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about a week or less but to make it last for i little bit take a cough drop or after a gargle with warm salt water, take a few drops of grinded basil leaf with some juice of ginger mixed in a spoon of honey.You will be relieved of a irritating cough for the night's take some powdered white pepper in a spoon of honey to calm down your throat. I ALSO SUGGEST THAT I WOULDN'T BE EATING MILK PRODUCTS LIKE ICE CREAM OR THE MUCUS WILL STAY LONGER IN YOUR THROAT

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It will work Fast if you eat vegetables or Non-Cholesterol foods to help medicine works fast.

but if you don't eat well vegetable and rice, it won't work fast.

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Any cough that last more than a week to ten days, even with an upper respiratory infection, needs a doctors attention. You may have developed a chronic condition.

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depends on the virus. without a swab or the right scientific equipment you cannot tell what virus it is therefore you cannot judge how long the virus will stay in your body

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