Discover effective day and night remedies and OTC treatments to ease your symptoms. Plus, know when to seek medical help.

Kept awake all night by a cough? We all know that sleep is the best medicine, especially when it comes to recovering from the common cold. But if a nagging cough interrupts your slumber when you need ...

Coughing is enough of a nuisance when it doesn’t impact your sleep, so it’s arguably even more frustrating when you can’t figure out how to stop coughing at night (especially when it seems to worsen ...

When it comes to sleep disruptions, it doesn’t get much worse than the dreaded night cough. If coughing is keeping you up at night, you’re probably frustrated, fatigued and wondering how to put a stop ...

Discover whether the TikTok trend of eating marshmallows to soothe a cough and get some sleep can really work — plus other ...

There are a few reasons your cough may get worse at night when you're battling a virus. Shawn Nasseri, MD, an otorhinolaryngologist based in Beverly Hills, explained that when you lie down, mucus ...

At the end of a long day, you're tired. All you want to do is let your head hit that pillow so you can drift off into a restful and deep sleep. But, no luck. Like clockwork, you're unable to cash in ...

Everyone has a cough from time to time. In fact, coughing can serve a useful purpose by ridding the lungs of irritants or excess mucus. Coughing may also help remove germs from the lungs and prevent ...

Meredith Dietz is Lifehacker’s Senior Staff Writer. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Communications from Northeastern University, where she graduated as valedictorian of her college.

In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, a group of researchers examined the longitudinal association between exposure to electronic cigarette (ECIG) flavors and nocturnal dry cough among ECIG users.

The use of honey to alleviate nocturnal cough was evaluated in a randomized trial of 130 children aged 2-17 years with untreated rhinorrhea and cough for seven days or less (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.

Some people continue coughing after they recover from a common respiratory infection. Doctors explain why a cough can last ...