Been having this terrible cough for about a week (or maybe more!). And it is extremely irritating because it is more pronounced in the night!
I end up waking myself up with my coughs. If my cough was a person, I’d probably give it a slap for constantly irritating me while I having my oh-so-wonderful dream of XXX and me.
But yes, seriously, it is getting on my nerves because I can’t have a good night’s rest and I end up having headaches in the day because of the lack of rest.
I complained to the guys and they called my cough : Vampire cough.
*cough*
Reason?
It only comes out at night!
-__-””’
I tried western medicine… taking the cough tablets that the doctor prescribed. Not much use… 
And so, I turned to TCM (Traditional Chinese Medication)…
JL passed me 2 packs of ’Heat Explusion’ granules from Eu Yan Sang cos I told him I’ve been having swollen tonsils and its very irritating cos every time I eat/drink, it hurts! Normally, I’ll down a couple cooling drinks such as Jiajia liang cha or some water chestnut drink but I couldn’t take them cos erm, it was the timeofthemonth and from experience, I know I can’t take cooling stuff then.
During this time, my cough got worse.
I finished both packs of the granules and decided to pop down to Eu Yan Sang to get more.
To my surprise, I was taking the wrong meds!
The lady told me I was having a ‘cooling’ cough and I had to take the meds meant for cough instead. And then, she told me:
Since you have cough, avoid chicken, eggs, cooling stuff and cold drinks.
WAH.
I knew about keeping abstinence from chicken if one has cough but didn’t know that eggs are included!
And so, it feels like the bird flu season in Rachel’s life now. No chicken. No eggs.
And oh yes, no cooling stuff.
Now, here comes the dilemma.
My tonsils are still swollen. And I can’t seem to take anything without affecting the cough.
Bleh.
But then again, I have not exactly been a good girl. Hahahha…
I have avoided cold drinks, ice creams(boy do I miss them lah!), fried stuff, chicken, eggs(though sometimes its really inevitable cos there are bits of them in my porriage/noodles), oranges (and mandarins… which I love! Sad to say, I have been sick from CNY so I have not had the opportunity to eat my fav fruit at this time of the year)…
But, I still eat chilli (haha… can’t leave w/o it lah) and indulge in the occasional small piece of bak kua and CNY cookie(1-3 pieces only).
Okay lah…
I shall stop my rantings. I just feel kinda contradicting and decided to rant about it here… cos I’m unable to take cooling stuff due to my cough and at the same time, am unable to take heaty stuff due to my tonsils. Then what can I eatttt?
Haha…
Oh well, might end up visiting good ol’ Doctor Lim again and hear him chide me before giving me my meds. I have a feeling I need antibotics again for the infection in the throat(which I’m not willing to take cos I finished a course of it 3 weeks back!)
(PS: In case you’re wondering why I’m ranting so much, its because in TCM, when you have an ailment, it’s due to having excess cold or heat, so you eat the foods that neutralize the excess. And currently, I don’t know whether I have excess heat or cold. Haha..)
