The best way to look after your voice in the winter season.

• Firstly check that you sleep with a window open. This allows the fresh air to circulate, much like breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth- as you know the nose hairs filter the air. So go and open a window.

• Secondly if you have a chest infection sleep with extra pillows. This allows you to sleep and stops you coughing all night and therefore protects your vocal folds.

• Thirdly steam if you have a head cold or sauna if you have a chest cold. wet heat on stuffy noses and dry heat wet chesty phlegm. this will allow you cough up that nasty stuff with ease.

• Fourthly do some lip trills or horse lips to flick the phlegm off your vocal folds.

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