@nimpnawakproduction replied to your post “This chest cold is making a comeback, and I do NOT appreciate it. I’m...”
If you don't have any inflammatory symptom (like a fever, a sore throat or a.... I don't know the term in english but it's when you sneeze and your snoot has a green color), a productive cough could also mean that your lungs are not used to the pollution around you. I don't know if you lived in a very polluted environnement back in the States or if the pollution is high in Taiwan but that could explain it.
krycek-asks replied to your post “This chest cold is making a comeback, and I do NOT appreciate it. I’m...”
I can confirm the pollution cause, I used to live in Mexico City, moved away to a smaller city, now whenever I go back I get a similar reaction (not that I’ve found any helpful cures, just a doc recommending I suck on an exhaust pipe upon arrival to speed the assimilation process. So, unhelpful. Sorry!)
That was a possibility I hadn’t fully considered! Salt Lake City tends to have fairly good air most of the year, with bouts of super-heavy pollution in the winter which is often the worst in the nation--but only for a few days at a time.
If it is the pollution, though, then it must be because it’s a different kind than I’m used to rather than just air quality as a whole. I’ve never had symptoms like these on SLC’s super unhealthy days, even when it lasted for an unusually long time a couple of years ago--plus none of the other foreign teachers here have had symptoms like mine, and they’ve come from a wide range of places.
Krycek also mentioned allergies, but as far as I know I’m not allergic to anything. I’m thinking of trying an antihistamine to see if it helps--but more than anything I’d like to see a doctor, just in case. If this is part of getting used to Taiwan, that’s fine--but if it isn’t, then I might be able to do something about it. We’ll see!