children, cough medicine, cough syrup, cough treatments
As winter approaches, many parents will be bracing for the cold and flu season and reaching for a bottle of cough syrup. Young children typically get at least six colds a year. But we now know cough syrups aren’t very effective at treating children’s coughs. And amid mounting evidence of harm from poisoning and deaths, ...
[Note: Pholcodine is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the United States.] Cough medicines containing the active ingredient pholcodine are being withdrawn from sale due to safety concerns highlighted for years both in Australia and internationally. On February 27, Australia’s medicines regulator announced the immediate registration cancellation and ...
As more research is done regarding so-called non-traditional healthcare, doctors and scientists are rediscovering old treatments that are increasingly supplanting today’s standard treatments with antibiotics for a number of conditions. That includes coughs that often accompany the flu or mild chest infections, according to a recently published study in the journal Lancet. Effectiveness of antibiotics has ...