Help!! That tickling cough... any remedies for a toddler?

[Katters]

A mum at my early intervention Playgroup on tues solved this for me! She said I still have mucous on the lungs that needs to be broken down, I need to take a round of steroids and have an asthma puffer on hand. I told her that seems a bit extreme and she shrugged and told me to enjoy my cough then :P she's a hospital mum so it's probably pretty accurate.. Or you could have someone break the phlegm up by pounding your back. I think physios are the ones who do that.

[OceanPrincess]

Warm apple juice, apparently relaxes the throat so they don't get the urge to cough. Told to me just now by a medibank private nurse when I rang their health line asking about DS2's cough.

[Cass72]

Chop up an onion and leave it in the room. Smelly, but it works. I know of one lady who used to make a poultice and put the the chopped onion in a muslin bag and either put in socks or on their chest (front or back).