I HAVE TO TELL YOU A TRUE STORY. In 2019,
I was in a nursing home for rehab for about 7 months.
A sick nurse attended me ( without a mask,) while complaining she was too sick to work
and shouldn't have been called into work in the middle of the night.
Needless to say, 3-4 days later, I was sick, a LOWER respiratory infection ( LUNGS) and getting sicker by the hour.
The first day I OFFICIALLY requested MUCINEX, but the nurses did not tell the Dr. Until he came in the next regular doctors visiting day! Then I wasn't told it was denied until I asked AGAIN where it was!
I told everyone I was ABOUT TO DIE FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO COUGH UP MUCOUS , BLOCKING MY BREATHING!
I got SCARED when the LAST GLOB OF MUCOUS, (THE SIZE OF TWO DOUBLE BUBBLE WADS OF CHEWING GUM)
THAT I WAS ABLE TO CLEAR GOT STUCK TO MY HAND, AND I COULDNT SHAKE IT OFF! It was that sticky.
No wonder I was not able to cough it up!
I had never seen mucous like that.
You must know HOW and WHY "something works",
When I found out the mucinex wasn't coming, I called my daughter, a head nurse in a Mt Vernon WA hospital.
and explained the situation to her.
She called my other daughter, who lives closer to me and ordered her to bring LOTS OF PINEAPPLE JUICE to me, because she had recently attended a head nurses conference where that very problem was addressed! Stickier mucous respiratory patients dying because they asphixiated, actually CHOKING to death on a thicker, sticky wad of mucous that would not move, and couldn't be coughed up!
She said, mucous is just PROTEIN AND WATER. The pineapple juice DISSOLVES THE PROTEIN THAT HOLDS THE MUCOUS TOGETHER! You know, that's the reason YOU CAN'T PUT FRESH PINEAPPLE IN JELLO!
The Jello is gelatin ( protein and water) , and the gelatin ((protein) is dissolved by the pineapple juice!
My other daughter brought the pineapple juice within the hour, and I drank it till I thought I'd pop and was FEELING the mucous lose its grip on me almost immediately! The next morning I had watery mucous easily coughed up!
I KNOW PINEAPPLE JUICE WORKS, AND I KNOW WHY!
Don't even take a chance with anything else, even Mucinex!
The fresh (frozen) pineapple juice has the most BROMELAIN in it,
that's the thing in pineapple juice that dissolves the protein in mucous!
That BROMELAIN IS DESTROYED BY HEAT, so canned pineapple juice has LESS PROTEIN DISSOLVING BROMELAIN than frozen juice, because of the heat of the canning process.