I have always been someone who coughs.
- Winter, Spring, Summer and fall, I have a phlegmy cough.
There never seems to absolutely be anything wrong with me, but the cough is annoying. I have had this kind of persistent cough for years, and I just figured it’s the way I am. Then, I discovered that the cough is really flu symptoms! I had never thought of that before. The nurse asked me if I have an air cleaner, and I looked at him love he was from Venus. No, I live in a rented house. I am fortunate I have a/c much less an air cleaner. My property owner is nice, but he’s not going to get a bunch of Heating and Air Conditioning extras for me. So, then, I found out that the cooling system air filters I have always used absolutely aren’t any good. You know, I use those red one’s, and I figured an air filter is an air filter, right? Well, no. It turns out that those red fiberglass cooling system filters are essentially useless for people. Their purpose is to help protect the cooling system unit, not the people in the house. And they don’t absolutely do all that much for the cooling system, either. My nurse advocated that if I don’t want to get a whole condo air cleaner, I should at least get nice cooling system air filters. He advocated that I get HEPA filters and just see if I seem to cough less. Well, I still cough periodically, even though I do manage to sleep all evening without waking up from coughing all evening long. My flu symptom symptoms do indeed seem to be reduced by HEPA air filters.