Q: My mother-in-law always used to swear by Vicks on the bottom of the feet for a cough. I thought that was ludicrous. Mom might have been right after all. I have an upper respiratory virus and ...

Q. I tried putting Vicks VapoRub on the soles of my feet to calm a cough last night. It did absolutely nothing for me. If anything, my cough got worse. My feet felt like they were on fire, and the ...

While putting Vicks VapoRub on your feel cannot cure cold symptoms, using it as intended may help you feel better. Vicks VapoRub is an ointment that you can use on your skin. The manufacturer ...

It started with a tickle in the back of my throat. Before I knew it, that tickle developed into a big-time cough that sent me to bed for five days and bedeviled me for more than two weeks. I tried ...

There is no scientific proof that putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet will help ease a cough and other cold symptoms. However, there is some evidence that putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet with socks ...

Q: I have had a hacking cough for more than a week. Consequently, I've had no sleep at all and had horrible pains in my chest and sides from the endless cough, cough, cough. I had heard about putting ...

Where Vicks VapoRub Can Help (and Where It Can't) Getty Images Medically reviewed by Elizabeth Molina Ortiz, MD, MPH There is no scientific proof that putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet will help ease ...

When I first heard about the Vicks VapoRub trick for stopping a child’s cough, I thought it must just be an old wives’ tale. Something as simple as rubbing some Vicks on your kid’s feet and then ...

Dear Dr. Gott: At the age of 19, I inherited an ailment from my father and fought it for more than 50 years. My sister and her daughter developed the same problem at age 15. My affliction was long, ...

When it comes to my feet, I like to make sure that they are always in tip-top shape. There are so many potential health problems that can afflict the feet — like ingrown toenails, bunions, blisters, ...