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Episode: 0749 – Why Cough Sweets Are A Con
Description: 2023.01.19 – 0749 – Why Cough Sweets Are A ConFirst up, it’s important to realise that nothing you swallow touches your vocal folds. Yep, those soothing cough sweets you take for example, go nowhere near them and any help they might give is either somewhere else in the vocal tract, or simply psychosomatic. (Indeed, as we’ll see later, such lozenges may actually be causing other problems!). I mean it stands to reason doesn’t it?: your voice comes from air from your lungs passing over your vocal cords, so logically (and physio-logically) anything you swallow can’t also pass ov...