Question: My 6 yr old feels tickling over chest and teeth;was on medicine for fever and cold;Any treatment /cause known? She had fever 2 weeks ago. Ayurvedic doc said that medicine for cold has suppressed the cold and kud be causing the tickling. She lives near a highly polluted area where they burn all sorts of city's garbage and hence covered by thick clouds of smoke. She had this tickling sensation b4 too on other body parts like forehead etc. Sounds very strange problem. docs are unable to explain. Does anyone know about this problem and knows a cure to help my little one?

Answer: not a doctor, but I guess that the teeth is like the feeling you get when your leg falls asleep and then blood rushed in and it feels weird.  As an adult it sucks, but as a kid it felt cool!  I think the nerve in the mouth is shallow and the and the antitussive is numbing them and the sensation she feels is feeling coming back.  Second the chest could be the same thing.  It probably the flem in the esophagus sliding back in to the lungs tickling the hairs/fimbrea that normally sweep up toward the mouth.  Or it could be an allergic reaction.  I get that same "tickling" when I eat a certain type of salsa.  I think its the preservatives.\nI am all about the herbals, but I'd rather try over the counter if my kid is having a reaction to herbal meds.
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