Question regarding cough suppressants.

[Paracelsus]

As far as I know, cough suppressants are medicines used for symptomatic treatment of dry, unproductive cough. They include codeine and dextromethorphan (DXM). Theoretically, they make the cough less painful.

One of the first commonly used cough suppressants was codeine.
SWIM remembers when he was in high school he once got transfered (moved to another high school) and it was a bad experience to SWIM. Out of nowhere, a VERY bad dry cough tortured SWIM more than a month, starting with the first day at the new school. SWIM was in prefect health, but every 30 minutes he had to cough very hard for a minute or so. There was no organic reason for his cough. So SWIMs dad decided to give lil' swimmy codeine (later, swim found out that it was actually dihydrocodeine), medicinal dosage of course. It did NOTHING.

I have also read a lot of suggestions that DXM may not work as a cough suppressant. (try looking in the DXM forum). DXM didn't work for SWIM, too.

My question is: Are there any cough suppressants that actually WORK? If so, please post...

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