Treating coughs in children: don’t use cough medicine, but honey
may help  December 4, 2013  |  General  |  No Comments  I’ve
written about this before, but it’s well worth doing it again.
It’s once more cold season, bringing up the question parents
commonly face: Should they buy one of those rows and rows of
cough, sneeze, and runny nose medicines one finds in every drug
store and supermarket? In a nushell, no — none of
the preparations sold over-the-counter to treat
upper respiratory infections in children work, and all could be
dangerous. That’s the conclusion of a report some years ago by
the Food and Drug Administration, one still worth reading. You
can read about the details, as well as the history of how and
why these cold remedies were regulated in the past, here.  There
is a huge market for these products. Ninety-five million
packages of them are sold each year, and drug companies spend
millions of dollars marketing them in various ways. The
implication of the advertising is that these preparations (