Yes, that's the effect with me. More mucus, more coughing of the crap out. Expectorant. In the meantime, you can buy "expectorants" at the drug store.
No disrespect to any medicos here, but they are as subject to fad and fashion as any of us. As Mrs. Cooper, Sheldon Cooper's Mom says, "Oh, those doctors. One week bacon grease is bad for you, the next week, you can't get enough of it." (A paraquote, not guaranteed to be word-for-word accurate.)
One wonders, too, how much of the science is bought and paid for.
It's been a while, but they used to prescribe mercury* and bloodletting, too. And, more lately, electroshock therapy.
And here's one to trigger some reactions: homosexuality seems to keep going on and off the diagnostic manuals as an illness.
There seem to be some theopolitical variables involved in that science.
Go figure.
Terry, 230RN
* It's still under debate whether Beethoven died because of mercury poisoning. I don't remember what the last authoritative pontification on that was. Oh,wait.... no, it was lead poisoning that caused his deafness, right?
