Johns Hopkins Health - Read This Before Giving Your Kids Cold or Flu Medication

Although you don’t want to see your children suffer during a bout of cold or flu, be careful how you provide  symptom relief, particularly if you use   over-the-counter, or OTC, medications without a doctor’s direction.

“There has never been a study showing that over-the-counter cough and cold medications work in children,” says David Tunkel, M.D., director of pediatric otolaryngology (also called ear, nose and throat, or ENT) at Johns Hopkins. So, instead of giving your kids decongestants and cough syrups, consider using simple remedies such as honey (for kids age 1 and older) to relieve a cough or sore throat, a humidifier, or saltwater drops to ease nasal congestion.

via hopkinsmedicine.org

Use caution when treating your children for cold and flu symptoms. This article will give you useful information should your children exhibit symptoms.