concerned17,
If you do a google search for salt inhaler, you'll find a lot of information about a good way to help respiratory problems.
This is a ceramic tube holding salt crystals, and you inhale air that flows through the salt, picking up salt ions. Breathing this into the lungs helps to kill bacteria.
I know of several people on another health board who have used this with good results for their asthma, allergies, and coughs.
Carol
have you looked into the possiblity of asthama?