Feb 4, 09 | Posted by: David Melbye, M.D.
What’s a parent to do? More on VapoRub
With so much recent info about children’s cough and cold medicines, including VapoRub, it leaves parents wondering what exactly they can do for their children who are sniffling, sneezing, and coughing.
An article I was asked to contribute to, Watchful Waiting, in Tuesday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel addresses this very issue.
Unfortunately, even though your child is miserable (and so are you) the best remedy is to comfort your child, offer fluids, use saline drops and nasal suctioning, run a cool mist vaporizer in the room when they are sleeping and give them Tylenol or ibuprofen if they seem uncomfortable or have a fever.
For the most part you need to ride out the symptoms but call us if your child develops new fevers 4-5 days into the illness, is wheezing, having trouble breathing, refusing to drink, or just doesn’t seem to be getting better after a week or so.
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February 9th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Better to not get sick. You might want to recommend this to your readers. We had great success with it and have not had illnesses spreading through our family in a while
http://www.germywormy.com
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February 11th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Why the sudden fuss around cold medicines. Is it because of the overdoses in the news a while ago?