is, but this look is not pretty, well it is, pretty awful!

Covonia or Buttercup syrup are very good, also rub Vicks on the soles of your feet and cover with socks , I know that this sounds strange but it does work, goodness knows how !

This is going to sound weird.....but it works! Rub a generous amount of Vicks on the soles of the feet and put on a pair of socks before you go to sleep.
Give it a try!

Ahh Ive just seen Joelise's post. Should have read to the end of the posts!

Ive bought Mucus cough med and I am now hunting through the medicine cabinet for vicks for my feet! Thank you for your tips x

Eucalyptus oil helps. It’s clears your airways.
But sometimes a cough can take weeks to clear, though take heart. It will go eventually.

Boots Night Time Cough Relief. It works a treat and puts you to sleep too. Only behind the counter and sometimes they are out of stock.

When I was in hospital with pneumonia they gave me codeine to stop me coughing. I still use it now and it always works. Does cause constipation though.